At it’s highest point, a water tower from the First Taxing District sits overlooking the sprawling Norwalk Hospital complex. In another era Spring Hill would have remained a hilly enclave with eastern views of the Norwalk River valley. But in the 1960s, it was cut off from downtown Norwalk by the creation of Route 7, a plan to make a highway leading north towards the farmlands of Litchfield County and beyond. Norwalk Hospital slowly absorbed most of the land, and now the dense neighborhood with steep hillside roads is the only neighborhood in Norwalk without a park.
Extending from Riverside Cemetery all the way to North Taylor Drive and anchored by Connecticut Ave and Route 7, this neighborhood once offered the best view of the Long Island Sound. Today you can get the best view of the Norwalk fireworks from the parking lot of Bob’s Furniture Store. Norwalk’s largest employer is Norwalk Hospital (soon to be owned by Northwell Health), so it’s no surprise that they own the most land in the neighborhood. It wasn’t always so. From its roots as a single building, locally owned and operated, the Norwalk Hospital has sprawled into the Spring Hill neighborhood creating in its wake opportunities for developers to create multi-family housing and condos.
The First Taxing District owns the water tower and provides the water to the neighborhood. And like its namesake there are springs throughout the neighborhood.
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Riverside Park was located along the river, approximately from where Hill Street meets Riverside Avenue north to the Route 123 Bridge. There was a pond with a small island, a popular location for ice-skating in winter and fishing the rest of the year.
