Noah Webster House, West Hartford, Connecticut: At 227 South Main Street is the birthplace of American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1853). The two and…
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Prisoners of the American Revolution, Milford, Connecticut: On New Years Day 1777, a British prison ship released 200 war prisoners ill with smallpox...
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Elias Austin House, Durham, Connecticut: In 1743, Elias Austin* bought land from Robert Fairchild for 153 pounds and built a Colonial style house...
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East Haddam, Connecticut: Incorporated 1734 This land was part of an original purchase from the Indians in 1662 for 30 coats –...
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Yantic Falls, Norwich, Connecticut: "Yantic Falls, known as Indian Leap, was a favorite encampment of the Mohegan Indians. In 1643, Uncas, Sachem of...
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Westport, Connecticut: “For nearly two hundred years after the first white settlement here in 1648, the area east of the Saugatuck River belonged…
Westbrook, Connecticut: "This community was settled in 1648 as Pochong, an Indian word meaning at the confluence of two rivers, the Pochoug and...
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North Haven, Connecticut: “A part of Indian land bought in 1638 for New Haven, North Haven was incorporated in 1786. The center area was…
Bridgeport, Connecticut: “The Park City" "The area that is now Bridgeport was settled in the mid-17th century by farmers from the older towns...
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Old Saybrook, Connecticut: “SAY – BROOKE Founded November 1635. First English settlement on south shore of New England. Named for Viscount Say and…
Old Lyme, Connecticut: “As early as the 1640’s settlers from Saybrook cleared and planted land on the east side of [the] Connecticut River…
Ansonia, Connecticut: “Here the first settlers came in 1654 and established a settlement called Uptown Derby. It is now part of the City…
Newington, Connecticut: “1636 – Newington valley used by Wethersfield settlers as a source for pipe staves, building materials and pasture lands. Pipestave Swamp,…
New Hartford, Connecticut: "In 1732 the Connecticut General Assembly gave Hartford and Windsor permission to establish seven towns in the colony's Western Lands....
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Beacon Falls, Connecticut: “The lands of Beacon Falls first appear in history when Milford was settled in 1639. Northern boundary of Milford was…
Hamden, Connecticut: “Incorporated in 1786, this town was originally part of New Haven and was named for John Hampden, noted English statesman. In…
Oxford, Connecticut: “Originally part of Derby, Oxford was settled by people pushing inland from Derby, Stratford, and New Haven. Land was acquired in…
Shelton, Connecticut: "1639 - Stratford area settled, with present-day Shelton as the northern part. 1717 - Northern settlers established Ripton parish. 1789 -...
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Danbury, Connecticut: “Eight families came from Norwalk in 1685 to settle this area which the Indians called Pahquioque. They built their first homes…
East Haven, Connecticut: “This area, purchased by the Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton in 1638, was later known as East Farms. It…
Branford, Connecticut: "In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded 'eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in...
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Norfolk, Connecticut: "In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius...
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Sprague, Connecticut: “This area on the Shetucket River was part of the land deeded in 1659 by Uncas, the Mohegan Indian sachem, to…
Woodbridge, Connecticut: "The town consists of portions of the colonial jurisdictions of New Haven and Milford. Founded in 1738 as the Parish of...
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West Haven, Connecticut: “West Farms (West Haven) recorded its first household in 1648. Part of the original New Haven Colony, West Farms became…
Derby, Connecticut: “In 1642 John Wakeman established the first trading post in the Naugatuck Valley at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housatonic…
Bethany, Connecticut: “In 1738 Amity Parish in New Haven and Milford, including most of present-day Woodbridge and Bethany, was incorporated by the General…
Wallingford, Connecticut: “This territory was purchased by the New Haven Colony in 1638 from Montowese, son of an Indian sachem. It was named…
Milford, Connecticut: “This area was settled in 1639 as an independent colony by a congregation of English Puritans led by their minister, the…
New Haven, Connecticut: “Settlement of Quinnipiac, afterward named New Haven, began on April 25, 1638 with the arrival of a large group from…
