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7 unusual facts about Ridgefield


22998 Waltimyer

It was named after David Waltimyer, a teacher at Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Hilda Spong

Hilda Spong (14 May 1875 London – 16 May 1955 Ridgefield, Connecticut USA), was an acclaimed English actress of stage and screen, appearing in Australia, Europe, and America.

Patty Smyth

They debuted their first single as a band ("Hard For You To Love Me", also referred to as "Make It Hard") in over 24 years on January 17, 2009 in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Robertson Kirtland Mygatt

Mygatt resided in Ridgefield, Connecticut, before dying in 1919 at 58 years old in New York City.

Sacha Sosno

Then in the year following he had his first one-man show in the United States at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

U-Haul

In 1945, at the age of 29, Leonard Shoen co-founded U-Haul with his wife, Anna Mary Carty, in the town of Ridgefield, Washington.

The company was founded by Leonard Shoen (L. S. "Sam" Shoen) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and expanded through franchising with gas stations.


Anthony Cekada

Following his sacerdotal ordination, Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph's House of Studies, Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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.

Englewood Township, New Jersey

On March 17, 1899, the remainder of Englewood Township was combined with parts of Ridgefield Township to form Englewood, New Jersey (City).

Huma Bhabha

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., awarded its 2008 Emerging Artist Award to Bhabha.

John Neville Wheeler

When he died on October 13, 1973, in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the age of 87, his obituary in the Ridgefield Press described him as one who "never quit newspapering, permanently, until his death." Cape Wheeler in Antarctica was named for him.

Kysa Johnson

In the Spring of 2007, Johnson had a solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT.

Max Wilk

His fiction includes Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; the movie version starred Jerry Lewis and shifted the locale from "Green Haven" (based on Ridgefield) to London, England.

New Jersey Route 5

Pre-1927 Route 10 was legislated in 1916 to run from Paterson east by way of Hackensack and Ridgefield to the Public Service Railway's Fort Lee Ferry at Edgewater.

However, the plans were modified in 1929 to build Route 6 on a new alignment and have Route 5 end at Route 1 (now U.S. Route 1/9) in Ridgefield.

Norwalk Hospital

In April 2007, Norwalk Hospital announced that its principal location on Maple Street would be renovated and four new medical facilities would be created, three in Norwalk and one in the Georgetown, Connecticut community that covers parts of Redding, Ridgefield, Weston and Wilton, Connecticut.

Olivia De Berardinis

De Berardinis was one of the new artists introduced in the Second Annual Contemporary Reflections 1972-73, of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Ridgefield Park High School

13 of the 17 students featured in the 1978 documentary film Scared Straight! were from Ridgefield Park High School.

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Overpeck Township was formed on March 23, 1897, to be coextensive with Ridgefield Park village, and was created within Ridgefield Township for the purpose of administering a Board of Education.

St Ann's Church, Manchester

By 1735, buildings had begun to rise on the south side of Acres Field and King Street and Ridgefield came into being.

Thomas Hyatt House

The Thomas Hyatt House, also known as the Cashman House, is a Colonial style house built in Ridgefield, Connecticut, circa 1735.

Winifred Ann Lutz

Past locations of her installations have included MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT.


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