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7 unusual facts about Danbury


Albert L. Hopkins

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Chelmsford Radio

Chelmsford Radio broadcasts on 107.7 MHz from a mobile phone mast at Church Green in the village Danbury.

Danbury, Essex

The history of the park and garden was researched by Kate Felus in 2007.

Danbury, New Hampshire

In 1795, it was set off and incorporated, the name suggested by a settler from Danbury, Connecticut.

Danbury, North Carolina

General George Stoneman's raid passed through Danbury on April 9, 1865, the day of the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House, Va.

Danbury, Wisconsin

St. Croix Chippewa Indians Band from the Lake Superior Chippewa holds it annual St. Croix Wild Rice Pow-wow hosting drums and singers from all over North America.

Morton Dean Joyce

The Morton Dean Joyce Collection of United States Revenue Stamps was sold at the Daniel F. Kelleher Company auction June 4 to 6, 1991 and by the auction house of Andrew Levitt, in Danbury, Connecticut, in six sessions from September 12 to 14.


Annette Badland

Badland has performed in several radio dramas including BBC Radio 4's Rolling Home (2001), Smelling of Roses (2003) and an adaptation of George MacDonald's novel At the Back of the North Wind; lead role as DC Gwen Danbury in An Odd Body on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Barden Corporation

Barden Corporation is a ball bearing manufacturer based in Danbury, Connecticut, USA with factories in Danbury, Winsted, Connecticut and in Plymouth, England.

C-QUAM

Among those stations are CFCB/570: Corner Brook, NL; CFCO/630: Chatham, Ontario (covering SW Ontario, Eastern Michigan and Northern Ohio); WLS/890 (now during both day and night hours): Chicago, Illinois; WNMB/900: North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; WBLQ/1230: Westerly, Rhode Island; WIRY/1340: Plattsburgh, New York; WAXB/850: Ridgefield, Connecticut; and WLAD/800: Danbury, Connecticut.

Carlos Lehder

In the movie Blow (2001), Carlos Lehder is portrayed as Diego Delgado (by the Spanish actor Jordi Mollà), the cellmate of the main character George Jung at Danbury federal prison, who became Jung's good friend and business partner, and later his nemesis.

Charles Ives House

At informal gatherings in the house, the younger Ives would help found the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad, still in use today as the Danbury Branch of Metro-North's New Haven Line, and the Savings Bank of Danbury, one of the earliest local banks.

Danbury Fair

The Danbury Fair Paul Bunyan was eventually painted like a "hippy" and moved to Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York (home of annual Woodstock reunions).

Danbury Museum and Historical Society

The historic John Rider House was built in 1785, by a Danbury carpenter John Rider, who also served as a captain in the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, and his wife Mary.

David Armand

Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not to Live Your Life as Eddie Singh, the overenthusiastic former caregiver for the late grandmother of the show's leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark).

Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury

In a Season 7 episode of CSI: NY, entitled "Identity Crisis", it is revealed that the biological mother of Detective Jo Danville's adopted daughter, Ellie, is serving a long sentence at FCI Danbury.

The Netflix television series Orange Is The New Black is based on the memoir of former inmate Piper Kerman and takes place in a prison based on FCI Danbury.

In the 1995 film The American President, White House aide Lewis Rothschild, played by Michael J. Fox, says "Say what you want. It's always the guy in my job that ends up doing 18 months in Danbury minimum security prison."

Ives House

Charles Ives House, Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut

James Furman

He was also choral director for both the BBC documentary film on the life of Charles Ives, and the Leonard Bernstein American Symphony Orchestra Ives Centennial Concert held at the Danbury State Fairgrounds in Danbury, Connecticut on July 4, 1974.

John Rider House

The John Rider House is located on Main Street (CT 53) in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

Leon Van Speybroeck

The Chandra x-ray mirrors resulted from over two decades of collaboration between Van Speybroeck and colleagues at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and scientists and engineers affiliated with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, TRW Inc., Hughes-Danbury (now BF Goodrich Aerospace), Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc.

New Haven Line

A station planned for Georgetown on the Danbury Branch has been temporarily shelved.

News-Times

The News-Times, a newspaper in the U.S. city of Danbury, Connecticut

Peekskill Downtown Historic District

The Albany Post Road, followed later by US 9 until its relocation to the Croton Expressway closer to the river, and the Danbury Turnpike, still followed by US 202 (and, in the western part of the city and district, US 6 and NY 35).

Sybil Ludington

of the statue exist on the grounds of the Daughters of the American Revolution Headquarters in Washington, DC; on the grounds of the public library, Danbury, Connecticut; and in the Elliot and Rosemary Offner museum at Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

The News-Times

Dean Singleton, chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, told News-Times employees the paper would remain independent of the larger Connecticut Post, even though the Danbury paper’s publisher will report to the publisher of the Post, The News-Times reported.

The Time of Their Lives

Nora happens to overhear Danbury discussing his part in Benedict Arnold's plot; Danbury captures her, and hides the commendation letter in a secret compartment of the mantel clock.

Western Connecticut Health Network

Western Connecticut Health Network is a patient-centered system of care formed in 2010 by Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital and their affiliated organizations to serve communities in Connecticut and nearby New York State.


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