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Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury...

We would like some help with a question that came up at the DRM. We have on display a Sales and Traffic Map (circa 1920) that shows a station named Leonard located between South Kent and Kent. We looked in our material and books and could not find any additional information on it. Can anyone help with some historical data? Thanks.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury...

From the 1950 USGS Kent Quadrangle map there is a location identified as Camp Leonard and also Leonard Pond located just to the north of Hatch Pond, which is located immediately north of Woodrow (South Kent). Leonard, Ct. may have been identified as a shipping location for lumber in the tariff. It did not necessarily have to be likewise identified as such in the Time Table for operational purposes.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

I have a passenger tariff from 1889 and timetables both employee and public from the 1920's and neither show any reference to the location named, Leonards.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

I looked up the UCONN website and they have 3 pictures of Leonard's Bridge station. It doesn't say where, so I don't know if it is the same one.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

The location in more recent times has been "Camp Leonard Leonore." It was just that, a camp. A kids' summer camp. In very recent times, after the kids' camp folded, it was reborn as an adult camp of some kind --- adult singles, I think. I can't for the life of me recall what the current name of it is.

(Incidentally, the location is about a mile or so north of the spot where the infamous Hatch Pond Camp Train Wreck occurred in August 1941. You may be tempted to think that the train involved in that wreck had come from Camp Leonard Leonore, but this not the case. The train that was wrecked had originated at Lenox, MA, and the campers were from Camp Mahkeenac, which I believe is stil in business and is approximately across the road from Tanglewood)

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

Thanks very much to all who answered. The question had our resident experts at the Museum stumped.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

When working Second Trick at the Kent Station in the late 40's and early 50's, I recall handling express shipments to and from Camps Leonard and Leonore. Also handled was luggage (usually trunks) when the kids arrived in early Summer and left in late August. Camp Leonard was for boys and Camp Leonore was for girls. I believe that it was some time in the mid-50's that the two camps were combined and turned in to an adult singles (read "makeout") resort. Just like Tom C., I too seem to have forgotten the name of this place. One of their drivers with a van used to stop by just about every day waiting for new arrivals from New York coming in on train #140 and eventually sending them back to the city a week or so later on train #143.

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....

Stan, If Pete MacLaughlan hadn't gone to California to run for governer, he could of told you that.!

RE: Leonard, CT on the line to Pittsfield from Danbury....