Town of Enfield Bicentennial Celebration
200 Years
March 16, 1821 – March 16, 2021

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We will have monthly planning meetings during 2020 on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, Enfield Historians Office, Enfield Community Building, 182 Enfield Main Road. If you would like to join this committee, please e-mail Ann at: daylilyann10@yahoo.com to be put on the notification
list.

Notifications, meeting minutes, and historical articles on this Bicentennial event can be found on: Enfield Community Council website – http://www.enfieldcommunitycouncil.org , Enfield Community Council on Facebook , and the Town of Enfield website at www.townofenfield.org

The 200th Bicentennial of the Town of Enfield will be celebrated in 2021. To prepare for this event we will be planning this event during 2020. Ann Rider and Sue Thompson, Town Historian, will be co-chairpersons of the events. We will not have just one celebration event but many smaller events and information presentations. Of course, our signature yearly events,
sponsored by the Enfield Community Council, the spring County Faire and the fall Harvest Festival, will have the Anniversary as it’s theme.

To make all this happen, it will take many community people working together to make this a success. The Elementary School faculty and the Grange have already been contacted and
have expressed willingness to contribute and have some ideas to pursue.

Some ideas already put forth: Replicating the day that Enfield became a separate Town in March of 1821; why do we have a Connecticut Hill in Enfield?; facts about the 5 biggest
landowners in the Town in 1821; where did the children go to school in the old days?; what did people eat and where did they get their food in the old days?

We will also produce a quilt. Will we have a popular pattern from 1821 or something modern? Some suggested to me that families in Enfield donate the fabric that they have on hand to make this quilt and of course, it will have to be hand quilted, so that will
take many hands and a place to put it up on a frame for a period of time.

We do have a lot of reference material that has already been done, thanks to our long time Historian, Sue Thompson (historian@townofenfield.org) and people she has worked with
during the last 30 years. We already have a history in one book and we need to look at the other materials we already have as a starting point.