Scott House Journal
Scott House Journal, February 2025
This edition of the Scott House Journal features St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, a Ridgefield landmark celebrating its 300th anniversary in 2025.
Scott House Journal, July 2024
This edition of the Scott House Journal features the Civil War letters of Edwin Darling Pickett who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg at age 28.
Scott House Journal, February 2024
This edition of the Scott House Journal features the history of the Branchville Schoolhouse and the Historical Society’s current work to save and restore it.
Scott House Journal, July 2023
This edition of the Scott House Journal features the Couch family collection as well as a tribute to the Ridgefield Garden Club’s long association with the West Lane/Peter Parley Schoolhouse.
Scott House Journal, April 2023
This edition of the Scott House Journal features the growth of Ridgefield during the Gilded Age, as well as other Gilded Age remembrances and treats.
Scott House Journal, January 2023
This edition of the Scott House Journal includes Jack Sanders’ recommendations on what items are worth saving to help future historians provide an accurate view of the past; as well as an account of a curious 1925 Ridgefield court case over that most simple of resources — wood. This story was recently uncovered while reviewing documents in the Ridgefield Historical Society archives.
Scott House Journal, October 2022
This edition of the Scott House Journal includes stories on the inaugural Witness Stones installation in Ridgefield at the David Scott House, also the Historical Society headquarters; and a wonderful biography of Mabel E. Cleves, a champion of kindergarten in Ridgefield in the earlier 1900s.
Scott House Journal, July 2022
Topics: The ‘New’ Ridgefield High School turns 50; Josie Hoyt’s Diaries offer offer insights into Ridgefield history in the late 1800s — births and deaths, the Blizzard of 1888, escapades at the Titicus School, a murder-suicide, and more.
Scott House Journal, April 2022
Topics: New research turns up tantalizing clues for historians; Great Fire of 1895; Battle of Ridgefield 245th Anniversary.
Scott House Journal, January 2022
Topics: Adele Frattini and John Annesi; Battle of Ridgefield Study next steps.
Scott House Journal, October 2021
Topics: 20th anniversary year; the founding of the Historical Society; the Society’s current mission.
Scott House Journal, July 2021
Topics: RHS celebrates 20 years this fall with a year-long series of programs starting with a kick-off event on Saturday, October 2; Troop A in Ridgefield: State Police arrived as Prohibition began
Scott House Journal, April 2021
Topics: post-Civil War Ridgefield, Mary Christie (Mamie) Seymour, William O. Seymour
Scott House Journal, January 2021
Topics: President’s Message; Joe Tulipani’s Memoir of Farm Life; Upcoming Webinars
Scott House Journal, October 2020
Topics: Voting in Ridgefield; Message from our new president; Dear Luke: an Irish Immigrant Experience
Scott House Journal, July 2020
Topics: What the Society has been working on; Recent grant awards; Heading to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Profile of Doc Adams
Scott House Journal, April 2020
Topics: The 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ in Ridgefield; Message from new Ridgefield Historical Society president Sara Champion
Scott House Journal, September 2019
Download PDF Topics: 1871 diary of Miss Susie Scott, New York debutante Gerardus Herrick propeller prototype Walnut Grove Farm photo by Marie Kendall
Scott House Journal, March 2019
Download PDF Topics: 1929 Ridgefield High School Scrapbook Ridgefield Press Editor William Wallace Whiting Rev. George Lansing Taylor, minister of Jesse Lee Methodist Church
