About Brookfield, Connecticut

Brookfield is a town of 17,528 people in Fairfield County, between Candlewood Lake and the Housatonic. Colonists settled here in 1710 on land carved from New Milford, Newtown and Danbury, so the parish was called Newbury, a name blended from all three. In 1754 the General Assembly incorporated the Society of Newbury, and on September 28, 1757, the parish dedicated its meetinghouse and ordained Rev. Thomas Brooks as its minister.

The neighboring towns did not want to lose this ground. In 1743 the Newtown church had named a man to fight a separate parish, and Newbury later spent close to twenty years asking the General Assembly to make it a town. The Assembly granted its petition in May 1788, and the new town was named for Brooks, who was still its pastor. When voters gathered for their first town meeting on June 9, they passed a formal thanks to the visitors from nearby towns who had come to watch.

“It is a quaint old spot like many another New England village, shut away from the noise and bustle of the outside world.”
First Congregational Church sketch, 1907
  • Iron at Half-Way FallsIron works were operating by 1732 where the Still River drops into a gorge at Half-Way Falls. A year later the owners took on Eleazer Hathaway as bloomer, expecting twenty-four tons of iron yearly out of two forges. Local tradition holds that in the Revolution, iron was carried about forty miles by night to West Point, for use in the Hudson River chain. The village's old gristmill survives as the Brookfield Craft Center.
  • Knives, shears and hatsIn 1837 Daniel Tomlinson, a former state senator, dammed the Still River and began making currier's knives. The freshet of 1853 swept his dam away, but the shop kept growing into a shear works, which became the Lenox Shear Company in 1889. Nearby, from 1868 to 1875, Henry B. Hawley ran a hat shop with a hundred people on his payroll, turning out hats for the New York City firm of Pearce and Hall.
  • Spring water since 1837The Iron Works Aqueduct Company was formed in 1837 to carry water from the mountain springs down to the busy Iron Works village. It still supplies the town today as the Brookfield Water Company.
  • The Curtis School, 1883 to 1943The Curtis School for Boys moved to Brookfield Center from Bethlehem in 1883 and ran as a boarding school until 1943. Starting in the 1920s, girls could enroll as day students. The school's 1907 gymnasium now holds the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, where neighbors put on community plays.

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Names on the Brookfield map

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Places and landmarks25

  • Brookfield Center Historic District
  • Brookfield High School
  • Brookfield Municipal Center
  • Brookfield Post Office
  • Brookfield Senior Center
  • Brookfield Theatre for the Arts
  • Brookfield Town Beach
  • Brookfield Town Hall
  • Burr Farm Open Space
  • Cadigan Park
  • Candlewood East Marina
  • Candlewood Lake Elementary School
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  • Candlewood Orchards
  • Happy Landings Protected Open Space
  • Obtuse Hill
  • Old Bridge Park
  • Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys Church
  • School Park
  • Stony Hill
  • Sunset Hill Golf Club
  • The Brookfield Library
  • Town Open Space
  • Valley Presbyterian Church
  • Whisconier Middle School
  • Williams Park

Streets and roads17

  • Richards Rd
  • Johns Rd
  • Ironworks Hill Rd
  • Prospect Dr
  • Riverford Rd
  • Hill Rd
  • Federal Rd
  • Cross Rd
  • Junction Rd
  • Bower Rd
  • Bridge Rd
  • Gray St
  • Grays Bridge Rd
  • State Rd
  • Tead Rd
  • Stony Hill Rd
  • Meadow Ln

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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