Brookfield, Connecticut Brookfield, Connecticut Official seal of Brookfield, Connecticut Location in Fairfield County and the state of Connecticut.
Brookfield is a town positioned in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States in the southern foothills of the Berkshire Mountains.
The populace was 16,487 at the 2010 census. Brookfield was first settled in 1710 by John Muirwood, as well as other colonial framers including Hawley, Peck and Merwin.
The purchase of the south part of town involved the current municipal center where sachem Pocono then had his village and lived in an enormous palisade along the Still River.
The town of Brookfield was established in 1788.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 20.4 square miles (53 km2), of which 19.8 square miles (51 km2) is territory and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), or 2.94%, is water.
Brookfield Four Corners (town center) Brookfield Center (original town center, now a historic district) Other titled minor communities and geographic locations in the town are Barkwood Falls, Brookfield Junction, Candlewood Lake East, Candlewood Shores, East Iron Works, Huckleberry Hill, Iron Works, Long Meadow Hill, Obtuse, Pocono Ridge, Prospect Hill, West Iron Works, and Whisconier.
Main article: History of Brookfield, Connecticut The Wyantenuck were a sister tribe of the Paugusset Nation and lived in the northern part of the town of Brookfield, extending from North Mountain and Carmen Hill to the town center region.
The Pootatuck lived in the southern part of town from the John Northrop home up north to the current police station, and extending into current-day Newtown.
Early citizens who lived in Brookfield were subsistence farmers, gatherers and hunters.
The chief food sources were corn, beans, squash and wild foods found in the rocky, heavily forested foot hills of the Berkshire Mountains of Brookfield and New Milford.
The hunted foods that were taken from the forest and rivers were deer, passenger pigeon, turkey, bass, trout, crawfish, squirrel, rabbit and others. In the 18th century the improve was called "Newbury", a name that came from the three suburbs from which its territory was taken New Milford, Newtown, and Danbury. Incorporated in 1778, the town's name was changed to Brookfield with respect to Brooks, who was still the minister. Brookfield was a grow town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation.
The grist foundry still stands, as the Brookfield Craft Center.
The Iron Works Aqueduct Company, formed in 1837 to supply water from mountain springs to the Iron Works District, still supplies water as the Brookfield Water Company. Before 1912 the town had two train stations: one in the Iron Works District near the present Brookfield Market and a second, Junction Station, near the corner of Junction Road and Stony Hill Road. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s (the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut).
Going back to the early 1980s, Brookfield has been radically transformed from a colonial New England town to a primary shopping and consumer goods destination.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 27.4% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Brookfield's enhance schools are Brookfield High School, Center School, Whisconier Middle School, and Huckleberry Hill School.
There is also a magnet school in Danbury, Connecticut that students from Brookfield are accepted into, Students to this school are also accepted from Redding, New Milford, Newtown, and other county-wide communities.
The Brookfield Craft Center is a specialized, non-degree school which teaches the skills of craftsmanship and offers courses and workshops to the general public.
Brookfield Center Historic District Long Meadow Hill Rd.
Brookfield Craft Center An educational center that brings arts and crafts to citizens of all ages.
Located in the former Brookfield Train Station.
Candlewood Lake the biggest lake in Connecticut, Candlewood spans five suburbs and forms the border of Brookfield.
Four Corners A shopping precinct of Brookfield and future site of downtown region and possible stockyards station.
Still River Greenway Trail A paved trail through the woods used for walking and biking that joins the Brookfield Municipal Center to Four Corners.
He assembled Sunset Hill Golf Course in Brookfield.
WRKI-FM 95.1; 50,000 watts; the station has a "mainstream rock" format and covers Fairfield, Litchfield, New Haven counties in Connecticut and Putnam, Dutchess, Westchester counties in New York "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Brookfield town, Connecticut".
"About Brookfield", web page on the Town of Brookfield Web site, accessed August 7, 2012 a b "Newbury to Brookfield" Web page at Brookfield Historical Society Web site, accessed April 6, 2007 Town of Brookfield official website Brookfield Public Schools Brookfield Craft Center Brookfield Museum and Historical Society Municipalities and communities of Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
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