Now that we’ve returned from our Visit to Sperry Park, let’s look now at some documents! The land that makes up both Sperry Park and the adjoining Henry C. Hickox Memorial Park was donated to the Town of Woodbridge in 1907 and 1955, respectively. Just prior to the donation of the Hickox parcel, a map was drawn up from information apparently…
Category: history
Ancient Boundary Markers: Where two colonies met in old Woodbridge
On a recent visit to the Woodbridge Town Clerk’s vault, I came across a copy of an old newspaper article published in the New Haven Register on Sunday, November 26, 1933: Battered Boulders All That Remain Of Famous Boundary Carven Field Stones Amid Woodbridge Thickets Stand as Silent Guardians of Line Established by First Colonial Surveyors — Penalty Prevents Removal…
Census of 1790
The Census of 1790 was the first census conducted in the United States. It recorded the population as of “Census Day” — August 2, 1790. At this time, the population of the United States was enumerated to be 3,929,214 and the population of Connecticut was 237,946. The population of Woodbridge was counted as 2,124 according to figures published by the…
History of Woodbridge
An excerpt from: History of New Haven, Connecticut CHAPTER VI THE TOWN OF WOODBRIDGE Bv Reverend S. P. Marvin. Published in 1892 — Location and Natural Features — Geology and Mineralogy — Flora — Industries — The Regicide Judges — Amity Society — Union Society — Chapel — Ministers — — Burial Grounds — Prominent Citizens — List of Early Inhabitants —…
Prominent Citizens
The following profiles of prominent men of Woodbridge were published in Chapter VI of the 1892 “History of New Haven” Barnabas Baldwin Ephraim Baldwin Ebenezer Beecher Ebenezer Beecher, Jr. Thomas Darling Treat Clark Isaac Johnson John Lines David Lines Ebenezer Peck Phineas Peck John Peck Edwin J. Peck Samuel Newton Josiah Sherman Daniel Smith, 2d Daniel Treat Smith Willis Smith David Smith…
Biographical Sketches
Daniel C. Augur Ira W. Baldwin John J. Baldwin John W. Barker Charles N. Beecher John J. Beecher Jacob Beiseigel Jacob Beiseigel, Jr. G. Halsted Bishop Thomas Darling Stephen P. Bradley Oliver Stoddard Chatfield John Currie David E. Currie Lauren Doolittle Willis Doolittle John W. Downs Frederick F. Finney Charles C. Hitchcock Lewis Hitchcock Alfred F. Key Jacob Kunz John…