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• 1786 - (Granby, CT) - The town was settled in 1660 and incorporated in 1786 from a section of Simsbury.
  
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• 1819 - Granby
  Granby is an extensive irregular township, situated in the northern section of the county, bordering upon Massachusetts, seventeen miles from Hartford; bounded on the north by Massachusetts' line, on the east by Suffield and Windsor, on the south by Simsbury and Canton, and on the west by...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1839 - Granby
  Granby, Connecticut
  Hartford county. This town was incorporated in 1786 and was that part of Simsbury which contains the famous Simsbury mines; the old state prison of Connecticut. The cavern, once occupied as a prison, is now worked, as formerly, as a copper mine. This odious place, unfit for the ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Granby
  Granby, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, 15 miles N. N.W. from Hartford. This township contains the celebrated Simsbury mines, formerly used as a prison. Population, 2498.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1886 - Granby
  BY William Scoville Case
  
  Although Granby has existed as an independent township only since 1786, the history proper of the tract enclosed in its present limits antedates that period by considerably more than a century. A hasty r‚sum‚ of the history prior to the final separation from Simsbury is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Granby
  Gran’by, a post-village of Hartford co., Conn., in Granby township, on the New Haven & Northampton Rail road, 47 miles N. of New Haven, and about 16 miles N.N.W. of Hartford. It has 4 churches, an academy, and a manufactory of ivory, bone, &c. Pop. of township (1890) 1251.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
  
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  Old Craig Mill and Pond, No. Granby, Conn.
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  General Store, Town Clerks Office, and Post Office, Granby, Ct.
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• 1916
  Granby, a post-village of Hartford co., Conn., in Granby township (town), on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 47 miles N. of New Haven. Pop. of the town in 1900, 1299 ; of the village, 175.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
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  Mill Property of Robert Forsythe, Granby, Conn.
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  Main Street, Granby, Conn.
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