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In June 1757, barely a month after the Connecticut General Assembly created the Norfield Society, David Coley, Nathan Morris, and David Godfrey summoned the first meeting. The petition had been drafted by men from Green's Farms and Greenfield Societies (then Fairfield), and from the Norwalk Society -- thus the name Norfield. It was an ecclesiastical society founded in the Puritan tradition. The new society would levy taxes, build a meeting house, provide education, and maintain roads, as well as direct the spiritual and social life of its members. The present building, dedicated in 1831, is the third Norfield meeting house. The property on which it was built was given to the parish by Thaddeus Burr for military parades, drilling exercises, a school, or whatever else ". . . the People Shall think proper." In the photo (ca 1880) above, the long shed in the rear was for carriages and the small building in front of the shed was the Middle District School. |
