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  History of Seymour, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Seymour, Connecticut, USA

(Humphreysville)

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

     

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  First Woolen Mill in U.S., Seymour, Conn. Erected by Gen. David Humphrey, 1804.
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• 1806 - First factory town in America, planned and established in Seymour
  
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• 1850 - First known as Chusetown, then Humphreysville, the town incorporated in 1850 and was renamed Seymour.
  
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• 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. Population, 1067.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
•  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 Injury.
  
  WATERBURY, Conn., July 2. - In confusion, piled up end over end, nearly all of 11 loaded freight cars blocked the Naugatuck track to-day,...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 Bridgeport, and 11 miles N.W. of New Haven. It has a high # a newspaper office, 4 churches, and manufactures of coffins, hardware, paper, and woollen goods....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 miles NW. of New Haven. It has manufactures of electric-wire, edge-tools, metal goods, paper, horseshoe-nails, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 3541.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
  
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  Main Street, 1906
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  Souvenir of Humphreysville, Now Seymour, Conn.
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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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  Industries of Seymour, Conn., N.H. Copper Co., 1912
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  Albert Swan Memorial Hall
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  The Seymour Mfg. Company
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  Main Street
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  Railroad Station
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  Covered Bridge
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  Rimmon Eyelet Company
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  Tingue Mfg. Co.
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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 coffins. Cemetery workers carried corpses from broken coffins.
  
  While downstream communities built hasty sandbag dikes and evacuated low lying...Read MORE...