62-630: [REDACTED] Look up lakeside in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lakeside or Lake Side may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Lakeside College , Pakenham, Victoria Lakeside Joondalup shopping centre Joondalup, Western Australia Lakeside, near Reservoir, Victoria Lakeside International Raceway , Pine Rivers, Queensland Lakeside Mental Hospital , formerly known as Ballarat Lunatic Asylum, Ballarat, Victoria Lakeside railway station, Melbourne , on
124-416: A brickyard; tanneries; cattle dealers; and smithies where workers shoed animals, produced knives and made other implements. Mass production and new technologies threatened these small businesses in much the same way rising costs and external competition had affected agriculture. Through the late 1800s and early 1900s, manufacturing shifted to larger towns and cities like Waterbury, which flourished well into
186-604: A corruption of the Algonquian word Peantum , the Potatuck group who lived in the area. Representatives from Hartford and Windsor negotiated with the Potatuck for land, creating the town of Litchfield, which included the area later known as the South Farms, in 1720. The Potatuck reserved rights to a hunting lodge near today's Mount Tom and Mt. Tom Pond, both of which became part of a 231-acre (93 ha) state park on
248-614: A family-owned amusement park in Lakeside, Colorado Lakeside Amusement Park (Virginia) , a defunct amusement park Lakeside Drive , Washoe County, Nevada Lakeside Inn (Lakeside, Michigan) , a historic hotel Lakeside Mall , Sterling Heights, Michigan Lakeside Mountains , Utah Lakeside Lake , Tucson, Arizona Lakeside Park (Owasco, New York) , a historic "pleasure ground" park Lake Side Power Station , Vineyard, Utah Lake-Side Terrace Apartments , Chicago, Illinois Other uses [ edit ] Lakeside (band) ,
310-702: A farm to some degree, …much the same … agricultural economy" as a century before. Two years later, young men from Morris were serving in the Union Army , mostly in the 19th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry—later the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment —organized in Litchfield. By the end of the Civil War , at least 33 Morris men had fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, from Cold Harbor to Atlanta to Petersburg . Five had died. Resident Mary Stockbridge said that when "one after another of
372-643: A few hours on and about this beautiful sheet of water." In 1786 and again in 1810, the South Farms Society had sought Litchfield's permission to form a separate town because of concerns about autonomy similar to those that had prompted the earlier petition for a separate parish. Litchfield successfully opposed both in the General Assembly. In 1859, however, the Assembly approved the voters' petition for separation. In it, they had described
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496-402: A handful of main roads. Telephones, television, radio, and the roads connected Morris to the rest of the world. Second-home owners from metro New York added to its diversity. But in some ways, the town was not so different from what it had been in the 1800s. Although it was only two hours by car from New York City, its relative isolation protected it from heedless development and urban sprawl. On
558-441: A hillside near the intersection of the old Woodbury (now Higbie) Road and present-day Benton Road. The work took them away from planting, diminished the year's harvest, and was consequently unpopular. The structure fell fairly rapidly into disrepair. Colonial government policies and military action reduced the likelihood of conflict with native groups by 1726, when two European families lived near today's Litchfield-Morris border on
620-453: A living by farming alone. The other main economic driver in 19th- and early 20th-century Morris was its collection of water mills, general stores, and other small businesses, some of which had begun as home industries. One of the more interesting, if somewhat anomalous, businesses during this period was a copper mine on east end land purchased by P.T. Barnum in 1850. Located on 46 acres (19 ha) near Saw Mill Brook (later dammed to create
682-716: A locality in Selwyn District Singapore [ edit ] Lakeside MRT station , an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West MRT line in Jurong West South Africa [ edit ] Lakeside, Johannesburg United Kingdom [ edit ] Lakeside, Cardiff , near Cyncoed , Wales Lakeside, Cumbria , at the southern end of Windermere, England Lakeside, Llanelli , Wales Lakeside, Worcestershire , England Lakeside Arts Centre , part of
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#1732773371080744-622: A north–south track (now Alain White Road) that was more central to the area. At least thirty families very probably lived in South Farms by 1747, since it had a school, which the General Assembly required of places with that number. Meanwhile, colonial policies and disease had decimated the Potatuck. Some who remained merged with other nearby bands to form the Schaghticoke tribe , which still exists in Kent today. Individuals lived alongside
806-480: A range of opportunities for outdoor sports and recreation. Camp Washington is a spiritual retreat operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut . Morris center looks like a typical small New England village, with a white Congregational church, a school, and town hall. Interspersed with fields and woods, a mix of Early American and newer homes strings out loosely along the town's roads. Children attend
868-517: A separate Congregational parish in 1767 and incorporated as a town in 1859, it was named after native son James Morris , a Yale graduate, Revolutionary War officer, and founder of one of the first co-educational secondary schools in the nation. Morris lies in rolling hill country of woods, wetlands, fields and ponds. It also encompasses much of Bantam Lake , originally called the Great Pond, which covers approximately 947 acres (383 ha) and
930-510: A time, the newly built Shepaug Railroad took milk from West Morris to New York City, but dealers there collaborated to lower the prices they paid the farmers and to increase their own profits. The farmers responded with a cooperative that sold and delivered their milk, but they were still competing with other producers from other areas. In 1892, they voted to accept a half cent a quart less than twenty years earlier. They invented new organizations and adopted new practices. In 1934, they created
992-552: Is a town in Litchfield County , Connecticut , United States. The population was 2,256 at the 2020 census . The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region . Europeans first began to settle the area that became Morris circa 1723. Originally part of the town of Litchfield , it was called the South Farms because of its location 5 miles (8 km) south of the center. Designated
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1116-514: Is the largest natural lake in the state. The traditional Town of Morris seal features the pine on Lone Tree Hill, which overlooks the lake. Morris is home to one of the oldest state parks in Connecticut, as well as to one of the newest. The area's transition from 18th-century settlement to semi-rural community in the 2000s is the story of many Connecticut towns and much of New England. At first, farming barely made families self-sufficient, but in
1178-704: The Continental Army instead, fighting at Long Island and White Plains before being captured at the Battle of Germantown in Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned in Philadelphia , paroled on Long Island, and subsequently exchanged. In the last years of the war, he served as a captain of light infantry under Alexander Hamilton at the Battle of Yorktown . After the war, Morris returned to South Farms, where he cared for his ailing parents. Concerned for
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#17327733710801364-524: The Wampanoag in King Philip's War (1675–1678), which devastated the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Providence Plantation and Rhode Island. The Potatuck in northwest Connecticut had even less incentive than other Paugussett groups to become embroiled in the war because European presence in their territory was so limited—and would be for almost another half century. Europeans began to settle
1426-401: The " Three Sisters " crops of squash, beans, and maize (corn), though there is some evidence that they began to cultivate maize only in the decades just before English settlers came to New England. Men fished and hunted deer and small game, also growing tobacco for ritual use. The Potatuck used fire as a tool for clearing underbrush to facilitate both hunting and planting. Some may have moved to
1488-400: The 1800s, agriculture evolved into a business. Then, over the next 150 years, competition, rising costs and increasing regulation made it less sustainable, despite economies and innovation. In the early 1900s, local water mills, manufactories and other small businesses encountered similar challenges and gave way to industry in nearby Waterbury , Torrington and beyond. By the 1970s and 1980s,
1550-545: The 20th century. Furthermore, from the Great Depression and two World Wars, in which over 75 Morris residents served and two died, emerged a national economy, accelerated urbanization and a more mobile population. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, therefore, Morris and similar towns were in transition. The remaining farms were surrounded by large tracts of open land, field and forest where stone walls were reminders of former pastures. Small businesses had changed with
1612-505: The Colonial Army. Some went to the defense of Danbury after British forces attacked a supply depot in 1777, others as far as Canada and Virginia . Perhaps the most noteworthy was James Morris , who as a youth had been tutored by Bethlehem minister Joseph Bellamy , a significant figure in the religious Great Awakening . Morris considered a calling to the ministry after he graduated from Yale in 1775, but in 1776 he joined
1674-613: The Connecticut Colony's early days. South Farms residents had to petition the General Assembly in Hartford for permission to build a meeting house, which would make it possible to avoid the long trip to the center of Litchfield in the winter. After years of resistance, the Assembly finally acquiesced in 1767, when it authorized the organization of a separate Ecclesiastical Society of South Farms. Instead of ending
1736-616: The Dairy Herd Improvement Association. In 1936, the federal Agricultural Adjustment Act began providing assistance to farms. In 1940, Albert Humphrey produced the first test tube calf in Litchfield County. But even as they created economies and innovated, costs rose. New regulations like tuberculin testing and vaccination for cows proved burdensome. Machinery and equipment—large milk holding tanks, for instance—were increasingly expensive. By
1798-483: The Pitch Reservoir), it had two vertical shafts and a tunnel and was a financial bust. By the late 1800s, the town had three saw or grain mills and a wood-turning mill. Shops produced items from clothes frames to the scythe sharpeners known as "Emmons rifles" to innovative horse-drawn hay rakes , to wagons and sleighs. Some operated in manufactories, others in barns or other farm buildings. The town also had
1860-733: The Puffing Billy Railway Lakeside, Queensland , a locality in the North Burnett Region Canada [ edit ] Lakeside, Nova Scotia , just outside Halifax Lakeside, New Brunswick Lakeside, Kenora District, Ontario Lakeside, Oxford County, Ontario Lakeside (electoral district) , a political district Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 , Saskatchewan, a rural municipality Malaysia [ edit ] Lakeside Campus, Taylor's University , Subang Jaya New Zealand [ edit ] Lakeside, New Zealand ,
1922-603: The West Indies. Among them were the abolitionist John Brown ; William and Henry Ward Beecher , brothers of Harriet Beecher Stowe ; the native Hawaiian Henry Obookiah , who was a symbol of the American Foreign Mission movement, and Samuel Mills , its "father;" a governor and a lieutenant governor of Connecticut and four congressmen. Morris died in 1820, but the academy continued for another 68 years, having educated more than 1,200 young men and women by
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1984-421: The area was still largely rural, but residents' occupations had grown more diverse. Today, the farming tradition continues even as residents engage in a range of professions, businesses and arts locally and in the wider region. A number of second home owners come from the metro New York area. In addition to the two state parks and Bantam Lake, the 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) White Memorial Conservation Center offers
2046-800: The century before Europeans arrived in what became Connecticut, some of the Munsee people, a subgroup of the Lenape (who the English later called the Delaware), moved up the Atlantic coast. They appear to have coexisted and even intermingled with the Paugussett, whose pottery reflects the influence of their culture. The Paugussett did not side with more easterly tribes such as the Narragansett and
2108-493: The church, a focus of social life, were there. Also, odors from an East End tannery grew so noxious, people moved to be away from it. South Farms had a Society for Moral and Intellectual Improvement as well as a Lyceum for debating contemporary issues. It also had the first library in Litchfield, dating to 1785. By 1829, the Great Pond was called Bantam Lake , and local entrepreneurs advertised pleasure cruises and "a small establishment" where ladies and gentlemen could "spend
2170-524: The coast in a wide swath from Virginia to Canada. Those in the immediate area, the Potatuck , were a Paugussett subgroup. The Potatuck were woodland dwellers whose bark wigwam and longhouse villages typically housed anywhere from 50 to 200 individuals. Their social structure was relatively simple and egalitarian. Kin groups were matrilineal, and women held authority over land rights and transfer. Potatuck women gathered wild plants and fruits and raised
2232-412: The east side date to 1723, when local surveyors laid out the area's first east–west road. Also on the east end, and perhaps even earlier, a north–south road from Litchfield's Chestnut Hill ran down through the section that became known as The Pitch (so-called because the settlers "pitched", or drew lots, for land there). In 1724, the Connecticut Colony required settlers to build a fort, a log bulwark, on
2294-410: The education and moral welfare of the community's youth, he began sharing his library with, and teaching, both boys and girls. Fearing that the girls would grow to be too independent, some locals tried to censure him. His alleged transgressions included permitting students to dance at the close of lessons, treating female students too familiarly, and allowing them to pursue an academic course of study in
2356-581: The first place. The controversy led to a public hearing in which Morris prevailed. In 1803, he opened an academy in a new school building. The Morris Academy was one of the new nation's first coeducational secondary schools, "instructing youths…in the higher branches of literature and the sciences together with the Christian precepts of morality and virtue." During the years in which it existed, students came from 63 Connecticut towns, 15 states and 10 countries including Argentina, France, Germany, Spain and
2418-537: The flower of our town was laid in our yard, our hearts were nearly broken." In a town where the majority of voters were Democrats , a number questioned the war. Supporters of the Union cause argued vigorously, and sometimes heatedly, with these "white feather" peace advocates. A tradition of lively public exchange continued through the conflict and after; at its conclusion, the Lyceum debated whether representatives from
2480-475: The friction over local control, this act presaged ongoing arguments about the fair division of payments for the existing Litchfield church as well as about funding for the new meeting house in South Farms and for the four, then five, then six schools there. During the Revolutionary War , South Farms residents were taxed heavily to support the rebellion, and over 100 men served in either the militia or
2542-473: The late Confederacy should be seated in Congress. At the start, agriculture had made New England families self-sufficient. In the 1800s, it became a profit-making enterprise, especially as the railroad opened markets farther from home. Over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, farming also became a race to offset narrowing profit margins by expanding sales and creating economies. A major part of
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2604-615: The late 1950s, therefore, the size and productivity of Morris' working farms had grown, but their number had declined. To add to their problems, improving transportation systems and refrigeration had made product from the fertile Midwest —and beyond—ever more cost-competitive. By the 1970s and 1980s, therefore, agriculture in Morris was becoming what it was in the 2000s—a couple of larger operations, underwritten by income from other sources, and smaller ones that served specialty markets. It had become harder and harder, if it wasn't impossible, to make
2666-484: The local James Morris elementary school and regional Wamogo High School, a U.S. Department of Education school of excellence . Perhaps counter-intuitively, Morris also holds a Buddhist temple, as well as a Jewish cemetery from the early 1900s. The Morris/Litchfield region lay in the borderlands between Mahican territory to the north and west and Paugussett land to the south and southeast. Both peoples were part of an Algonquian language population that extended up
2728-410: The low-key rural character and natural beauty that attracted people in the first place? Connecticut authorized regional development planning in 1947, and in 1969 it required localities to create their own plans for conservation and development. Meanwhile, normal property turnover and individual initiative shaped development less intentionally. Several outcomes were noteworthy. Between 1950 and 2010,
2790-464: The metropolitan New York area. Also, high school graduates from Morris—as well as from other Litchfield County towns, generally—were more likely to leave after completing their formal education, both as a result of normal mobility and because of limited job prospects. Nonetheless, a number remained or came back to the region. In Morris, three quarters of residents were Connecticut natives. There were 29 towns in Litchfield County. Median income in Morris
2852-773: The name of at least two different record companies Lakeside Singers , a Chicago area ensemble See also [ edit ] Lake side road or esplanade Lakeside Academy (disambiguation) Lakeside Cemetery (disambiguation) Lakeside Country Club (disambiguation) Lakeside Elementary School (disambiguation) Lakeside Garden (disambiguation) Lakeside Golf Course (disambiguation) Lakeside High School (disambiguation) Lakeside Inn (disambiguation) Lakeside Park (disambiguation) Lakeside School (disambiguation) Lakeside School District (disambiguation) Lakeside station (disambiguation) Lakeside Village (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Lakeside Topics referred to by
2914-418: The northwest side of Morris in 1915. While some natives welcomed, or at least tolerated, the newcomers, others did not. The region was subject to periodic Mohawk incursions from the north and west. Some years later, Zebulon Gibbs recalled a 1722 raid in which a settler was killed and scalped. "I was the first who found him dead," Gibbs said. When colonists first lived in South Farms is unclear. Land deeds on
2976-634: The number of workers they needed; they employed new technologies—substituted mechanical reapers and mowers for scythe and cradle, for instance. With better machinery, they could retire their oxen and use horses for work—animals that then doubled as transportation. Later, in the 1900s, trucks and tractors replaced horses. Other innovations—electrical milking machines, refrigeration for milk, for instance—continued to improve efficiency and productivity. They also planted new crops—potatoes, sweet corn and cabbage—to appeal to new markets in Waterbury and elsewhere. For
3038-420: The other hand, its location posed special challenges. How would it stay economically viable when local farms and businesses faced low-cost competition from elsewhere? How would it hold onto a population with a healthy mix of ages and incomes when outside opportunities beckoned? To meet these two challenges, it would have to contend with a third: How would it support desirable development and simultaneously protect
3100-425: The population of Morris roughly tripled, from 770 to 2388. At the same time, it was aging. By 2017, the median age in the U.S. was 38, in Connecticut 41, and in Morris 47, which was actually lower than in many other area communities. These developments reflected the town's transition from a primarily agrarian to a semi-rural community with mixed employment. There were more second homes, often owned by weekenders from
3162-468: The problem was the so-called " tragedy of the commons :" what made sense for a single commercial farmer—producing more goods for sale—was not in either his or the common interest when everyone did the same. More production meant more supply for a limited market. More supply from local farms and still more from beyond the region depressed prices. Profitability suffered. Farmers in Morris adapted with Yankee ingenuity. Over time, they lowered overhead by reducing
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#17327733710803224-468: The problems caused by their distance from Litchfield, its inattention to their concerns, and the cost of maintaining roads and bridges that were far removed from them. The new town was named after its native son, the Revolutionary War soldier and pioneering educator. At its creation, Morris was a farming community of 10,400 acres (4,200 ha) and about 700 souls. "Almost every homestead was
3286-467: The region in 1715 after John Marsh came from Hartford to what was known as the Greenwoods, the thickly forested part of the colony that corresponded roughly to today's Litchfield County. Having explored and found friendly inhabitants, Marsh and a partner, John Buell of Lebanon, Connecticut , petitioned the General Assembly for the right to establish a town at "a place called Bantam"—the name possibly
3348-407: The rest of creation, people were taught to respect and seek harmony in their physical and social environments and between earthly and spiritual worlds. The Potatuck and the Paugussett, more generally, were part of a northeastern trade network whose water routes very probably extended to the midwest and possibly as far as the mid-south. Relations with neighboring groups were by and large harmonious. In
3410-472: The roads to move horses, cattle and mules from as far as Vermont. Concord stages brought travelers to and through the area, where they stopped and stayed at local taverns. Ultimately, however, the more westerly crossroads (leading to East Morris, Litchfield, Bethlehem, Washington and New Milford ) became South Farms' hub. It was more geographically central. A public school; the Morris Academy; and
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3534-477: The settlers through the 1700s and on into the 1900s. Typically, they adopted non-native customs and religion, though some also conserved elements of traditional culture such as the craft of basketweaving. Between 1747 and 1859, residents of South Farms were involved in sporadic arguments with the town of Litchfield, the colony, and after independence, the state, over control of their religious and civic activities. Church and state were inextricably interconnected in
3596-521: The shore of Long Island Sound to fish and gather shellfish during the summer. Like other first peoples in the northeast, the Potatuck believed in a Creator. His lodge, which lay to the west, was where worthy men and women went after they died. Individuals had spiritual guardians. These could be inanimate objects or ghosts but most often were animals. Festivals and other rituals taught that humans are part of nature — neighbors with plants and animals, which also possess spirits. Given their interdependence with
3658-491: The time it closed. By 1810, when families were still largely self-sufficient, South Farms farmers cultivated wheat, rye, corn and oats. Women spun flax for linen. Sheep and cattle produced wool and milk, respectively, while oxen provided power for field labor. Water mills turned out grist and lumber, as well as seed for products such as linseed oil . Scattered throughout the area were several small stores, smithies, cider mills and other small businesses. Although its location
3720-451: The times—the town now had gas stations instead of a wagon manufactory, for instance—but these operations, too, had to reckon with outside competition, and some would close. A growing number of residents commuted to nearby towns and cities for work. Twenty years later, some farmland had been broken up and developed; for the most part, however, housing was still a mix of Early American structures and newer ones strung loosely along or back from
3782-545: Was eighth highest. Birthrate and family size were the state average. By the early 2000s, there were at least three different models of agriculture in Morris: Although the locally-grown movement and specialty markets ( hops , e.g.) had created new opportunities, farmers were still squeezed by the availability of cheap goods from outside the area; by the dis-economy of running small or mid-sized operations as equipment, technology, insurance and other costs rose; and by
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#17327733710803844-554: Was rural, South Farms in the early 1800s had connections to the outside world not only because of the academy's relatively diverse student body but also because it was part of an active transportation network. At the time, the area had two centers. One at the east end (now East Morris) was at a four corners on the Straitsville toll road (today Straits Turnpike/Route 63), which connected farther north to Litchfield, Albany and Vermont and which ran south to New Haven . Drovers used
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