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Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, USA
The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts (now Woodstock, Connecticut) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement. In 1703 it was officially separated from Plainfield and named as the Town of Canterbury.
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Where is Canterbury, Connecticut, USA? Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, USA
The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts (now Woodstock, Connecticut) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement. In 1703 it was officially separated from Plainfield and named as the Town of Canterbury.
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Canterbury Historical Society
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www.facebook.com/ CanterburyHistoricalSociety.CT
Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
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1703 - First settled as a part of Plainfield in the late 1600s, it was officially separated and named Canterbury in 1703, becoming the state’s 38th town.
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1819 - Canterbury
Canterbury is a post township, 40 miles east from Hartford; bounded on the north by Brooklyn, on...Read MORE...
Canterbury is a post township, 40 miles east from Hartford; bounded on the north by Brooklyn, on...Read MORE...
1831 - (Canterbury, CT) - In 1831 Prudence Crandall opened a private school for girls but when she allowed—and then focused exclusively on—education for young African American women, informal and legal protests began.
A mob attack forced the school’s closure in 1834.
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A mob attack forced the school’s closure in 1834.
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1833 - June 27 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Connhistoryorb.com
June 27, 1833
1859
CANTERBURY, a township of Windham co., in the state of Connecticut, 12 m. N or Norwich. On the E it ...Read MORE...
CANTERBURY, a township of Windham co., in the state of Connecticut, 12 m. N or Norwich. On the E it ...Read MORE...
1869 - Wore suit for more than 50 yearsAn old man in Canterbury, Conn., seventy-five years of age, died recently and was buried in a suit...Read MORE...
1916
Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township (town), on...Read MORE...
Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township (town), on...Read MORE...
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