Editing New Canaan, Connecticut (section)

=== Institutions and organizations ===

[[File:Grace Farms Interior View from Exterior.JPG|thumb|[[Grace Farms]], a nondenominational church in New Canaan, CT.]]
* New Canaan Museum & Historical Society – operates seven museums, preserves five historic buildings, collects and preserves material thought to be of local historical value, and supports education programs such as school tours, special exhibits, seminars and publications on New Canaan history. The society was founded in 1889 and is housed in New Canaan's first town hall.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://nchistory.org/|access-date=October 21, 2021|website=New Canaan Museum & Historical Society|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Harmony Lodge No. 67 Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons – the oldest voluntary society in the Town of New Canaan.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Feinstein|first1=Estelle|title=Stamford From Puritan to Patriot: The Shaping of a Connecticut Community, 1641-1774|date=1976|publisher=Stamford Bicentennial Corp.|location=Stamford|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Mason|first1=Post|url=https://www.masonpost.com/ct/harmony67/|title=Harmony Lodge #67 |access-date=November 3, 2017}}</ref> It was chartered by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Connecticut and, with its establishment in 1763, became the first masonic lodge in lower Fairfield County. The only masonic lodges in the area at that time were Union Lodge No. 5 of Stamford and St. John's No. 6 in Norwalk.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hubbard|first1=Frederick A.|title=Masonry In Greenwich|date=1922|location=Greenwich, Connecticut|isbn=978-1258186159}}</ref> This meant that the brothers of Canaan Parish, prior to 1825, had to meet either at Union No. 5, which often physically met at Greenwich, Stamford, and sometimes Bedford, NY or at St. John's No. 6 in Norwalk. Once Canaan Parish was incorporated into a separate town, Brothers Samuel Carter, Jr., John Seely, Eliphalet Weed and several other members, requested the recommendation of St. John's Lodge No. 6 in Norwalk to the Grand Lodge for a charter to establish a new lodge in the Town of New Canaan which was granted on May 30, 1825.<ref name=king1931>{{cite book|last1=King|first1=Mary Louise|title=Portrait of New Canaan|date=1931|publisher=John Spencer, Inc.|location=Chester, PA|isbn=0-939958-00-7|pages=144, 147, 275|edition=1st}}</ref> In 1954, the Lodge, in a three-way swap, bought the old Methodist Church building on Main Street, and Harmony Lodge No. 67 has been at this site ever since.<ref name=king1931 />
* [[New Canaan Society]] (NCS) - a nationwide movement of over 24,000 men who gather to encourage each other in friendship and faith, aiming to support one another in becoming better husbands, fathers, and leaders in their communities and workplaces.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What Is NCS |url=https://newcanaansociety.org/about/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Silvermine Arts Center
* New Canaan Red Cross
* New Canaan Land Trust
* New Canaan Library
* [[Grace Farms]]