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History of Seymour, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Seymour, Connecticut, USA

Visit Seymour, Connecticut, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1806 - First factory town in America, planned and established in Seymour
  
  www.ereferencedesk.com/ resources/ state-facts/ connecticut.html
  
  
• 1850 - First known as Chusetown, then Humphreysville, the town incorporated in 1850 and was renamed Seymour.
  
  connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ seymour
  
  
• 1854 - Seymour
  Seymour, a new township in New Haven co., Connecticut, on the Naugatuck river and railroad, about 10 miles N. W. from New Haven, contains 1 bank....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1889 - THE NAUGATUCK BLOCKED WRECK OF A NEW HAVEN FREIGHT.
  Eleven Loaded Cars Piled Up End Over End Near Seymour - As Imperfect Wheel Probably the Cause - No One Hurt - Some of the Train Hands Narrowly Escape ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Seymour
  Seymour, see'mer, a post-village in Seymour township, New Haven co., Conn., on Naugatuck River and the Naugatuck Railroad, 19 miles N.N.E. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Middle Falls
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  Seymour, Conn. from Castle Rock, 1905
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• 1906
  Seymour, a post-village in Seymour township (town), New Haven co., Conn., on the Naugatuck River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 10...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street, 1906
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  Brixey's Pond
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  Home of Seymour Fire Dept., 1910
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  Kerit Cable Factory
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  Main St., 1910
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  Memorial Building and Congregational Church
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  Plush Mill Dam
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  View of Rimmon Pond
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  Albert Swan Memorial Hall
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  Main Street
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  Railroad Station
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  Covered Bridge
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  Seymour High School, 1942
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  Town Hall and Seymour Fire Dept., Seymour, Conn., 1943
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•  1955 - Hurricane Diane
  ...At Seymour, Conn., flood victims watched the angry Naugatuck River undermine a cemetery, upending tombstones and digging out concrete vaults and...Read MORE...