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Cannondale is a section of the Town of Wilton in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The actress June Havoc created the Cannondale Historic District, a collection of old buildings mostly moved to a site abutting the east side of Cannondale Railroad Station. The neighborhood is one of the wealthier sections of a wealthy town, with many old homes on large, almost rural lots now largely wooded. It has been inhabited since Colonial times.

The area was originally called "Pimpewaug" by the 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 Sttion". In 1882, the U.S. Post Office changed the local office's name to "Cannon", then changed it back to Cannon Station in 1896. In November 1915 the post office name was changed again, 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.

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 2.1 miles from east to west and 2.8 miles from north to south. The Norwalk River valley is 250 feet above sea level in the north of Cannondale and descends to 200 feet above sea level at the southern end of the neighborhood. Turner Ridge, the western border of Cannondale, rises as high as 500 feet, but the ridges east of the river are 350 to 450 feet high. At the far eastern side of the neighborhood are the Saugatuck River and Wilton's border with the town of Weston, Connecticut.

According to Cannondale: A Connecticut Neighborhood, 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".

Transportation

The Cannondale station is part of the Danbury Line of Metro-North railroad.

Notes

1. ^ Wilton Historical Society, Cannondale: A Connecticut Neighborhood, 1987

External links

• Cannondale on google maps

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