Halcyon seems to be the only one who calls this area ‘Crow Hill’. He may have called it that in reference to an area of Brooklyn now known as Crown Heights. That area of Brooklyn had a high black population and the area may have been named after a derogatory term for black people. Incidentally, south of the Homestead was Ned’s Mountain, where a black family lived in the 1860s

Purchased 23 April 1863 from William Lyons, alongside Sherwood Farm, for a total of $7000.

Foreclosed on 26 March 1878 by Ebenezer J Hutchings.

Described as 26½ acres “...bounded as follows North and East by land formerly owned by Alonzo Mead South by Smith Keelers land and West by Highway”

Sources

• Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Ridgefield Land Records. Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut: Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, v23 pg 134, v24 pg 369, v26 pg 9
• Silvio A. Bedini. Ridgefield in review. Ridgefield, Conn.: Ridgefield 250th Anniversary Committee, 1958 p. 350. url: http://archive.org/details/ridgefieldinrevi00bedi (visited on 04/13/2023)
• Jack Sanders. “Uncle Ned’s Mountain: An Underground Railroad Station and Home of Civil War Soldiers from Near and Far,” 2020. url: https://ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org/documents/UNCLE%20NED’S%20MOUNTAIN%20(illustrated).pdf (visited on 05/31/2023).