In 1928 local plane pilots bought a 60-acre (24 ha) tract near the Fairgrounds, known as Tucker's Field, and leased it to the town. Wrapped in a bison skin, the remains were transported to Manderson, South Dakota, to Saint Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, for reburial by tribal descendants. This meeting occurred in the Health Sciences Library of Danbury Hospital with assistance of the Chaplain. The city consulted with Oglala Sioux leaders of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and arranged repatriation of the remains to the nation. In 2012, employee Robert Young discovered Afraid of Hawk's remains. Oglala Sioux Albert Afraid of Hawk died on June 29, 1900, at age 21 in Danbury during the tour. It featured young men of the Oglala Sioux nation, who re-enacted events from frontier history. Īs a busy city, Danbury attracted traveling shows and tours, including Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1900. The ensuing flood of icy water killed 11 people within 30 minutes, and caused major damage to homes and farms. This dam broke on January 31, 1869, under pressure of ice and water. The first dam to be built on the river, to collect water for the hat industry, impounded the Kohanza Reservoir. The city and town were consolidated on January 1, 1965.
The borough was reincorporated as the city of Danbury on April 19, 1889. The central part of Danbury was incorporated as a borough in 1822. In 1852, the first railroad line in Danbury opened, with two trains making the 75-minute trip to Norwalk. Work moved quickly on the 23 mi (37 km) railroad line.
In 1850, the organization's plans were scaled back, and renamed the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. In 1835, the Connecticut Legislature granted a rail charter to the Fairfield County Railroad, but construction was delayed because of lack of investment. "Scene of the Disaster at Danbury", January 31, 1869 The fairgrounds were cleared to make room for the Danbury Fair Mall, which opened in autumn 1986. In 1869, it became a yearly event the last edition was in 1981. The letter is on display at the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Danbury. It is the first known instance of the expression in American legal or political writing. 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". Wooster is buried in Danbury's Wooster Cemetery the private Wooster School in Danbury also was named in his honor. The American General David Wooster was mortally wounded at the Battle of Ridgefield by the British forces which had raided Danbury, but at the beginning of the battle, the Americans succeeded in driving the British forces down to Long Island Sound. 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. ĭuring the following day on April 26, 1777, the British, under Major General William Tryon, burned and sacked Danbury, but fatalities were limited due to Ludington's warning. Sybil Ludington, 16-year-old daughter of American Colonel Henry Ludington, is said to have made a 40-mile ride in the early hours of the night on April 26, 1777, to warn the people of Danbury and her father's forces in Putnam County, New York, of the approach of British regulars, helping them muster in defense these accounts, originating from the Ludington family, are questioned by modern scholars. A survey was made in 1693, and a formal town patent was granted in 1702.ĭuring the Revolutionary War, Danbury was an important military supply depot for the Continental Army. The general court appointed a committee to lay out the new town's boundaries. In October 1687, the general court decreed the name Danbury. In recognition of the wetlands, the settlers chose the name Swampfield for their town. This area was also called Paquiack ("open plain" or "cleared land") by the Paquioque. One of the original settlers in Danbury was Samuel Benedict, who bought land from the Paquioque in 1685, along with his brother James Benedict, James Beebe, and Judah Gregory.
Bands were often identified by such geographic designation but they were associated with the larger nation by culture and language). The Danbury area was then called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Algonquian-speaking Pahquioque Native Americans (they are believed to have been a band of the Paugusset people), who occupied lands along the Still River.
Burleigh with list of landmarksĭanbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut. Lithograph of Danbury from a drawing by L.
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