The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut

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Location: Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Other: Connecticut Sources

Contents 1 The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut 1.1 Available online at these locations: 1.2 Table of Contents 1.3 Errata 1.4 Citation Formats

The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut

• by George Lounsbury Rockwell (1869-1947)
• priv. print. by the author, Ridgefield, Conn., 1927
• 583 pages
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Available online at these locations:

• https://books.google.com/books?id=GOsnAQAAMAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/TheHistoryOfRidgefieldConnecticut
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010524225
• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/14734/
• https://books.google.com/books?id=yPELAAAAYAAJ search & snippet only
• https://books.google.com/books?id=IzglAAAAMAAJ search & snippet only
• (1989) reprint
  • https://archive.org/details/historyofridgefi0000rock

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I. Purchase of The Township
• Chapter II. Settlement of The Town
• Chapter III. The Indians of Ridgefield
• Chapter IV. Settlers rock
• Chapter V. Colonial life and activities
• Chapter VI. The Oblong
• Chapter VII. Highways and stage coach routes
• Chapter VIII. Town meetings and town affairs
• Chapter IX. The French and Indian War
• Chapter X. Revolutionary period
• Chapter XI. The Battle of Ridgefield. Tryons invasion
• Chapter XII. Further incidents of the Revolutionary War
• Chapter XIII. The French troops
• Chapter XIV Ridgefield men in the Revolutionary
• Chapter XV. Individual records of Revolutionary soldiers
• Chapter XVI. The Stebbins house
• Chapter XVII. War of 1812
• Chapter XVIII. Sarah Bishop, the hermitess
• Chapter XX. The Congregational Church
• Chapter XXI. St. Stephens Episcopal Church
• Chapter XXII. The Ridgebury churches
• Chapter XXIII. The Methodist Episcopal Church
• Chapter XXIV. St. Marys Catholic Church
• Chapter XXV. The Christian Science Society
• Chapter XXVI. Peter Parley
• Chapter XXVII. Minor Wars. The Seminole
• Chapter XXVIII. The Civil War
• Chapter XXIX. The World War
• Chapter XXX. Fraternal and social organizations
• Chapter XXXI. Associations and reminiscences
• Chapter XXXII. Schools and libraries
• Chapter XXXIII. Former industries of the town
• Chapter XXXIV. Cemeteries
• Chapter XXXV. Sketches
• Chapter XXXVI. Personal and biographical sketches
• Chapter XXXVII. Ridgefield of the present
• From the records of vital statistics Ridgefield, Conn.
• Index
• "List of soldiers from Ridgefield in the world war": p. 326-340.
• "Ridgefield men in the revolution": p. 137-145.
• "Individual records of revolutionary soldiers": p. 147-196.

Errata

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• <ref name=Rockwell>Rockwell, George Lounsbury. ''[[Space:The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut|The History of Ridgefield, Connecticut]]'' (Ridgefield, Conn., 1927) [ Page ].</ref>