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Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
Haddam, in Middlesex County, is located in south-central Connecticut in the lower Connecticut River Valley. It is also home to Cockaponset State Forest. Incorporated in October 1668 as Hadham, It was later renamed Haddam due to people saying Hadham too fast. Haddam is the only town in Connecticut divided by the Connecticut River. It contains five villages – Hidden Lake, Higganum, Shailerville, and Tylerville on the west side of the river, and Haddam Neck on the east...
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Haddam is the only town in Connecticut divided by the Connecticut River.
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1668 - (Haddam, CT) - Incorporated in October of 1668, Haddam is the only town in Connecticut divided by the Connecticut River.
It contains five villages – Hidden Lake, Higganum, Shailerville, and Tylerville on the west side of the river, and Haddam Neck on the east.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ haddam/
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1819 - Haddam
Haddam is a post township, situated upon the west side of the Connecticut river, 8 miles from Middletown, and 23 from Hartford.
The tract of land between Middletown and Saybrook, embracing this township, was originally called the lands at Thirty mile Island, from the Island in Connecticut river... Read MORE...
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1839 - Haddam
Haddam, Connecticut
One of the county towns of Middlesex county. Incorporated, 1668. This town lies on both sides of Connecticut river. Haddam Society, on the W. side, is the largest part of the town, and the seat of justice. That part of Haddam on the E. side is called Haddam Neck. There is but... Read MORE...
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1854 - Haddam
Haddam, a post-village and semi-capital of Middlesex county, Connecticut, on the right bank of the Connecticut river, 20 miles from its mouth, and 25 miles N. E. from New Haven. The inhabitants are engaged in ship building, the shad fisheries, and in the quarrying of stone, which is found in great... Read MORE...
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1859
HADDAM, a town of Connecticut, U.S., on the W. side of the Connecticut river, 80 m. SW of Boston. Pop. 2,599.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
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1895 - Haddam
Haddam, had'dam, a post-village and one of the capitals of Middlesex co., Conn., in Haddam township, on #. W. bank of the Connecticut River, about 20 miles from its mouth, and on the Connecticut Valley Railroad, 26 miles, S. by E. of Hartford. It has a church, the Brainerd Academy, and manufactures ... Read MORE...
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1916
Haddam, a post-village and one of the capitals of Middlesex co., Conn., in Haddam township (town), on the W. bank of the Connecticut River, about 20 miles from its mouth, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 26 miles S. by E. of Hartford. It has granite-quarries, etc. Pop. of the town in ... Read MORE...
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