It was big news in 1901 when the Ridgefield Post Office established Rural Free Delivery. Ira C. Wixsom was one of the town’s first rural mail carriers.
View a slide presentation set to music featuring the work of Clarence Korker. This exhibit, currently in the Town Hall, is closed due to the pandemic.
Topics: What the Society has been working on; Recent grant awards; Heading to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Profile of Doc Adams
NUGGET #21 Turner, Aaron (1790-1854), born in Ridgebury, was an American circus pioneer; by 1820, his son, Napoleon, age 7, was a trick rider in NYC circus; by 1828, Turner
NUGGET #20 Titicus: A district and a neighborhood of Ridgefield just northwest of the village; name comes from the Titicus River that flows through it; word in turn is shortened
Dr. Darla Shaw portrays Abigail Ingersoll Olmstead, famous for allegedly waving her red petticoat during the Battle of Ridgefield and appearing to be a loyalist sympathizer. thus saving her home (and children) from harm, but earning the wrath of her husband, a staunch patriot.
In the final installment, read more letters from 15-year-old Thompson Derr to his mother from the Ridgefield School in 1916.
NUGGET #19 Saw mills: Possibly the first “industry” and first “factory” in Ridgefield was a sawmill. Certainly lumber was needed before almost anything else in the settlement of the new
Read more letters from 15-year-old Thompson Derr to his mother from the Ridgefield School in 1916.
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