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After the renaming, the Duchess fast food chain began to expand operations. As of 2023, with the closing of Danbury's Mill Plain location, [3] Duchess now has 12 locations in the Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. [4] [5] Duchess has fresh produce, meat and poultry delivered daily. [6]
The Danbury and Norwalk Railroad opened the line in late February 1852, with the official opening on March 1. Charles Cannon of Cannondale was the subcontractor who helped build the route through Wilton. The train cost passengers 30 cents to go to South Norwalk and 50 cents to Danbury at a time when the day's wages of a laborer might not be a ...
Danbury: 1896 school designed by architect Warren Briggs and featured in his Modern American School Buildings. One of the last 19th century schools still used in the state, and one of the last "lab schools", used for advanced teacher training. Today Danbury's alternative high school. [28]: 2, 13 79: The Lodges Historic District
For the first century and a half of its existence, Danbury and Main Street were one and the same. The arrival of the railroads in the mid-19th century and the growth of the city's hatmaking industry began to expand it beyond Main's immediate neighborhood, and by the end of the century what had been a small village was a city with Main Street as its civic and commercial core.
The newer, main station building, on the westbound (New York City-bound) side of the tracks, was built in 1994. It has a cafe serving coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and pastries during the morning. The New York side's station building consists of a small waiting area with a gigantic glass arch, overlooking the tracks.
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The fourth station, Merritt 7, is on the Danbury Branch. Metro-North provides commuter service for all four stations. [77] The structure at 47 Wall Street was formerly the Wall Street station of the Danbury Branch, which operated from 1896 to 1936. The city's trolley system barn also operated on Wall Street. [78]
Greater Danbury (Danbury-New Milford Area), also known as the Housatonic Valley Region, is a region in the state of Connecticut centered on the city of Danbury. It consists of the city of Danbury and adjacent towns in the areas around the Housatonic River and the Still River .