Libraries: Danbury Public Library, Main Street Danbury   Danbury Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, and is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut. The city was named for the place of origin of many of the early settlers, Danbury, Essex, in England, and has been nicknamed Hat City, because it used to be a center of the hat industry, at one point producing almost 25% of America’s hats. Danbury is home to the Danbury Hospital, as well as Danbury High School and Western Connecticut State University. Bethel Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about sixty miles from New York City. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). The core area of the town center has also been designated as a historic district. The town is near Interstate 84 and has a train station on the Danbury Branch of Metro-North’s New Haven Line. Brookfield Brookfield is a town located in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. First settled in 1710 by John Muirwood and several other colonial founders who bartered for the land From the Wyantenuck Nation Under the Sachem Waramaugs who lived in a enormous Palisade along the Still River. It was named after the first minister of the parishs Congregational church, Reverend Thomas Brooks. New Fairfield New Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,881 at the 2010 census. The town is considered part of the greater New York Metropolitan Area and lies approximately from New York City. New Fairfield is one of five towns that surround Candlewood Lake, the largest lake in Connecticut. New Milford New Milford is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States north of Danbury, on the Housatonic River. It is the largest town in the state in terms of land area at nearly. The town center is also listed as a census-designated place (CDP). New Milford is home to the Canterbury School, a well-known Roman Catholic boarding school. Newtown Newtown is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Newtown was founded in 1705 and incorporated in 1711. Originally known as Quanneapague, Newtown was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. An important crossroads throughout its early history, the village of Hawleyville briefly emerged as a railroad center, and the town's population grew to over 4,000 circa 1881. Redding Redding is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to Fairfield County and state records from the time Redding was formed, the original name of the town was Reading, after the town in Berkshire, England. Probably more accurately, however, town history attributes the name to John Read, an early major landholder who was a prominent lawyer in Boston as well as a former Congregationalist preacher who converted to Anglicanism. Ridgefield Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States and is situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The town center, which was formerly a borough, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place.