Fairfield, Connecticut
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Location in Fairfield County and the state of Connecticut.
Fairfield is a town positioned in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town had a populace of 59,404. In July 2006, Money periodical ranked Fairfield the ninth "best place to live" in the United States, and the best place to live in the Northeast. 1.2 Towns created from Fairfield Roger Ludlowe, framer of the Fundamental Orders, purchased the territory presently called Fairfield, and established the name.
He bought a large tract of territory from the Pequannocke sachems, - afterwards greatly enlarged by other purchases to the westward,- and recalling the attractive region beyond (Uncoa), which he had personally seen on the second Pequot expedition, he also "set down" there, having purchased the territory embraced in the present town of Fairfield, to which he gave its name." Fairfield was one of the two principal settlements of the Connecticut Colony in southeastern Connecticut (the other was Stratford).
The town line with Stratford was set in May 1661 by John Banks, an early Fairfield settler, Richard Olmstead, and Lt.
The following is a list of suburbs created from parts of Fairfield.
Bridgeport in 1821 (also partly from Stratford) and again in 1895 when the Black Rock section left Fairfield See also: Burning of Fairfield (1779) When the American Revolutionary War began in the 1770s, Fairfielders were caught in the crisis as much as, if not more than, the rest of their neighbors in Connecticut.
In the spring of 1779, he was kidnapped from his home by Tory forces in preparation for a British raid on Fairfield County.
His wife, Mary Silliman watched from their home as, on the morning of July 7, 1779, approximately 2,000 enemy troops landed on Fairfield Beach near Pine Creek Point and proceeded to invade the town.
When they left the following evening, the entire town lay in ruins, burned to the ground as punishment for Fairfield's support of the rebel cause.
10 years later, President George Washington noted that after traveling through Fairfield that "the destructive evidences of British cruelty are yet visible both in Norwalk and Fairfield; as there are the chimneys of many burnt homes standing in them yet." Fairfield recovered slowly from the burning, but soon after the end of the war its homes and enhance buildings had all been rebuilt.
World War I brought Fairfield out of its agrarian past by triggering an unprecedented economic boom in Bridgeport, which was the center of a large munitions trade at the time.
The prosperity created a housing shortage in the city, and many of the workers looked to Fairfield to build their homes.
The grounding of a barge with two crewmen on Penfield Reef in Fairfield amid a gale led to the 1st civilian helicopter hoist rescue in history, on November 29, 1945.
Fairfield became the home of the corporate command posts of General Electric (GE), one of the world's biggest companies.
The opening of the Connecticut Turnpike in the 1950s brought another wave of evolution to Fairfield, and by the 1960s the town's residentiary, suburban character was firmly established.
Views of Fairfield, Connecticut Postcard from 1932 showing bathers at Fairfield Beach Fairfield's Burr Homestead in a 1938 photo Penfield Reef Lighthouse is positioned in Long Island Sound off the coast of Fairfield Beach Bellarmine Hall at Fairfield University Fairfield consists of many neighborhoods.
Other well established neighborhoods include Stratfield, Tunxis Hill, the University area, Grasmere, Mill Plain, Knapp's Village, Melville Village, Holland Hill, and the Fairfield Beach area, which has recently undergone a renaissance with the assembly of many new homes by inhabitants wishing to live in adjacency to the beach and downtown. Two shopping districts in town include the Post Road (U.S.
Fairfield Center in a 1956 postcard Fairfield Center/Downtown Fairfield Fairfield Beach region Fairfield is notable for, among other things, its very low crime rate.
Money Magazine's 2006 Best Places to Live Survey rates Fairfield as the second safest municipality in the United States. In 2012, Fairfield was ranked #64 in Money Magazine's Best Places to live. In May 2012, Moody's Investors Service revised the Town of Fairfield's $192 million General Obligation Bond debt from negative to stable. In June 2012, Moody's awarded Fairfield with an AAA bond rating which it maintains to this date.
In 2005, the foundry rate of Fairfield, CT was 16.67. The 2012-2013 taxes in Fairfield rose 4% to a foundry rate of 23.37. The 2013-2014 foundry rate which goes into effect on July 1 for fiscal year 2013-2014 also increased by 2.38% to 23.93. Fairfield University 1073 North Benson Road (5000 students and more than 500 academic employees plus additional administrators and staff) Fairfield Beach, in a 1921 postcard Post Road, in Fairfield Center, in a 1934 photo 1910 postcard showing Fairfield Library Fairfield Community Theater, shown in this 1938 postcard, is directed by the Fairfield Community Theatre Foundation Fairfield Historic District Old Post Road from Post Road to Turney Road (added 1971).
This is the old town center of Fairfield, roughly along Old Post Road between U.S.
The region contains Fairfield's town hall, enhance library, and homes dating from the late 18th century.
Fairfield Railroad Stations Carter Henry Drive (added 1989) Quick Center for the Arts on the ground of Fairfield University opened in 1990.
The Quick Center has turn into known as one of the finest concert halls in the nation and was recognized as the "cultural epicenter of Fairfield County" by Westport Magazine.
The Pepsi - Co Theatre, a renovated 1922 carriage home on the ground of Fairfield University, is the home to the Theatre Program of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and Theater Fairfield, the resident manufacturing company of the University.
The Bellarmine Museum of Art on the ground of Fairfield University host shows by county-wide artists and touring exhibitions as well as a permanent collection.
WVOF, student-run radio at Fairfield University Fairfield University hosts collegiate athletic competitions open to the enhance including basketball, baseball, cross-country, field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.
Fairfield inhabitants appreciate a richness of recreational opportunities, many of which stem from Fairfield's enviable locale on the Long Island Sound.
The town's 5 miles (8 km) of Long Island Sound coastline include five town beaches which are staffed by lifeguards amid the summer, and miles of privately owned beach which are open to the enhance below the high tide mark.
Lake Mohegan, which includes waterfalls called The Cascades, is a prominent destination for hiking, as are the Fairfield Audubon Society and the Bird Sanctuary.
Ye Yacht Yard is also the locale of Community Sailing of Fairfield, whose members share use of two 18-foot sailboats.
The "Sports - Plex" is positioned in downtown Fairfield and offers athletic activities such as; ice skating, indoor climbing, Indoor soccer and gymnastics.
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield (separate from the Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary) 6 miles (10 km) of boardwalk nature trails in a wildlife sanctuary of 160 acres (0.65 km2) with a nature center Fairfield Museum and History Center displays on small-town history, art and decorative arts, and a library on small-town history Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University Fairfield's town hall However, the town does also offer access to a Juvenile Review Board (JRB) for certain juvenile cases outlined by the Fairfield Police Department.
In the Connecticut General Assembly, Fairfield is represented by three Republicans, Sen.
The Fairfield Police Department was created in 1926, approximately 287 years after the town was founded. I Fairfield Fire Department (FFD) City Fairfield The town of Fairfield is protected by the 95 longterm position firefighters of the Fairfield Fire Department (FFD), and volunteer firefighters of the Southport Volunteer Fire Department and Stratfield Volunteer Fire Department.
The longterm position Fairfield Fire Department operates 5 Fire Stations, positioned throughout the town and utilize a fire apparatus fleet of 5 Engine Companies, 1 Ladder Company, 1 Rescue Company, 3 Fireboats, and 1 Shift Commander's Unit, as well as many special support, and reserve units.
The combined longterm position and volunteer fire departments respond to approximately 9,500 emergency calls annually. The Southport Volunteer Fire Department has served the improve since 1895. The Fairfield Fire Department has a several stations and has served the improve since 1920. Below is a list of all the fire stations locations and apparatus in the town of Fairfield.
Engine 1 Rescue 1, Marine 6 (Fireboat), Marine 7 (Fireboat), Foam Support Unit, Engine 6 (Reserve), Ladder 1 (Reserve) Car 1 (Chief of Department), Car 2 (Deputy Chief), Car 4 (Fire Marshal), Car 5 (Safety/Training Unit) 140 Reef Rd.
Fairfield Center Reserve Engine 6 and Reserve Ladder 1 are positioned at the quarters of Engine 1/Rescue 1; Reserve Engine 7 is positioned at the quarters of Engine 2/Ladder 2/Shift Commander; Reserve Engine 8 is positioned at the quarters of Engine 5.
The Fairfield Fire Department also operates a Connecticut county-wide fire training school, positioned at 205 Richard White Way. Main entrance to Fairfield University Main article: Education in Fairfield, Connecticut Fairfield has two enhance high schools, Fairfield Warde and Fairfield Ludlowe; three enhance middle schools, Roger Ludlowe, Tomlinson, and Fairfield Woods Middle School; and eleven enhance elementary schools. Fairfield has a several Catholic schools, including two high schools, Fairfield Prep and Notre Dame, and two major schools, St.
Non-religious private schools include Fairfield Country Day School and the Unquowa School.
Fairfield is also home to two post-secondary establishments, Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University.
In April 2017, the largest, most expensive assembly universal in Fairfield Schools' history was announced: the building of two new elementary schools and a new freshman school.
Fairfield Minuteman Fairfield Citizen-News Fairfield Sun Fairfield Magazine (townvibe.com) Fairfield County Catholic Fairfield is traversed by U.S.
It has three Metro-North Railroad stations, Fairfield Metro, Fairfield and Southport.
Fairfield Grace United Methodist Church First Presbyterian Church of Fairfield Douglas Dillon, Secretary of US Treasury, ambassador to France, lived in Fairfield c.
Downie, author and professor of politics and surrounding policy at Fairfield University Robert Greenberger (born 1958), writer, editor and Fairfield politician Paul Hogan, aka "Crocodile Dundee", lived many years in Fairfield with wife Linda Kozlowski David La - Chapelle, born in Fairfield, photographer and director Henry Fairfield Osborn, (1857 1935) geologist, paleontologist, eugenicist Brian Torff, jazz musician, composer, head of Fairfield University's music program von Arx, President of Fairfield University "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Fairfield town, Connecticut".
Prevost, Lisa (July 3, 2005)."LIVING IN/The Fairfield, Conn., Beach Area; A Beach Community in an Awkward Transition, The New York Times" Fairfield Registrar of Voters Office.
Fairfield (Town of) CT Credit Rating - Moody's.
(2012-05-10) Fairfield FY13 Mill Rate Set at 23.37 Mills: 4% Tax Increase - Government - Fairfield, CT Patch.
Final 2013-14 tax rate set with 2.4% increase - Fairfield Citizen.
Prevost, Lisa (July 3, 2005)."LIVING IN/The Fairfield, Conn., Beach Area; A Beach Community in an Awkward Transition", The New York Times Elected Officials, Town of Fairfield, Connecticut.
History Of The Fairfield Police.
"Fairfield Schools: New school assembly on time, budget".
Fairfield Online News Fairfield Citizen-News Fairfield Sun Dixon, Ken, "Music Hall of Fame proposed for state ", article in Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 26, 2007 ("Leonard Bernstein, a longtime Fairfield resident") After 50 Years in Acting, Fully Relaxed in His Craft, New York Times Web page, The New York Times, April 8, 2007, accessed May 21, 2008 "Fairfield Candidates' Q&A: Bob Greenberger" Archived June 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine..
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