Open house celebrating one of the district school’s famous alumni, Cyrus B. Northrop, who graduated from and then taught at Yale University and went on to head the University of Minnesota. During his 27-year tenure, which began in 1884, the school grew from 300 students to more than 5000. The Peter Parley/West Lane District Schoolhouse at the intersection of West Lane and South Salem Road in Ridgefield is maintained by the Ridgefield Historical Society as a small museum of early education. It is open on the last Sunday of the month from May through October.