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unusual facts about Norwalk, CT



ABB Group

Also, in the early 1990s, ABB purchased Combustion Engineering (C-E), headquartered in Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, a leading U.S. firm in the development of conventional fossil fuel power and nuclear power supply systems to break into the North American market.

Andy Patterson

Andrew Patterson (born January 19, 1964 in Norwalk, California U.S.) was an American professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1977 to 1985.

Applera

Applera Corporation of Norwalk, Connecticut, at #874 on the 2007 Fortune 1000 list, was one of the largest international biotechnology companies based in the United States.

Arthur Wheeler

Arthur Canfield Wheeler (1856–1941), mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (1895–1897)

Brenda Villa

In 2005, Villa became assistant coach of the women's water polo team at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California.

Burndy

The Burndy Library, a 67,000-volume collection of rare books and original manuscripts was housed in Norwalk, Connecticut from 1964 until after Bern Dibner's death in 1988, when the contents were moved to the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Byron Andrews

Byron Andrews was the eldest child of John Cain Andrews(born in Norwalk, Ohio) and Sarah Wright(born in Barlestone, England).

Charles Glover

Charles L. Glover (1842–1916), six-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut

Chester Nimitz, Jr.

He later joined Perkin-Elmer Corporation, a manufacturer of scientific instruments based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Colleen Lovett

: Taped with live audience, Golden West Ballroom, Norwalk, California, KCOP-TV, taped the week of August between August 7 and August 13, 1965

Commerce, California

In the 1970s and 1980s, Commerce successfully negotiated the turbulent period of deindustrialization that hammered nearby cities such as South Gate and Norwalk, maintaining much of its manufacturing and goods-distribution base and successfully converting former industrial land to lucrative commercial uses.

Connecticut Yankees

Connecticut Yankees RFC, a rugby union team based in Norwalk, Connecticut

Country Yumkins

The initial 9 Yumkin dolls (Sweetie Pea, Lushie Peach, Reddie Tomato, Cobbie Corn, Snappy Bean, Juicy Pineapple, Cocky Crow, Shoo-Shoo Scarecrow, and Fluffy Lamb) were made by a company called Trudy based in Norwalk, CT.

Dan Wickline

Born in Norwalk, California, Wickline currently resides in Los Angeles where he spends his time on freelance writing projects and photo shoots.

East Norwalk Historical Cemetery

Samuel Daskam, warden of the Borough of Norwalk from 1874 to 1877

Ebenezer J. Hill

Hill was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 27, 1917.

Edward Finnegan

Edward J. Finnegan (c. 1862–?), mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1910–1913

Edward P. Weed

Edward P. Weed (April 7, 1834 – April 18, 1880) was Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1867 to 1868, and in 1874 until his resignation.

Eliphalet Lockwood

Lockwood organized the first voluntary fire department in Norwalk.

Ellen Hanley

Ellen Hanley died on February 12, 2007, aged 80, in Norwalk, Connecticut of a stroke after a long battle with cancer.

Fairfield County Railroad

Professor Alexander C. Twining of Yale University surveyed a route to follow the Saugatuck River to a spot near Compo Point in Westport and another route to a spot near Wilson's Point in South Norwalk.

George Gregory

George S. Gregory (1846–?), Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1887–1888

Irving Freese

Irving C. Freese (February 19, 1903 – September 11, 1964) was the mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Joseph W. Hubbell

Joseph W. Hubbell (October 12, 1800 – February 13, 1884) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk from 1839 to 1841, and the first Warden of the Borough of Norwalk after its incorporation.

Kevin Morton

Kevin Joseph Morton (born August 3, 1968 in Norwalk, Connecticut 1986 graduate of Brien McMahon High School) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Marco Antonio Firebaugh High School

He received the honor of having a school named after him while alive; other examples include Earl Warren, for which Warren High School in Downey, California was originally named, and John Glenn, for which John Glenn High School in Norwalk, California was named.

Matthew Canfield

Apparent his departure from Norwalk is based upon some dissatisfaction with the union of the New Haven and Hartford colonies.

Media Storm

The company is headquartered at 99 Washington Street, in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut and also has an office at 170 Varick Street in New York, NY.

Nancy V. Rawls

Rawls died April 13, 1985 at the Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, after a long illness.

Norwalk Catholic Schools

The responsibility for its operation is shared between the Norwalk-area Roman Catholic parishes of St. Mary Mother of the Redeemer Church and St. Paul the Apostle in Norwalk and St. Anthony of Padua in Milan.

Norwalk, Wisconsin

Norwalk, Wisconsin was given its name by Selium McGary, one of the pioneers of Monroe County, who named it after Norwalk, Ohio, where he had previously lived.

Ohio State Route 601

Heading north from there, along the west side of SR 601 is Summit Motorsports Park, and immediately to the north of that, Norwalk-Huron County Airport.

Orris S. Ferry

On April 18, 1861 this report mobilized loyal citizens, including Ferry, and state senator A. Homer Byington, also of Norwalk to form a militia.

Peter Cunningham

Peter L. Cunningham (1814–1899), mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (1883–1884)

Remy Zaken

Remy Zaken, born May 9, 1989 in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American stage and television actress, best known as one of the youngest cast members in the Original Broadway production of Spring Awakening at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, playing the role of Thea.

Robert Alexander Wason

Over his life he lived in Ohio, Indiana, San Francisco, Detroit, Orr's Island, Maine, Temple, Arizona, Arden, Delaware, Norwalk, Connecticut, and Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.

Shyster

Carlito's Way (1993 crime film), Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is told by a police inspector inside District Attorney Norwalk's (James Rebhorn) office that his Jewish lawyer and friend Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) tried to set him up.

Silvermine

Silvermine, Connecticut, a neighborhood in parts of New Canaan, Wilton and Norwalk

Sono

South Norwalk or "SoNo", a neighborhood in Norwalk, Connecticut

South Norwalk

In 1913, South Norwalk combined with the Town of Norwalk, the City (formerly Borough) of Norwalk, and the East Norwalk fire district into the present day City of Norwalk.

South Norwalk Railroad Bridge

The bridge is adjacent to the South Norwalk Switch Tower Museum, which showcases the railroad switch tower where tracks were physically switched at the intersection of the Danbury Branch and the New Haven Line.

The South Norwalk Railroad Bridge is an 1895 bridge in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Thomas Fitch

Thomas Fitch, V (1725–1795), representative from Norwalk to the Connecticut House of Representatives, traditionally believed to be the original "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

William Hubbell

William B. Hubbell (1852–?), mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut, 1887–1888

William J. Street

William Jarvis Street (June 16, 1784 – December 18, 1847) (also recorded as William I. Street) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk from 1817 to 1818.

WKSU-FM

WKSU-FM also extends its signal by using two translators and four full-power repeaters: DW204AJ/Wooster (88.7 FM), W239AZ/Ashland (95.7 FM), WKSV/Thompson (89.1 FM), WKRW/Wooster (89.3 FM), WNRK/Norwalk (90.7 FM), and WKRJ/New Philadelphia (91.5 FM).

WLKR

WLKR-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) located in Norwalk, Ohio, United States

WSHB

The WSHB signal is planned to serve the Norwalk, Bellevue, Attica, New Washington, New London, Shiloh and Shelby areas not covered by sister stations WFOT and WHRQ, thus making it the sixth Catholic station in the Toledo Diocese.


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