Ridgefield, Connecticut

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The first surveyors came north from Norwalk to determine the suitability of the land for settlement as a plantation. Tradition says that they spent their first night on top of Settler's Rock and that fires were built at its base to protect them against wild animals. It is probable that they singled out the rock as a prominent landmark in the wilderness because of its great size and elevated location along the Indian trail to the Titicus River.

Titicus was part of the second purchase of land in 1715. It was bought from Tackora (Oreneca), the Sachem of Titicus Village, for four pounds in Connecticut currency.

Titicus School, now the home of the American Legion, was built around 1761 as a one-room schoolhouse which housed Grades 1-8. Organized in 1920, the American Legion took over the building in the 1990s and named it for Everett Ray Seymour, the first Ridgefield soldier to lose his life in World War I.

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