Litchfield, CT - Topsmead is the former summer estate of Miss Edith Morton Chase, daughter of Henry Sabin Chase. Henry Chase was the first President of Chase Brass and Copper Company in Waterbury when Waterbury was the Brass Capital of the World. In 1917 Miss Chase received 16 acres on Jefferson Hill in Litchfield. She built a rustic cabin on the land and in 1923 she decided to replace it with an English Style Tudor house. The house was completed in 1925.

Miss Chase built up her financial inheritance and in 1927 bought the Buell Farm which was renamed "Topsmead" to reflect its location, "On top of the meadow".

Upon her death in 1972 she left her beloved estate to the people of Connecticut.

Info from: Topsmead State Forest Posting.