We have added 125 articles about early 20th Century Ridgefield written by Ridgefield’s first town historian, Richard E. “Dick” Venus. The archive will continue to grow as Jack Sanders has time to digitize the 366 articles, which spanned more than seven years in the 1980s.
See the Dick’s Dispatch collection here.
Throughout the mid-to-late 1600’s, Connecticut carried out its own inquisitions to root out the devil, pre-dating the famous Salem Witch Trials.
A pewter uniform button uncovered alongside musket balls offers rare material proof of a Revolutionary skirmish, linking Ridgefield’s landscape with soldiers who fought there nearly 250 years ago.
This edition of the Scott House Journal features Clarence “Korky” Korker and the photographs of Ridgefield he captured, now being digitized by the Ridgefield Historical Society.
Betsy Reid, collections manager at the Ridgefield Historical Society, retires leaving a legacy of knowledge that is literally the foundation of our organization’s work.