page_title: New Canaan, Connecticut
section_title: Institutions and organizations
hierarchical_section_title: New Canaan, Connecticut / Institutions and organizations
caption_attribution_description: English: Grace Farms Interior View from Exterior
context_page_description: New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 19,738 according to the 2010 census.
  About an hour's train ride from Manhattan, the town is considered part of Connecticut's Gold Coast. The town is bounded on the south by Darien, on west by Stamford, on the east by Wilton, on the southeast by Norwalk, and on the north by Lewisboro and Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York.
  New Canaan is known for its wide range of architecture and vast public parks such as Waveny Park, and a signature town center with classic boutiques. Residents carol on God’s Acre every Christmas Eve, a town tradition since 1916. It is also known for its public school system, which in 2018 was ranked as the top public school system in Connecticut, and in 2008 the third-best in the country.
context_section_description: New Canaan Historical Society - operates seven museums, preserves five historic buildings, collects and preserves material thought to be of local historical value, and supports education programs such as school tours, special exhibits, seminars and publications on New Canaan history. The society was founded in 1889 and is housed in New Canaan's first town hall.
  Harmony Lodge No. 67 Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons - the oldest voluntary society in the Town of New Canaan. It was chartered by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Connecticut and was the first masonic lodge in lower Fairfield County since 1763. The only masonic lodges in the area at that time was Union Lodge No. 5 of Stamford and St. John's No. 6 in Norwalk. This meant that the brothers of Canaan Parish, prior to 1825, had to meet either at Union No. 5 which often physically met at Greenwich, Stamford and sometimes Bedford, NY and St. John's No. 6 in Norwalk. Once Canaan Parish was incorporated into a separate town, Brothers Samuel Carter, Jr., John Seely, Eliphalet Weed and several other members, requested the recommendation of St. John's Lodge No. 6 in Norwalk to the Grand Lodge for a charter to establish a new lodge in the Town of New Canaan which was granted on May 30, 1825. Also during that year, New Canaan's first town hall building was nearly complete and the town offered Harmony Lodge No. 67 the upstairs area as a meeting hall for their lodge for the total annual cost of $20. On January 2, 1917 Francis E. Green, who had bought the old Baptist Church on Main Street, which still stands today next to the present fire house, sold this building to the Fellowcraft Club of New Canaan, Inc. making this Harmony Lodge's first permanent home. In 1954 the lodge in a three-way swap bought the old Methodist Church building on Main Street, and Harmony Lodge No. 67 has been at this present sight ever since.
  Silvermine Arts Center
  New Canaan Red Cross
  New Canaan Land Trust
  New Canaan Library
  Grace Farms
caption: Grace Farms, a nondenominational church in New Canaan, CT.
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