If These Walls Could Talk | Preserve New Fairfield

Looking Back, is a compilation of past and recent articles about local history, written and researched by our Trustees Agnes-Betty Trimpert and Linda R. Decker

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CAMP HOOK, 1933-1935

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal were established to battle the depressed economy by...

NEW FAIRFIELD TOWN HALL, 1920

Built in 1759, this is still the center portion of our Town Hall today. Two separate additions were added to this structure in the 1930s....

FURLOUGH, 1943

FURLOUGH, 1943 Home on leave from the service during World War II, from left to right, Pvt. Freddie Fontaine, Seaman Harry Benedict, and...

PLAY BALL!

Play Ball! Just like today, spring in 1948 and 1949 meant it was time to play baseball at Consolidated School. But that is where the...

Clarissa Elwell Nevius

Clarissa was born August 1, 1877 in Danbury, CT. She was the oldest child of Miles H. and Lydia Elwell. Her family lived in the...

New Fairfield 1916 – one hundred years ago, a century ago, a long time ago!

What was New Fairfield like then? First, a little trivia about 1916. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected President of the USA on November 7,...

School Buses

New Fairfield Consolidated School opened on January 31, 1941 and it was then that school buses became a reality in town. Prior to that...

Christmas in New Fairfield

Members of the New Fairfield Volunteer Fire Company, organized in 1936, began the tradition of giving a Christmas party for all the...

Ephriam F.Foster

Most people in town knew Ephriam Frazor Foster as “Eph”. He and his sister, Georgiana, were children of Byron and Ida (Durgy) Foster. ...

Old Houses

I LIKE OLD HOUSES BEST DON’T YOU? THEY NEVER GO CLUTTERING UP A VIEW WITH ROOFS TOO RED AND PAINT TOO NEW, WITH DOORS TOO GREEN AND...