The Dingle is the name given to a wooded spot west of Pond Brook in Newtown by the WPA.

Glover Hawley was Newtown’s first postmaster.

Shepard Hill Road was once called Hawley Folly Road.

“Pootatuck” was the Colonial name for Newtown. A closer equivalent to the Indian word is Pautucket, or more exactly, the Mohegan pawntuckuck, which denotes “the country above the falls.”

Newtown was first named as “New Town” in May, 1708.

There are Newtowns in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Budd House, located at 50 Main Street in Newtown, was the first residential listing for Newtown on the National Register of Historic Places. The house, built in 1869 for Henry Beers Glover, was first called The Glover House.

Newtown Hook & Ladder is the oldest firefighting company in the town of Newtown. At its inception, each member was expected to provide buckets and ladders.

Women first voted in elections held in Newtown in October 1920.

Mary Elizabeth Hawley’s first gift to the town of Newtown was The Hawley School. It was dedicated in 1922.

Mary Elizabeth Hawley, who has become “the benefactress of Newtown,” was the first of four children born to her parents, Sarah (Booth) and Marcus Clinton Hawley.

Hawley School, dedicated in 1922, was the first public building in Newtown to have central heating (with coal), indoor plumbing, a gymnasium and an auditorium.

A bell atop Edmond Town Hall was rung for the first time when the town of Newtown honored the funeral cortege of Mary Elizabeth Hawley.

The first public swimming facility in the town of Newtown was a large swimming pool dug at Dickinson Park in 1956. Dickinson was the town’s first park, established one year earlier.

Academy Lane was named for the Newtown Academy, originally built in 1937 to serve the need for education beyond the district’s elementary level.

Aunt Park and Phyllis Lane, both in Newtown, pay tribute to two 19th Century women who were known for the medicinal remedies they grew or found in nearby woods and fields.

Bennetts Bridge Road in Newtown led to one of the earliest bridges to cross the Housatonic, connecting Newtown with the Kettletown section of Southbury. The family name Bennett was common in the town’s early history.

Great Ring Road, in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, reflects a local legend that the spot was where hunters (possibly Indians) formed a great ring to drive game to the top of a hill.

The Hattertown area of Newtown was the site of several hat factories during the 19th Century.

Lake George Road in Newtown never ran along the bank of a body of water. It was named for two local property owners, Thomas Lake and George Bank.

The man-made Lake Lillinonah was created in 1955 and named for an Indian princess who, according to legend, jumped to her death from Lover’s Leap on the Housatonic River.

Philo Curtis Road in Sandy Hook was named for a Newtown selectman elected in 1843.

Queen Street was christened in honor of Queen Anne, who ruled England from 1702 until 1714.

Sugar Street and Sugar Lane in Newtown were named for large sugar maple trees that once lined the road from Newtown to Bethel.

Wendover Road acquired its picturesque name in the 1940s, when residents voted by an 8-7 margin to replace “Carcass Lane.” A slaughterhouse had once been located at the end of the passageway.

In the 1800s, Newtown had more button shops than any other town in the state.

Three Connecticut governors have either been born or lived in Newtown: Isaac Tousey (elected 1846), Henry Dutton (1854) and Luzon B. Morris (1869).

Aviation pioneer and early air mail pilot Richard Botsford was a descendant of one of Newtown’s founding families.

A cooler used by astronauts was invented in Newtown in 1969.

Newtown resident R.E. Fulton, Jr, invented a sky hook for use by the US Navy in 1960.

The “kabob” skewer, used for cooking over a fireplace or grill, was devised in Newtown in 1948.

Dr Henry Rogers of Newtown developed an optics camera in 1947.

In 1931, Edward B. Allen of Newtown invented a work clamp for the Singer Sewing Machine.