Cyrus Northrop’s story is the quintessential “local boy makes good.” He attended the Peter Parley Schoolhouse in the 1840s, and we’ll celebrate his birth month on Sunday, Sept. 25.
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.
The Ridgefield Historical Society is grateful to have received a 2022 grant from the Wadsworth R. Lewis Fund. Read a brief history of Lewis’s life in Ridgefield.
Findings from Phase 1 research have been released as a technical report. Two planning workshops are scheduled to engage the public about the future of the Battlefield work.
In early March, we received a visit from descendants of two of Ridgefield’s Founding Families. See who they are and what they discovered on their first trip to Ridgefield.
The late Maria Kruelski, a longtime Ridgefield resident, was known for her artistic and musical talents. One of her finely decorated pysanky (Ukrainian hand painted eggs) is now in the Society’s collection.
Mr. Luke Kilcoyne saved letters from his early years in the US, when many young people from Ireland were establishing themselves. Even with the support of family & friends who’d come before them, it wasn’t an easy life, as these letters make clear.
Hezekiah Scott was a weaver and operated a distillery on the brook near his home on Barlow Mountain Road — a stream now called Kiah’s Brook.
Topics: Adele Frattini and John Annesi; Battle of Ridgefield Study next steps.