Cooper Pond Brook begins at a pond just south of Ivy Hill Road, across the road from Ridgefield's Great Swamp. As it makes its way southeast towards Branchville, it passes through two significant bodies of water: Johns Pond, created around 1751 to supply power to John Hoyt's sawmill, and Candees Pond, formed after 1867, probably for decorative purposes. Both of these ponds were named for their 20th-century owners: Norman John and Howard Candees.

An unnamed brook flows north to Candees Pond from the Weir Farm National Historic Site, the spot where J. Alden Weir and many of his friends and colleagues produced some of their fine impressionist paintings about a century ago.



Hagemeyers Pond, the source of Cooper Pond Brook.
At the corner of Ivy Hill and Florida Hill Roads.




Johns Pond, on the north side of Branchville Road.




Candees Pond, downstream from Johns Pond.




Office of the Weir Farm National Historic Site.
It is on an unnamed tributary that flows north
and meets Cooper Pond Brook at Candees Pond.




J. Alden Weir's house and artist's studio.



J. Alden Weir's pond, east of Nod Hill Road.

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