Lakeville (Salisbury, Connecticut)
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| Lakeville Historic District | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| U.S. Historic District | |
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| Location: | Bounded by Millerton Rd., Sharon Rd., Allen St., and Holley St., Salisbury, Connecticut |
| Coordinates: | 41°57′51″N 73°26′31″W / 41.96417°N 73.44194°W |
| Built/Founded: | 1748 |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Architectural style(s): | Colonial Revival, Italianate, Federal |
| Governing body: | Local |
| Added to NRHP: | August 01, 1996 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 96000845 |
Lakeville is a village in Salisbury in Litchfield County, Connecticut, on Lake Wononskopomuc. The town contains the Hotchkiss School, founded in 1891 and Lime Rock Park, a road course auto racing facility. The village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ethan Allen made munitions in Lakeville during the American Revolution.
Until 1846, Lakeville was called "Furnace Village", due to the location there of one of the early blast furnaces of the historic Salisbury iron industry.
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the Hotchkiss gun was born in Lakeville. The Hotchkiss School, founded by his widow, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, is located in Lakeville. It was originally a boys' boarding school but later became coeducational.
In 1938, Alfred Korzybski founded the Institute of General Semantics at a country estate in the Lakeville neighbourhood Lime Rock, and directed it until his death in 1950. The Institute remained there until 1981 when it moved elsewhere.[2]
Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska was a resident of Lakeville from 1949 until her death in 1959.
In the early 1950s, the well-known Belgian-French writer Georges Simenon resided for several years in Shadow Rock Farm, a large house in Lakeville. The town forms the background for Simenon's novel "La Mort de Belle" ("The Death of Belle"), depicting its small town quiet life being shattered by the (fictional) murder of a young girl. It was later adapted to film, released as Passion of Slow Fire, or The End of Belle (see [1])
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
- ^ History of the Institute
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