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Brookfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, situated within the southern foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The population was 17,528 at the 2020 census. The town is located 55 miles (89 km) northeast of New York City, making it portion of the New York metropolitan area. In July 2013, Money magazine ranked Brookfield the 26th-best place to breathing in the United States, and the best place to flesh and blood in Connecticut.

Colonists established in what is now known as Brookfield in 1710, led by John Muirwood and further colonial founders including Hawley, Peck and Merwin. They bartered for the house from the Wyantenuck and the Potatuck Nations who were ruled below the Sachems Waramaug and Pocono. Sachem Pocono’s village was in an vast palisade along the Still River. Colonists first time-honored the area as the Parish of Newbury, incorporating parts of next to Newtown and Danbury. The parish complex was renamed and incorporated as the town of Brookfield in 1788, named for Rev. Thomas Brooks, the first minister of the parish’s Congregational church.

Early people who lived in Brookfield were subsistence farmers, gatherers, and hunters. The main food sources were corn, beans, squash and wild foods found in the rocky, heavily forested foothills of the Berkshire Mountains of Brookfield and New Milford. Such wild foods that were harvested were white oak acorns, American chestnuts, shag bark hickory nuts, may apples, beach nuts and Solomon’s seal. The hunted animals that were taken from the forest and rivers were deer, passenger pigeon, turkey, bass, trout, crawfish, squirrel, rabbit and others. In the 18th century the community was called “Newbury”, a make known that came from the three towns from which its home was taken—New Milford, Newtown, and Danbury.