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A 202-acre (82 ha) historic district that is significant for coherently embodying "the distinctive architectural and cultural-landscape characteristics of a small commercial center as well as an agricultural community from the early national period through the early 20th century....[including embodying] virtually the full array of human ...
The first Masses were held in the basement of the Danbury Town Hall. In the spring of 1925 the property where the church now stands was purchased for one dollar and other valuable considerations. Within four months over $20,000 was collected, and construction of the new church began almost immediately, and on October 18, 1925, 2,000 people ...
Danbury (/ ˈ d æ n b ɛər i / DAN-bair-ee) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City.Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518.
The first local bank, the Savings Bank of Danbury, was established by local businessmen in the home of treasurer George Ives, grandfather of composer Charles Ives, on Main Street. Soon after, downtown would reach its modern extent in 1852 with the coming of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. The landowners of northern Main Street, also ...
Germantown is a neighborhood in the city of Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. [2] This section is on the eastern side of Danbury, with Hospital Avenue as its main thoroughfare. It is named after the German immigrants who lived there during the 19th century to work in Danbury's hat factories.
The Danbury Museum and Historical Society was formed in 1947 as the result of a merger between the Scott Fanton Museum and the Danbury Historical and Arts Center. [1] During the late 19th and 20th centuries, John Fanton , a Danbury industrialist and prominent citizen, and his second wife, Laura Scott, traveled extensively through Europe , Asia ...
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Promotional material for the film claimed that it was "based on true events" experienced by the Snedeker family of Southington, Connecticut, in 1986. Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed that the Snedeker house was a former funeral home where morticians regularly practiced necromancy, and that there were "powerful" supernatural "forces at work" that were cured by an exorcism.