Brookfield Patch Ct (2024)

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What is Brookfield CT famous for? ›

Brookfield was a thriving town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation. The grist mill still stands, as the Brookfield Craft Center.

On September 28, 1757, the first Congregational Church building was dedicated, and the Reverend Thomas Brooks was ordained as the first settled minister. In 1778 the Town was incorporated. The name Newbury was changed to Brookfield in honor of the Reverend Thomas Brooks, who was still the minister.

Overall I would say it is one of the best places in Connecticut to raise a family. The only reason for the crime rate to appear high is because Brookfield has great shopping options with Costco, BJ's and Kohls in town along with many others. So thefts = shoplifters. The town is very safe, with little serious crime.

Brookfield was originally inhabited by Sac and Potawatomi Native Americans. They were displaced by white settlers in the early nineteenth century. Most of Brookfield's first white settlers were New Yorkers or German. The name itself comes from the community of Brookfield, New York.

Brookfield is a leading global investment firm with more than $925 billion in assets under management. We invest on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world with the goal of helping them to create long-term, sustainable wealth.

Who Owns Brookfield Corporation (BN)? According to the latest TipRanks data, approximately 35.97% of the company's stock is held by institutional investors, 24.64% is held by insiders, and 27.60% is held by retail investors.

Bruce Flatt is the Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield, a global investment firm focused on alternative asset management, wealth solutions, and its operating businesses, with nearly $1 trillion in assets under management. Mr. Flatt joined Brookfield in 1990 and became CEO in 2002.

Brookfield has an overall crime rate of 9 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Brookfield is 1 in 108.

1. Darien. The richest town in Connecticut is Darien, with a median household income of $251,200. Darien is a small town on Connecticut's gold coast that is home to approximately 6,759 people.

What was the history of Brookfield? ›

History. The company was founded in 1899 as the São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company by William Mackenzie and Frederick Stark Pearson. It operated in the construction and management of electricity and transport infrastructure in Brazil.

Brookfield Place (previously named and still commonly referred to as the World Financial Center) is a shopping center and office building complex in the New York City borough of Manhattan.