Lakeville (Salisbury, Connecticut)
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Lakeville, Connecticut is a village in Salisbury in Litchfield County, Connecticut, on Lake Wononskopomuc. The town contains the Hotchkiss School, founded in 1892 and Lime Rock Park, a road course auto racing facility.
Ethan Allen made munitions in Lakeville during the American Revolution. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the Hotchkiss gun was born there; Hotchkiss School was founded by his widow, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss. 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.
Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska was a resident from 1949 until her death in 1959.
[edit] See also
- Hotchkiss School
- Lime Rock Race track
- Indian Mountain School
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