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200 Million B.C.
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Dinosaurs roam the earth
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1715
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Stamford residents purchase hayfields on Flat Ridge (now Waveny)
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1785
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Elisha Leeds owns a farm that is the western part of Waveny
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1801
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New Canaan incorporates
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1895
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Thomas W. Hall begins purchasing 175 acres he calls Prospect Farm
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1904
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Lewis H. Lapham buys and expands Prospect Farm and names it Waveny
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1913
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Waveny Castle is built
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1969
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Ruth Lapham Lloyd donates part of Waveny for a new high school, and sells the rest of Waveny, nearly 300 acres including the "Castle," to New Canaan at terms extremely favorable to the Town
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1971
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High School opens (designed to accommodate 1,900 students)
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1974
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New Canaan Board of Selectmen sign an agreement that the wooded buffer between the high school and South Avenue will be set aside for "nature study and general conservation only."
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1975
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Waveny Care Center opens
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1977
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Paddle Tennis Courts built and opened
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1997
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Dunning Field Stadium built
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1997
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South School expanded, new access road cut in to Farm Road
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2001
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Waveny Care Center expanded
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2001
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Waveny Pool construction takes out 5 acres of trees
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2002
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Town Council votes to clear-cut over 17,000 square feet of wooded buffer for office building
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200?
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Athletic Field House now under discussion
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200?
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Three-to-five acre assisted living facility now under discussion
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Apparently, the Town Council feels that the 1974 agreement, signed by the New Canaan Board of Selectmen, is not legally (or even ethically) binding.
