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  • Collection: Ridgefield in WWI

Gov. Street Photo.jpg
While typically postcards of this era depict scenery of wildlife or buildings, this one has a family in the picture. The picture is off the north side of Governor Street, which Gov. Lounsbury had a home built. Maps of the town reveal that the house…

photos_010.jpg
There are three photographs taken in this image. The upper left one has several well dressed individuals walking down a street as part of some ceremony. The second on the upper right is of Cora Weir in uniform. The third at the bottom of the page has…

WLA Training School Poster.jpg
The WLA had a camp in Ridgefield which organized women to take over the traditionally male role of providing food for the family through farming and harvesting crops. Ridgefield had thirty women (mostly students) who came to Ridgefield to work the…

Weir Farm Historic Site Visitor Center
This is a building built to serve as the central piece to the site and help manage visitors.

Main Street 1910.JPG
Post card of Ridgefield crica 1910

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