Major Ebenezer Lockwood
Major Ebenezer Lockwood commanded the local militia during the American Revolution and allowed his home to be used as headquarters for Col. Sheldon's cavalry regiment. In addition to serving as headquarters for Col. Sheldon, Major Lockwood's house had also been converted into a temporary hospital for the wounded of both sides. Before destroying the house, the British did a brief search and came away with military documents and the battle standard of Sheldon's regiment, taken as a trophy. The house was then burned to the ground. Ebenezer moved his family to Ridgefield where is son Horatio was born later that same year in 1779. At the close of the war they returned to Pound Ridge where Ebenezer 'converted a barn into a dwelling'. Ebenezer's last child, Lewis was born there in 1783 (that is the site of the Community Church parsonage). The exact date of construction for Ebenezer's new home on his old property is not known. When Horatio inherited and moved into this home though, it is thought that he built additions on to it in 1808, the year he married Berthia Lockwood, daughter of his cousin Solomon Lockwood. The orginal section of the is thought to be the center-chimney house which is now the south wing of this Landmark home.