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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLJL_ensign-james-benedict-house_Ridgefield-CT.html
c. 1730EnsignJames BenedictCobbler's Shop and Home
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLJH_ye-burying-yard_Ridgefield-CT.html
Ye Burying Yard Ridgefield'sOldest CemeteryRestored 1988maintained byThe Caudatowa Garden Club&Parks & Recreation Dept. The Burying Yard contains a monument listing 40 people who were buried in this cemetery between 1708 and about 1760. No origina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLJE_the-museum-in-the-streets_Ridgefield-CT.html
Welcome to Ridgefield's History Trail!Ridgefield, Connecticut - 1708The Fundamental Orders adopted by Connecticut in 1639 directed would-be settlers, able to support a minister, to establish a settlement, build a Congregational Church and farm the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF6_ridgebury-george-washington-slept-here_Ridgefield-CT.html
Ridgebury, "The New Patent," was one of the last land purchases made by the Proprietors. Tradition says that the First Congregational Church in Ridgebury had its beginnings in the "New Patent Meeting House" as early as 1738. In 1768 the congregat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF5_the-livery-stable-and-the-first-catholic-church_Ridgefield-CT.html
Whitlock's Livery, later the Sperry Livery stable, was across the street from the firehouse. Whitlock ran a stage to the Branchville station before the branch line was built in 1870. The livery stable also boarded horses, including those used by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF4_out-of-the-ashes_Ridgefield-CT.html
The Fire District in Ridgefield was organized in 1896 following the devastating fire of 1895. Ex-Governor Phineas Lounsbury was an early benefactor of the Department and the new engine company took his name. The firehouse is also the site of the o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF3_st-mary-church-and-rectory_Ridgefield-CT.html
A New Catholic Church was first planned in 1896. This Victorian Gothic building was completed and dedicated on July 5, 1897. This building is described by the Ridgefield Preservation Trust as "? one of Ridgefield's finest buildings?a complex and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF2_ridgefields-colonial-plans_Ridgefield-CT.html
The First Recorded Plan for settlement was in 1697 when a group of Congregationalists primarily from Norwalk petitioned "to purchase of the Indians a certain tract of land lying about 14 miles northward of the town of Norwalk to settle a plantati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLDW_benedict-arnolds-betrayal-and-lieutenant-joshua-king_Ridgefield-CT.html
On September 23, 1780, on his way through American lines to New York City, Major John Andre of the British Army was captured, taken prisoner and brought to American headquarters in South Salem, N.Y. Andre had plotted with General Benedict Arnold …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLDU_rev-thomas-hawley-house_Ridgefield-CT.html
This house isthe Oldest inRidgefield—————-Built in 1713—- by —-Rev. Thomas HawleyFirst Pastorand Town Clerk