
Treasures from the Archives: Wooden Voting Box
This wooden voting box was used by the Ridgefield Italian American Club to vote on membership. It was donated to the Historical Society by Irene M. Gray in 2018.

This wooden voting box was used by the Ridgefield Italian American Club to vote on membership. It was donated to the Historical Society by Irene M. Gray in 2018.

Looking for some summer reading with a Ridgefield flavor? The gift shop at the Ridgefield Historical Society has some suggestions for entertaining reading that will give you a new understanding

This summer, we welcome two new interns to the Ridgefield Historical Society ranks, Elizabeth Jasminski and Francesco Carro.

It’s May 2022 and for the next several weeks, we have the good fortune to have our Ridgefield High School interns on board, lending an extra hand and a fresh
“Last Sundays at the Peter Parley Schoolhouse,” the seasonal opening of this mini-museum of early Ridgefield education, will get underway on Sunday, May 29, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Meet Ridgefield resident Bing Liem, official photographer of the Battle of Ridgefield Reenactment and the Ceremonial Funeral Procession for the Town of Ridgefield and the Historical Society.

The Ridgefield Historical Society is conducting Battle of Ridgefield Community Planning Charrettes to look to the future and consider how Ridgefield might integrate the Battle of Ridgefield history into our current landscape.

Topics: New research turns up tantalizing clues for historians; Great Fire of 1895; Battle of Ridgefield 245th Anniversary.

Thank you to our friends and philanthropists at the Ridgefield Thrift Shop (RTS) for their generous 2022 grant, which was awarded to the Ridgefield Historical Society (RHS) earlier this month.

On Sunday, April 10, the Ridgefield Historical Society was presented with an America 250 Commendation by the recently-formed Cannon Ridge Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR).