History of Colebrook, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Colebrook, Connecticut, USA

• 1779 - (Colebrook, CT) - incorporated in 1779 and, early on, its abundant timber supply provided the means to make charcoal, which in turn fueled furnaces that made iron from ore brought in from Salisbury mines.
  
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• 1819 - Colebrook
  Colebrook, an elevated post township, is situated 31 miles northwest from Hartford, on the northern border of the county; bounded on the north by Mass...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1839 - Colebrook
  Colebrook, Connecticut
  Litchfield county. An elevated township of a hard gravelly soil and uneven surface, on the line of Massachusetts; 31 miles N.W...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Colebrook
  Colebrook, a post-township of Litchfield county, Connecticut, 20 miles N. W. from Hartford. Population, 1317.
  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.
  
  
•  1884 - Harvey Wakefield, who died recently in Colebrook, Conn, at the age of eighty-two, had a passion for saving all sorts of articles that people generally threw away.
  In his barn is a huge pile of newspapers, an it is said that every newspaper he had received in sixty years lies in that heap. - Hartford Post.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  August 23, 1884
  
  
• 1895 - Colebrook
  Cole'brook, a post-hamlet of Litchfield co., Conn., in Colebrook township (which is traversed by the Connecticut Western Railroad), 6 miles N.N.W. of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Colebrook Center
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  Colebrook River, Conn. Looking North
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• 1916
  Colebrook, a post-village of Litchfield co., Conn., in Colebrook township (town), 6 miles NNW. of Winsted. Pop. of the town in 1900, 684.
  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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  Birdseye View of Colebrook, Conn.
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  Colebrook Consolidated School, Colebrook, Conn.
  First occupied in Sept. 1949
  
  "... at a special Town Meeting held May 28, 1946 when it was resolved that the Town of Colebrook shall build a public school building not to cost more than... Read MORE...
  
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