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The Newtown, Connecticut Flagpole stands in the middle of the intersection of Main Street, West Street, and Church Hill Road. The pole itself is 100 ft tall and made of steel, with a seasonally rotating American flag. The summer flag is 20 ft x 30 ft, costing an average $700, and the winter flag is 18 ft x 24 ft, costing an average of $375..
Newtown's Booth Memorial public library was opened December 17, 1932 with a capacity for 25,000 volumes. The library is a posthumous gift of Mary Elizabeth Hawley and was named after her maternal grandfather, a doctor in town from 1820 until his death in 1871.
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 Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut.There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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.
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Newtown is known for its wealth of history. One of the most noted former residents of Newtown was painter Edward Hicks, who lived in Newtown for over forty years with his family, where he was able to own his own business. Newtown has an established historical society called the Newtown Historic Association.
Newtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Newtown, King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.About 45 miles northeast of Richmond on the Middle Peninsula, Newtown took the name of the plantation of Captain John Richards, who had a store and ordinary (tavern/inn) on the post road (or King's Highway) between Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.