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Derby, Connecticut, USA

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Where is Derby, Connecticut, USA? 

Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Derby was settled in 1642 as an Indian trading post under the name Paugasset. It was named after Derby, England, in 1675. Derby was incorporated on May 13, 1775.
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Derby, Connecticut, USA - City Hall
Derby, Connecticut, USA

City Hall
Derby, Connecticut, USA - St. Mary's Church, Convent and School
Derby, Connecticut, USA

St. Mary's Church, Convent and School
Derby, Connecticut, USA - Town Pump
Derby, Connecticut, USA

Town Pump
Derby, Connecticut, USA - Bridge over Housatonic River
Derby, Connecticut, USA

Bridge over Housatonic River

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1675 - (Derby, CT) Settled as a Native American trading post in 1654, it was named after Derby, England, in 1675.

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1681 First water-powered grist mill opened in Derby

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1819 - Derby
Derby, an ancient commercial post town, is situated upon the eastern side of the Ousatonick river,...Read MORE...

1819 - First industrial training school, established by Josiah Holbrook in Derby

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1833 – A family of Bethany Indians resettled in Derby by the selectmen is wiped out by smallpox; there are in all six men, three squaws, and three children; only the children survive the epidemic.
The family, named Mack, support themselves by making baskets and by hunting. They are among the...Read MORE...

1859
DERBY, a township of New Haven co., in the state of Connecticut, 44 m. SW of Hartford, watered by...Read MORE...

1870 - Housatonic Dam opened in Derby

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News  1882 - HIGH WATER AT DERBY. The Scene at the Ousatonic Dam - Freshets of Past Years.
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 25.- The steady down pour of rain during Saturday, both day and night, caused the ...Read MORE...

News  1908 - SPEEDING MOGUL BLOWS UP.
Trainmen Hurt, Locomotive and Cars Wrecked, and Tracks Torn Up.
Special to The New York...Read MORE...

1916
Derby, der'be, a banking city of New Haven co., Conn., in Derby township (town), on the Housatonic...Read MORE...


Ancestors Who Were Born Here

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Ancestors Who Were Married Here


1668
Joseph HAWKINS (3 April 1642 - 12 October 1682) & Abigail HOLBROOK (21 May 1648 - 1681)
married 8 April 1668

1727
Eleazer HAWKINS (27 November 1706 - 1734) & Damaris WOOSTER (20 February 1708 - )
married 13 December 1727

1754
Zadock HAWKINS (abt. 1733 - 20 October 1777) & Lydia WILMOT (23 July 1734 - 4 August 1820)
married 4 August 1754
 

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