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Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ʌ k / NOR-fuhk) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region .
Joseph Battell (April 17, 1806 – July 8, 1874) was a businessman and benefactor of Yale University. Battell was born to Joseph Battell (1774–1841) and Sarah Robbins. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1824 before moving to New York City. [1] Battell's sister, Irene Battell, married Yale professor William Augustus Larned.
The Norfolk Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of Norfolk, Connecticut.Centered around a triangular green at the junction of United States Route 44 and Connecticut Route 272, it is a well-preserved late 19th to early 20th-century town center, with a number of architecturally distinctive buildings and structures.
Robbins was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, the ninth child of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, and Elizabeth (Le Baron) Robbins. Ammi was the first minister of Norfolk. [3] He had 12 siblings. [4] Robbins entered Yale University at the age of 15. In January 1796, he began a diary which he kept up through 1854.
Ernest N. Harmon (attended 1914) – president of Norwich University, major general, and commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Armored Division, and XXII Corps during World War II [7] Robert F. McDermott (attended 1937–1939) – dean of faculty to the Air Force Academy , Brigadier General, and flew 61 combat missions during World War II in ...
Norwich (/ ˈ n ɔːr w ɪ tʃ / NOR-wich) (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The Yantic, Shetucket, and Quinebaug Rivers flow into the city and form its harbor, from which the Thames River flows south to Long Island Sound. The city is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning ...
Inspired by a booklet from the Columbian Exposition, Kendall later produced the 1900 Glimpses of Norfolk that included photographs of summer homes as a souvenir for visitors. She also made a similar booklet for Ridgefield, Connecticut. [2] To augment her family's income, she sold sets of postcards depicting pastoral scenes in Connecticut.
The institution was founded on September 18, 1935, as the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University. [5] Eighty-five students attended the first classes held in 1935. Mr. Samuel Fischer Scott, an alumnus of Virginia Union and Portsmouth native, served as the first director with the primary focus of maintaining the solvency of the scho