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The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but about half of the original borough as it was first incorporated in 1824. The local historic district was smaller, but the Ram's Pasture and another property were added in 2009. The district has a governance structure. [2]
The Borough of Newtown occupies about 1,252 acres (5.07 km 2) (or roughly two square miles) in the central part of town. Incorporated in 1824 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly, it is one of only nine remaining boroughs in the state. The borough adopted zoning for the town center long before the rest of the community.
Antiques and The Arts Weekly was founded in 1963 by R. Scudder Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee, a newspaper covering Newtown, Connecticut that was founded by Smith's grandfather in 1877. [ 2 ] in 1988 the Weekly had a paid circulation of 23,000 in Europe, Canada and the United States. [ 2 ]
Newtown Meeting House served as the town's Congregational Church for many years. The town of Newtown, originally known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. In 1708, 36 Connecticut Englishmen petitioned the General Assembly to settle an area north of Stratford (at least seven men previously had been given permission ...
Newtown (/ ˈ n u t aʊ n / NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,173. [3] The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning ...
The Newtown Bee is a weekly newspaper for Newtown, Connecticut. Founded by John T. Pearce [1] in 1877, the Bee has been published continuously by the Smith family. [2] The Bee is owned by Bee Publishing Company. [2] The company also publishes Antiques and the Arts Weekly.
Sandy Hook is a village in the town of Newtown, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1711. It was listed as a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census . [ 1 ] According to the United States Census Bureau in 2021, it has a population of 9,114.
Newtown, Connecticut, incorporated Town in Fairfield County Site of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, the fourth deadliest mass shooting in American history. Newtown (borough), Connecticut, incorporated Borough in Fairfield County; Newtown (Palatka), a neighborhood of Palatka, Florida; Newtown (Sarasota, Florida) Newtown, Illinois