Lakeville (Salisbury, Connecticut)

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.

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.

Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the Hotchkiss gun was born there. The Hotchkiss School, founded by his widow, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, is located in Lakeville. It was originally a boys' boarding school but later became coeducational.

Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska was a resident of Lakeville from 1949 until her death in 1959.

In the early 1950's the well-known Belgian-French writer Georges Simenon resided for several years in Shadow Rock Farm, a large house in Lakeville.

The town forms the background for Simenon's novel "La Mort de Belle" ("The Death of Belle"), depicting its small town quiet life being shattered by the (fictional) murder of a young girl. It was later adapted to film, released as "Passion of Slow Fire", or "The End of Belle" (see [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=A105667] )

ee also

*Hotchkiss School
*Lime Rock Park
*Indian Mountain School