Landforms of Litchfield County, Connecticut - Naugatuck River Valley, Rivers of Litchfield County, Connecticut, Oxford, Connecticut (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Naugatuck River Valley, Rivers of Litchfield County, Connecticut, Oxford, Connecticut, Beacon Falls, Connecticut, Seymour, Connecticut, Shelton, Connecticut, Taconic Mountains, Brace Mountain, Naugatuck, Connecticut, The Berkshires, Housatonic River, Farmington River, Indian Well State Park, Lake Waramaug State Park, Lower Naugatuck Valley, Bear Mountain, Mount Frissell, Twin Lakes, West River, Saville Dam, Round Mountain, Kent Falls State Park, Gridley Mountain, Shepaug River, Wildcat Hollow, Connecticut, Pomperaug River, Ten Mile River, Lake Lillinonah, Haystack Mountain, Kent Hollow, Connecticut, East Aspetuck River. Excerpt: Shelton is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 38,101 at the 2000 census. Shelton was settled by the English as part of the town of Stratford, Connecticut in 1639. On May 15, 1656, the Court of the Colony of Connecticut in Hartford, affirmed that the town of Stratford included all of the territory twelve miles inland from Long Island Sound, between the Housatonic River and the Fairfield town line. In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor, had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe. Shelton was split off from Stratford in 1789, as Huntington (named for Samuel Huntington). The current name originated in a manufacturing village started in the 1860s named for the Shelton Company founded by Edward N. Shelton - also founder of Ousatonic Water Power Company. The rapidly growing borough of Shelton incorporated as a city in 1915 and was consolidated with the town of Huntington in 1919 establishing the present City of Shelton. Shelton was home to one of the largest arson fires in ...