Tom's Ornamental Iron Works is located at 626 Federal Road in Brookfield, Connecticut located immediately off Exit 12 off Super 7. The business is run by Thom and Brian La Barbera together. Along the Still River, mills were in operation as early as 1732 in an area that became known as the Iron Works District. 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 grist mill still stands, as the Brookfield Craft Center. The Iron Works Aqueduct Company, formed in 1837 to supply water from mountain springs to the Iron Works District, still supplies water as the Brookfield Water Company. 98% of the iron we use is NOT MADE IN CHINA, or PAKISTAN, but from North America.