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Branchville Fields by John Henry Twachtman, ca. 1888. Weir Farm National Historic Site in Ridgefield and Wilton is considered part of Branchville. Administered by the National Park Service, Weir Farm commemorates the life and work of impressionist painter Julian Alden Weir and other artists who stayed at the site, [10] with notable visitors having included Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder ...
Ridgefield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It consists of the primary central village in the town of Ridgefield and surrounding residential areas. As of the 2020 census , the population of the CDP was 7,596, [ 1 ] out of 25,053 in the entire town.
Samuel Keeler (1656–1713), founding settler of Ridgefield; Jeff Landau (born 1974), professional tennis player "Typhoid Mary" Mallon (1869–1938), who became famous for infecting people with typhoid, spent some time as a cook in town, where she infected some (according to brief front-page story in the July 22, 1909 Ridgefield Press)
It is also significant for the part it played in the Battle of Ridgefield when British forces passed through, in 1777. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is operated as the Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center (KTM&HC). It is also included in the Ridgefield Center Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1984. [2]
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Ridgefield in Review, by Silvio A. Bedini (1958) Out of print, but used copies often available locally; History of Ridgefield, by George L. Rockwell, 583 pages, long out of print; The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Records, Volume 36, an index to Ridgefield births, marriages and deaths from 1709 to 1850. Genealogical Publishing Company ...
Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States: Coordinates: 1] Area: 305 acres (123 ha) [2] Elevation: 958 ft (292 m) [1] Designation: Connecticut state park: Established: 1956: Administrator: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection: Website: Seth Low Pierrepont
Ridgefield opened in 1852 as an original station on the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. The name was changed to Branchville upon the 1870 opening of the Ridgefield Branch . A new station building was built around 1887 and served until the current station house was built in 1905. [ 4 ]