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Pepperidge Farm Incorporated is an American commercial bakery founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand after her family's 123-acre farm property in Fairfield, Connecticut, [1] which had been named for the pepperidge tree. A subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company since 1961, it is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
In 1925 it bought Taggart Baking Company, the maker of Wonder Bread, and became the largest commercial bakery in the United States. [9] [10] Twinkie snack cakes were invented in 1930 in Schiller Park, Illinois, by James Alexander Dewar, a baker at Continental Baking Company. Continental was based in New York from 1923 to 1984. [11]
Construction began in 1864 just west of the Norwalk River in Norwalk and was completed four years later. Designed by European-trained, New York-based architect Detlef Lienau , the 44,000 square feet (4,100 m 2 ) mansion features 26,402 square feet (2,452.8 m 2 ) of living space [ 3 ] and "is considered his most significant surviving work ...
The city, part of the New York Metropolitan Area, is the sixth-most populous city in Connecticut as of the 2020 census, with a population of 91,184. [5] Norwalk is on the northern shore of the Long Island Sound, & was first settled in 1649. Norwalk is included in the 18 towns/cities that make up the Western Connecticut Planning Region. [6]
The company went out of business and closed the bakery in 1995, [12] partly due to the cost of maintaining the outdated facility. [11] At the time, it was one of the last independent bakeries in the New York area. [11] A connected warehouse at 808 Pacific Street was used for a self-storage business as late as 2007. [13]
The former Norwalk City Hall, located in South Norwalk was built in 1912. The building has since been added, on March 23, 1995, to the National Register of Historic Places . Norwalk's city hall is now located at 125 East Avenue.
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Arthur Canfield Wheeler (August 26, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was a two-term Republican [3] mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1895 to 1896. He was a manufacturer of straw hats for over thirty years. He was a manufacturer of straw hats for over thirty years.