History of Middlebury, Connecticut, USA

Middlebury is a small township, situated in the northwestern extremity of the county, being 22 miles from New-Haven, and 36 from Hartford; bounded on the north by Woodbury and Watertown, it Litchfield county, on the east by Waterbury, on the south by Oxford, and on the west by Woodbury; having an average length from north to south of 5 miles, and an average breadth of nearly 4 miles, containing about 19 square miles, or about 13,000 acres.

The township is watered by Hop river, a branch of the Naugatuck, & numerous small streams. In the southeast section of the town there is a small pond or lake, called Quasepaug, which discharges its waters into the Ousatonick...

A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Written with Care and Impartiality, from Original and Authentic Materials : Consisting of Two Parts ... : with an Accurate and Improved Map of Each State
Authors John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles
Publisher W.S. Marsh, 1819

MIDDLEBURY was incorporated as a town in 1807. It was formed from a section of the towns of Waterbury, Woodbury and Southbury. It derived its name from the fact of its occupying a middle position in reference to these towns. It is 22 miles from New Haven, and 36 from Hartford, bounded N. by Watertown and Woodbury, W. by Woodbury, S. by Oxford, and E. by Waterbury. It is about five miles in length from north to south, and an average breadth of about four.

The surface of the town is hilly and rocky, and its appearance rather rough and sterile. The rocks are principally granite, and the soil is a hard, coarse, gravelly loam, affording tolerable grazing; rye is cultivated with some success. The town forms one Congregational Society, and a society of Methodists, each of which has a house of worship in the center of the town. The number of inhabitants in 1830 was 816, being 31 less than there were in 1810. Agriculture is the principal business of the inhabitants. A satinet? factory has,...

Middlebury, Connecticut
New Haven county. The surface of this town is hilly and rocky; the soil is coarse, gravelly loam, fit for grazing and the growth of rye. It lies 36 miles W.S.W. from Hartford and 22 N.W. from New Haven. Incorporated, 1807. Population, 1830, 816. The town is watered by Quasepaug pond, which empties into the Housatonick, and furnishes a water power for a satinet factory, and other machinery.

Middlebury, a post-township of New Haven co., Connecticut, about 20 miles N. W. from New Haven. Population, 763.

Middlebury, mid-del-bar-re, a post-hamlet in Middlebury township, New Haven co, Conn., 6 miles W.S.W. of Waterbury. It has 2 churches, also several manufactories. Pop. of the township, 696.

Middlebury, a post-village in Middlebury township (town), New Haven co., Conn., 6 miles WSW. of Waterbury. It has various mills. Pop. of the town in 1900, 736.