Brookfield is a common place name in English-speaking countries.

Incorporated in 1778, the town's name was changed to Brookfield in honor of Brooks, who was still the minister.

When this action dried out Portage Creek on 14 May 1871, the settlement, which had only the week before been designated as Onekama with a Post Office under that name, moved to the previously submerged land at the northwestern shore of the lake near an earlier settlement called " Brookfield ".

In 1788 a legislature of the state of Vermont stated that " the town of Randolph, Braintree, Brookfield, Roxbury, Williamstown, Northfield, Wildersburgh, Berlin and Montpelier [...] hereby are formed into one entire probate district, by the name of the district of Randolph.

Brookfield Township is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Michigan:

East Brookfield is the name of the following places in the United States:

North Brookfield is the name of some places in the United States:

In 2005, the company changed its name to Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ).

The group's name is derived from the Long View Recording Studio complex in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, where they recorded their first album.

The Canadian company, which had in the meantime diversified to other areas, still exists under the name Brookfield Asset Management.

Earnest P. “ Larry ” Pletch shot Carl Bivens, 39, a flight instructor who was offering Pletch lessons in a yellow Taylor Cub monoplane with tandem controls in the air after taking off in Brookfield, Missouri.

The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.

Professor John Brookfield and Professor David Papineau argue since there was a " first " chicken, it must have come from an egg which pre-dated that chicken.

* Brookfield Farm is a farm that was run by Dan Archer, and then by his son Phil Archer for many years.

The building, now part of Brookfield Place, was designed by Frank Darling and S. George Curry.

eventually when the town was settledit was established as the Parish of Newbury, which incorporated parts of neighboring Newtown and Danbury, the town of Brookfield was established in 1788.

Brookfield was a thriving town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation.

The. 475 Wildey Magnum gun, later made famous in the 1985 Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 3, was developed by Wildey J. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s ( the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut ).

The final boundary adjustment to Fairfield County occurred in 1788 when the town of Brookfield was incorporated from parts of Newtown, Danbury, and New Milford, with Fairfield County gaining territory from Litchfield County.

Brookfield, another town, was a mile and a half southwest of Wink.

The railroad's closest depot was in Brookfield, Ga., four miles away.

It was incorporated as a separate town in 1905, making it the third youngest in the state, behind Millville ( 1916 ) and East Brookfield ( 1920 ).

Brookfield was first settled in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1718.

In March 1778, Joshua Spooner, a wealthy farmer in Brookfield, was beaten to death and his body stuffed down a well.

It seems his party would have spent the night in Brookfield except that the innkeeper, Mrs. Bannister, was in bed with a terrible headache.

The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.

The village was incorporated in 1891 and included the earlier settlement known as Brookfield, creating a long narrow village about 1. 5 miles long with the business section on the flat, former lake bottom and residences on the higher land.

* Doris Akers, gospel singer and composer, was born in Brookfield and resided there until age five.

* Jeff Roe, Republican political consultant, was born in Brookfield and lived there until joining the Army at age sixteen.

* The office complex in downtown Toronto, Canada formerly known as BCE Place, now Brookfield Place

Brookfield is best known for its floating bridge which spans Sunset Lake buoyed by pontoons.

Originally a part of Quaboag Plantation, the town now known as Warren was part of Brookfield for 68 years until it was renamed Western.

Brookfield is known for their athletics.

The Bushwick Glass Company, later to be known as Brookfield Glass Company established itself in 1869, when a local brewer sold it to James Brookfield.

At a local government level, Churchdown is represented as two wards-Churchdown Brookfield ( the southern half of Churchdown also known locally as Churchdown Village ) and Churchdown St John's ( the northern half near St John's church ).

The Gringai are a known clan of the Wonnarua people, whose traditional lands are the Allyn River valley, and include what is now known as Dungog, Paterson, Gresford, Brookfield, Tocal, to the headwaters of the Williams and Chichester rivers.

Brookfield Zoo, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches, instead of cages, to separate animals from visitors and from other animals.

The Brookfield Zoo is also known for its majestic fountain named after the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

Brookfield East once had a mulit-use facility known as the " Cafetorium ," with a stage built into the north end of the cafeteria.

Herzing University campuses are located in Akron, Ohio ( known as the Akron Institute of Herzing University ); Atlanta, Georgia ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Brookfield, Wisconsin ; Kenosha, Wisconsin ; Madison, Wisconsin ; Minneapolis, Minnesota ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Orlando, Florida ; Omaha, Nebraska ( known as the Omaha School of Massage and Healthcare of Herzing University ) and Toledo, Ohio.

The middle rail line was removed in the 1990s and the two remaining tracks now serve as the CPR Hamilton Subdivision and the CPR Brookfield Siding. Townline Tunnel is known locally as the " Stinky Tunnel " due to the strong smell of rotten eggs as one passes through it.

Over time, the village expanded from its original boundaries ( signified by the Bishop's stone at Caseley as the entrance, and the Wrey brook in the valley ), to encompass the area beyond the Wrey brook ( known as Wreyland ) which was previously a separate village-although its residents attended Lustleigh's parish church-and out to Brookfield ( in 1957 ).