Helen Binney Kitchel

Helen Binney Kitchel (September 9, 1890 - February 11, 1990) was an American politician. She is best known for her fight against billboards.^[1] She was elected in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1931 to 1939. She was the first woman in Connecticut to have a bill named after her.

Kitchel was born on September 9, 1890, in Old Greenwich to parents Edwin Binney and Alice Stead Binney.^[2] She attended the Catherine Aiken School in Stamford. She married Allan Farrand Kitchel 1909.^[3]

Helen Binney Kitchel Natural Park was named after her,^{[citation needed]} as is a holly grove at Greenwich Point beach.^[4] In 1961 Kitchel gave the state of Connecticut a tract of land that forms what is now called Algonquin State Forest.^[5]