Newtown, Connecticut

Edmund Town Hall, Newtown CT

Meeting House, Newtown CT

I stopped in Newtown looking for a doughnut.  I didn't find one but the general store did have a really tasty homemade crumb cake. 

The town hall pulls double-duty as the village's movie theater.  I liked that.  According to Wikipedia, the theater is the only $2 theater in Connecticut.

The rooster weather vane on top of the meeting house was used as target practice by French troops before they headed toward Yorktown in 1781. 

At the intersection between the town hall and meeting house is a 100-foot tall flag pole erected in 1876 to celebrate the nation's centennial.  I didn't take a photo so you'll have to take my word that it is impressive.

Other fascinating facts about Newtown:  The game of Scrabble was invented here;  the town was a stop on the Underground Railroad; Charles Goodyear was born here; and decathlete Bruce Jenner and actor Anthony Edwards were raised in Newtown.

Comments

[cheryl]

1781. That's an old weather vane.

Here in Kansas, we don't have many items that represent the 18th Century. And as far as buildings go, there's not much still standing here that's more than 100 years old.

It's always amazing to travel to the East Coast and see Revolutionary War stuff.

[Joe]

The apartment building I moved to in Lincoln was across the street from the oldest house in town. It was a museum so my dad and I took the tour. We were impressed until we realized my father's farmhouse back in New York was almost as old.

More Revolutionary War stuff soon to follow!