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20,779. 2000. 25,031. Newtown Meeting House served as the town's Congregational Church for many years. The town of Newtown, originally known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. In 1708, 36 Connecticut Englishmen petitioned the General Assembly to settle an area north of Stratford (at least seven men previously had ...
The Newtown Bee is a weekly newspaper for Newtown, Connecticut. Founded by John T. Pearce [1] in 1877, the Bee has been published continuously by the Smith family. [2] The Bee is owned by Bee Publishing Company. [2] The company also publishes Antiques and the Arts Weekly .
0213475. Website. www.newtown-ct.gov. Newtown (/ ˈnutaʊn / NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,173. [3]
Cover of the Newtown Bee, Dec. 21, 2012. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News) CNN's Anderson Cooper checks his phone in between live shots in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 15, 2012.
The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but ...
Norwich. Norwich Packet or, the Country Journal, 1785. Newspapers published in Norwich, Connecticut: Chelsea Courier, W., Nov. 30, 1796-May 24, 1798 [13] The Courier, W., May 31, 1798-Mar. 15, 1800 [13] The Oxford English Dictionary attests the first recorded use of the term "Hello" to The Courier in 1826.
History. Antiques and The Arts Weekly was founded in 1963 by R. Scudder Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee, a newspaper covering Newtown, Connecticut that was founded by Smith's grandfather in 1877. [ 2 ] in 1988 the Weekly had a paid circulation of 23,000 in Europe, Canada and the United States. [ 2 ] A publication for the trade, the Weekly ...
The Borough of Newtown occupies about 1,252 acres (5.07 km 2) (or roughly two square miles) in the central part of town. Incorporated in 1824 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly, it is one of only nine remaining boroughs in the state. The borough adopted zoning for the town center long before the rest of the community.