Lakeville, Connecticut

Lakeville is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, bordering Dutchess County, New York. It has its own zip code (06039), post Office, and street addresses. While technically a part of Salisbury, Connecticut, for the purpose of navigation and mail, Lakeville is not Salisbury, which has zip code 06068. The Hotchkiss and Indian Mountain Schools are located in Lakeville.

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 (one of which was established in the 1760s by future Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen). Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the Hotchkiss gun was born in nearby Watertown.

A boarding school in his name, the Hotchkiss School, was founded by his widow Maria Bissell Hotchkiss in Lakeville in 1891. It later became coeducational. Lakeville is also the home of Indian Mountain School which is a boarding school for students Pre-K through 9th. It was founded in 1922.

It was also the original home to what would eventually relocate and become the Mansfield Training School, an institution for profoundly retarded residents of Connecticut.

In the early 1950s, 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.

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