Virtual Trivia

Question 10: Remembering Wooster’s Sacrifice

April 10, 2020

Patriot General David Wooster was mortally wounded early in the battle. Name at least four different places in the Ridgefield-Danbury area that bear the Wooster name.

  • Wooster Street
  • Wooster Cemetery
  • Wooster School—home of the appropriately named Generals
  • Wooster Heights
  • Wooster Hollow
  • Wooster Mountain
  • Wooster Manor

Also named for him are: David Wooster Middle School in Stratford, Connecticut; a street in SoHo, New York City; and the city of Wooster, Ohio.

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