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Before 1912 the town had two train stations: one in the Iron Works District, near the present Brookfield Market and, second, Brookfield Junction station, near the corner of Junction Road and Stony Hill Road. Young people used the train to attend high school in Danbury. [7]
The area that is now Brookfield was settled about 1700, and was given its own parish in 1754, formed out of portions of Danbury, New Milford, and Newtown. It was incorporated in 1788. The road junction was where the first church, town hall, school, and tavern were built.
Brookfield Junction was a station on the main line of the Housatonic Railroad and later the Pittsfield Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. Opened in 1869, the station was originally located on Stony Hill Road in the southern part of Brookfield, Connecticut. The station was closed in 1925 and was later demolished in the 1930s.
The Western Connecticut Academy of International Studies is a magnet school in Danbury, Connecticut, that students (Grades K–5) from Brookfield are accepted into. Students to this school are also accepted from Bethel, Redding, Ridgefield, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, and other regional communities.
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The Brookfield station was located in the Iron works district of Brookfield, today known as "Four Corners" or the "Town Center District". The station was designed to be used for both passenger and freight service. On September 24, 1868, a second station had opened on Stony Hill Road that was known as "Brookfield Junction".
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Brookfield Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It includes the 43-acre (17 ha) Brookfield Center Historic District around the intersection of Connecticut Routes 25 and 133 , as well as surrounding residential neighborhoods.