History of Newtown, Connecticut, USA

Newtown, a flourishing post town, is pleasantly situated in the northern section of the county, on the southwestern border of the Ousatonick river, 48 miles southwest from Hartford, and about 26 miles northwest from New-Haven; bounded on the northwest by Brookfield, on the northeast and east by the Ousatonick river, which separates it from Southbury, in New-Haven county, on the southeast by Huntington and Weston, and on the southwest by Reading and Danbury.

The township lies in a triangular form and comprises an area of about 50 square miles, having an average length from northwest to southeast of about 8 miles, and a mean breadth of more than 6 miles...

Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield county. This town was incorporated in 1708. It is watered by Patatuck river, the Indian name of the place. It lies 25 miles W.N.W. from New Haven, 10 E. from Danbury, and 22 N. from Fairfield. Population, 1830, 3,100.—The surface of the town is hilly; many of the eminences are extensive and continuous. The soil is principally a gravelly loam, generally fertile and productive. It is well adapted to the culture of grain, and is also favorable for fruit, there being many valuable orchards in the town. The borough if Newtown is beautifully situated on high ground; it commands an extensive prospect and contains some handsome buildings.

The flourishing village of Sandy Hook is situated about 1 1/ 2 miles N.E. of the central part of Newtown, at the foot of a rocky eminence or bluff, from the top of which is a fine prospect of the surrounding country. A fine mill stream (the Patatuck) runs in a northerly course through the village, at the base of the cliff,...

Newtown, a post-borough of Fairfield co., Connecticut, on the Housatonic railroad, 24 miles W. N. W. from New Haven. It consists of one long street, and has 4 churches and about 80 dwellings. Population of the town ship, 3338.

He had lived there five years, took only one meal daily, was worth $600,000, and his wardrobe, at the time of his death, was valued at twenty-five cents. Friends in Newtown, Conn., got his money.

Newtown, a post-village in Newtown township, Fair field co., Conn., on a high hill, and on the Housatonic Railroad, 19 miles N. by W. of Bridgeport, and about 9 miles E. of Danbury. It has a newspaper office, 3 churches, a savings-bank, and an academy. The township is bounded N.E. by Housatonic River, and contains a village named Sandy Hook. Pop. of the township, 4500. It has manufactures of buttons, combs, wool hats, and belting.

DANBURY, Conn., Oct. 9. - One person dead and more than a score injured is the result of a head-on collision of the Highland division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at 7:25 this evening directly in front of the station at Sandy Hook.

An excursion train of fourteen cars running from the Fair Grounds to Waterbury, failed to take a siding, it is alleged and crashed into the regular west-bound train standing in front of the station, discharging passengers. The engines on both trains were considerably damaged, but the first car on the excursion train was crushed, and the inside, which was crowded, was a mass of splinters, broken glass, and shrieking, wounded men and women.

Miss Mamie Quinlan of Naugatuck, aged twenty-two, who occupied a seat near the front end of the car, was so seriously injured that she died a few moments later injured that she died a few moments later in the station. Her companion, Michael Melia, was injured, but not seriously. Hardly a person in ...