Danbury, Connecticut "Danbury"
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Danbury, Connecticut Official seal of Danbury, Connecticut NECTA Danbury Danbury is a town/city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, approximately 70 miles from New York City.
Danbury's populace at the 2010 census was 80,893. Danbury is the fourth most crowded city in Fairfield County, and seventh among Connecticut cities.
The town/city is inside the New York urbane area.
The town/city is titled for Danbury, England, the place of origin of many of its early settlers.
It is nicknamed the Hat City because of its prominent history in the hat industry.
The mineral danburite is titled for Danbury.
Danbury is home to Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Fair Mall and Danbury Municipal Airport.
1.1 Hatmaking in Danbury 5.2 Danbury Federal Correctional Institution See also: Main Street Historic District (Danbury, Connecticut) Danbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut.
The Danbury region was then called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Pahquioque Native Americans.
Also called Paquiack ("open plain" or "cleared land") by small-town Native Americans, the pioneer chose the name Swampfield for their town, but in October 1687, the general court decreed the name Danbury.
During the American Revolution, Danbury was an meaningful military supply depot for the Continental Army.
The central motto on the seal of the City of Danbury is Restituimus (Latin for "We have restored"), a reference to the destruction caused by the Loyalist army troops.
The American General David Wooster was mortally wounded at the Battle of Ridgefield by the same British forces which had attacked Danbury.
He is buried in Danbury's Wooster Cemetery; the private Wooster School in Danbury also was titled in his honor.
In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, a group expressing fear of persecution by the Congregationalists of that town, in which he used the expression "Separation of Church and State".
The letter is on display at the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Danbury.
The first Danbury Fair was held in 1821.
The fairgrounds were cleared to make room for the Danbury Fair Mall, which opened in autumn 1986. In 1850, the organization's plans were scaled back, and retitled the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad.
In 1852, it, the first barns line in Danbury, opened, with two trains making the 75-minute trip to Norwalk.
The central part of Danbury was incorporated as a borough in 1822.
The borough was reincorporated as the town/city of Danbury on April 19, 1889.
Oglala Sioux tribesman Albert Afraid of Hawk died on June 29, 1900 in Danbury amid a tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at age 21.
This became an airport, which is now Danbury Municipal Airport (ICAO: KDXR).
On August 18 19, 1955, the Still River, which normally meandered slowly through downtown Danbury, overflowed its banks when Hurricane Diane hit the area, dropping 6 inches of precipitation on the city.
On October 13 16, another 12 inches of precipitation fell on Danbury, causing the worst flooding in the City's history.
The flawed major mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope was ground and polished in Danbury by Perkin-Elmer's Danbury Optical System unit from 1979 to 1981.
In the August 1988 copy of Money magazine, Danbury topped the magazine's list of the best U.S.
In 1780, what is traditionally considered to be the first hat shop in Danbury was established by Zadoc Benedict (although hat making existed in Danbury before the Revolution); it had 3 employees, and made 18 hats weekly. By 1800, Danbury was producing 20,000 hats annually, more than anywhere else in the U.S. Due to the fur felt hat coming back into style for men and increasing mechanization in the 1850s, by 1859 hat manufacturing in Danbury had risen to 1.5 million annually.
In 1902, the American Federation of Labor union called for a nationwide boycott of a Danbury non-union hat manufacturer, Dietrich Loewe.
This also is known as the Danbury Hatters' case.
So while Danbury produced 24% of America's hats in 1904, the town/city supplied the trade with 75% of its hat bodies. The turn of the century was the heyday of the hatting trade in Danbury, when it became known as the "Hat City" and the "Hatting Capitol of the World".
Its motto was "Danbury Crowns Them All".
But by the 1920s, the hat trade was in decline, and by 1923, only six manufacturers were left in Danbury.
After WWII, returning GI's went hatless, a trend that accelerated through the 1950s, dooming the city's hat industry. The city's last primary hat factory, owned by Stetson, closed in 1964. The last hat was made in Danbury in 1987 when a small factory owned by Stetson closed. During the Second World War, Danbury's federal prison was one of many sites used for the incarceration of conscientious objectors.
One in six inmates in the United States' federal prisons was a conscientious objector, and prisons like Danbury found themselves suddenly filled with large numbers of highly educated men skilled in civil activism.
Due to the activism of inmates inside the prison, and small-town workers protesting in solidarity with the conscientious objectors, Danbury became one of the nation's first prisons to desegregate its inmates. Danbury station, ca.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Danbury has a total region of 44.3 square miles (115 km2), of which 42.1 square miles (109 km2) is territory and 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2), or 4.94%, is water.
The City is positioned in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains on low-lying territory just south of Candlewood Lake (the City includes the southern parts of the lake).
Danbury borders Ridgefield to the southwest, Redding to the south, Bethel to the southeast, Brookfield to the northeast, New Fairfield to the north, and Southeast, New York to the west.
A geologic fault known as Cameron's Line runs through Danbury.
The Still River flows generally from west to east through Danbury.
Danbury has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa), with four distinct seasons, resembling Hartford more than coastal Connecticut or New York City.
Climate data for Danbury, Connecticut (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1937 present) Average snowy days ( 0.1-inch) 7.9 5.4 4.2 .9 0 0 0 0 0 .1 1.0 5.0 24.5 Historical populace of Danbury It is estimated that the populace of Danbury as of 2015 is 84,657. As of the census of 2010, there were 80,893 citizens and 29,046 homeholds in the City, with 2.73 persons per homehold.
When ZIP codes were introduced in 1963, the 06810 code was given to all of Danbury; it was shared with a then-still-rural New Fairfield to its north.
In 1984, the 06810 Zip Code was cut back to areas of Danbury south of Interstate 84.
In 2016 Danbury's workforce was approximately 79,400 workers.
2016, the unemployment rate for the Danbury Labor Market Area was 3.0%, compared to 3.7% for the State and 4.6% nationally. 3 Danbury Public Schools 1,686 9 City of Danbury 551 The chief executive officer of Danbury is the Mayor, who serves a two-year term.
The Mayor is the presiding officer of the City Council, which consists of 21 members, two from each of the seven town/city wards, and seven at-large. The City Council enacts ordinances and resolutions by a simple majority vote.
The current City Council consists of 15 Republicans and 6 Democrats. Danbury has six state delegates as of 2017; Rep.
Danbury is represented in the United States Congress by U.S.
Danbury's Fiscal Year 2016-2017 foundry rate is 28.68. Danbury has two enhance high schools: Danbury High School and Henry Abbott Technical High School, each which are for grades 9 through 12.
An alternative school by the name of Alternative Center for Excellence is homed off-campus, and its graduates receive Danbury High School diplomas upon culmination of their studies. Danbury also has 3 enhance middle schools for grades 6 through 8: Broadview Middle School, Rogers Park Middle School and West - Side Middle School Academy. There are 13 elementary schools in Danbury.
These schools are Academy for International Studies Magnet School (K-5), Ellsworth Avenue (K-5), Great Plain (K-5), Hayestown (K-5), King Street Primary (K-3) and King Street Intermediate (4 5), Mill Ridge Primary (K-3), Morris Street (K-5), Park Avenue (K-5), Pembroke (K-5), Shelter Rock (K-5), South Street (K-5) and Stadley Rough (K-5). Roman Catholic schools in Danbury reside inside the administration of the Diocese of Bridgeport and include: 3 elementary schools: St Peter-Sacred Heart School (PK-8), St.
Other parochial schools in Danbury are: Danbury is home to Western Connecticut State University, Ridley-Lowell Business & Technical Institute, and a ground of Naugatuck Valley Community College Danbury Federal Correctional Institution Danbury is the site of a low-security men's and women's prison, the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, positioned near the border with New Fairfield. Built in the 1940s to home men, the facility was converted to a women's prison in 1994 to address a shortage of beds for low-security female inmates in other facilities.
Danbury is the end of the Danbury branch line of the MTA Metro-North Railroad which begins in Norwalk.
The line was first assembled by the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad which was later bought by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company.
Danbury was an meaningful junction between the Danbury Branch and the Maybrook Line.
The Maybrook line was the New Haven's chief freight line which terminated in Maybrook, New York, where the New Haven exchanged traffic with other barns s.
Today, the historic station is part of the Danbury Railway Museum.
The Providence and Worcester Railroad, along with the Housatonic Railroad furnish small-town rail freight service in Danbury.
The town/city is also the locale of Danbury Municipal Airport (DXR).
The principal surface roads through the town/city are Lake Avenue, West Street, White Street, and Federal Road.
Route 6 in the part of the city, Newtown Road, which joins to US 6 east of the city, Route 53 (Main Street and South Street), Route 37 (North Street, Padaranam Road, and Pembroke Road), and Route 39 (Clapboard Ridge Road and Ball Pond Road).
Danbury has 242 miles of streets. The Danbury Public Library was established in 1879. Hamlet - Hub Danbury a small-town news publication.
The News-Times of Danbury, a daily journal owned by the Hearst Corporation.
The Ives Trail is a 20-mile stretch of trail that runs from Bennett's Pond in Ridgefield through Danbury to Redding.
Danbury Museum and Historical Society Danbury Railway Museum The Danbury Fair Mall was assembled on the old fairgrounds in 1986.
Danbury is also home to an Army Reserve Special Operations unit, the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion.
Danbury Hospital is a 456-bed hospital, serving patients in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Putnam County, New York. The hospital is the home of the new Praxair Regional Heart and Vascular center, providing state of the art cardiovascular care to this burgeoning region including open heart surgery and coronary angioplasty.
Richter Park Golf Course is Danbury's municipal golf course and hosts various tournaments such as the annual Danbury Amateur and American Junior Golf Association majors.
Danbury Ice Arena Union Station (Danbury Railway Museum) White St.
The United Hockey League (UHL) period to Danbury in 2004.
The Danbury Trashers played their first season at the Danbury Ice Arena in October 2004.
On December 27, 2009, Danbury was titled the first town/city to officially have a new team in the newly formed Federal Hockey League (FHL).
The team was titled the Danbury Whalers, bringing back the name "Whalers" to Connecticut for the first time since 1997 when Hartford Whalers of the WHA/NHL moved to North Carolina and became the Carolina Hurricanes.
At the end of the 2014 15 season, the Danbury Ice Arena evicted the Danbury Whalers.
However, a new FHL Danbury team called the Danbury Titans was allowed for the 2015 16 season, owned by small-town car dealership owner Bruce Bennett.
As part of the approval of the new Danbury team, he took over the Stateline/Danbury market and created the Brewster Bulldogs freshwater the Whalers (the Bulldogs closed after one season). The Danbury Westerners, a member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, play their home games at Rogers Park in Danbury.
AC Connecticut is a soccer team based in the Danbury suburb of Newtown.
Danbury High School carries a strong athletic tradition in wrestling, boys and girls track and field, boys cross country, baseball, tennis, basketball, and football.
The Danbury Hatters Cricket Club formed in 2001 and has been playing cricket in Southern Connecticut along with other metros/cities such as Norwalk, Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury and West Haven.
The Western Connecticut Militia is a semi-professional football team that joined the New England Football League in 2011.
The team plays its home games in Danbury at both Danbury High School and Immaculate High School.
In the movie Blow, the character George Jung serves his 26-month sentence in the Danbury federal prison. Alfred Hitchcock filmed scenes from Strangers on a Train, including his cameo with a double bass, at Union Station (now the Danbury Railway Museum). In the Seinfeld episode The Baby Shower, Elaine explains that her roommate contracted Lyme disease when "She did some outside version of Hair in Danbury Connecticut". David Letterman stores his extensive compilation of cars in a warehouse in Danbury adjoining to the airport. See also: Category:People from Danbury, Connecticut James Montgomery Bailey, 19th century Danbury News editor Zadoc Benedict, the first hat manufacturer of Danbury Greater Danbury, the urbane region centered on the town/city Mad hatter disease, chronic mercury poisoning among hatmakers (also known as the "Danbury shakes") a b c "Quick - Facts Danbury city, Connecticut".
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