|
Cannondale is within the town of Wilton in Fairfield County, Connecticut. It had a population of 141 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Cannondale CDP, Connecticut )〕 The neighborhood is one of the wealthier sections of a wealthy town, with many old homes on large, almost rural lots now largely wooded. The English first settled the land in the 17th century. At the center of Cannondale is Cannon Crossing, a small shopping development of boutiques and restaurants made up of 19th-century buildings restored by the actress June Havoc on the east side of Cannondale Railroad Station. Both are part of Cannondale Historic District, which encompasses the central part of Cannondale and most of the significant historical buildings in it. The area was originally called "Pimpewaug" by the local Indians, and it was the name originally used by the colonial settlers. The Cannon family became prominent in the area, in part because of the Cannon Store, which started operating in the 1790s. In March 1852, the Danbury & Norwalk Railroad opened a station in the neighborhood, near where the tracks crossed Cannon Road, and named it Cannon Station. Soon after, Charles Cannon began a campaign to get a post office in the neighborhood, and on April 29, 1870 it became a reality in a store east of the railroad tracks (very probably in a building which also functioned as a general store and the train station). At this point, the neighborhood became known as "Cannon Station". In 1882, the U.S. Post Office changed the local office's name to "Cannon", then changed it back to Cannon Station in 1896. The similarity of "Cannon" and "Canaan", a town on the northern border of the state, caused residents to want a further adjustment in the name. In November 1915 the post office name was changed to Cannondale. The post office was closed in 1967 but the name remains, generally covering an area centered on the intersection of Danbury Road (U.S. Route 7) and Cannon Road.〔Wilton Historical Society, ''Cannondale: A Connecticut Neighborhood'', 1987〕 In 1915, Samuel Miller, who was instrumental in the final name change, acquired a cannon which had been used in the Civil War battle of Galveston. It was placed at the intersection of Danbury and Cannon roads and toppled twice, once as a Halloween prank and another time in an automobile accident.〔 ==Geography and soil== Cannondale is in the east-central part of Wilton, just north of Wilton Center (Wilton's downtown area). Route 7, the Norwalk River and the train tracks (now the Danbury Line of Metro-North Railroad) all run close to each other from south-southwest to north-northeast through the neighborhood. At its widest, the neighborhood stretches from east to west and from north to south. The Norwalk River valley is above sea level in the north of Cannondale and descends to above sea level at the southern end of the neighborhood. Turner Ridge, the western border of Cannondale, rises as high as , but the ridges east of the river are high. At the far eastern side of the neighborhood are the Saugatuck River and Wilton's border with the town of Weston.〔 According to ''Cannondale: A Connecticut Neighborhood'' (hereafter referred to as "CACN"), published by the Wilton Historical Society, "The soil that graces Cannondale () remains, arguably, the best in the state", with dark brown, sometimes red-tinted, surface soil of a type that extends from New Milford in the north down to the shore of Long Island Sound and named "Wilton Loam".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cannondale, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|