Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA People, Pictures and News From the Past
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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 12 miles (19 km) 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.
1819 - Huntington Huntington, a post town, is situated on the west side of the Ousatonick river, being 17 miles from New-Haven, and 45 from Hartford. It is bounded north on Newtown, south on Stratford and Trumbull, west on Reading and Weston, and east on the Ousatonick river, which separates the town from Oxford and ...Read MORE...
1875 - Stopping Time A man in Shelton, Conn., bought a watch at an auction sale. He put it in his pantaloons pocket. When he got home he laid his pantaloons on the floor, and in the night his wife thought she heard a mouse in the room. She got up and reached for it, at last tracing it to the pantaloons, and with a stick...Read MORE...
1887 - MCARTHY’S FATAL NAP. While Intoxicated He Falls Asleep on the Railroad at Derby and is Run Over. John McCarthy a moulder employed at DeForest’s iron works at Shelton, while asleep on the track of the Naugatuck railroad at Derby last night was struck by the south bound train which passes that point about 11 o’clock. He was so terribly bruised that it is though impossible for him to live the day ...Read MORE...
1890 - A FATAL CONNECTICUT FIRE. Shelton, Conn., April 25. - Fire was discovered in the Birmingham Bone Comb manufactory on Division Street, yesterday. The flames spread to the Housatonic Brass Company's building, then to the Radcliff woolen mill, Horace Wheeler's grocery store, Newell's printing establishment and two dwelling hous...Read MORE...
1894 FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED. There was a bad smash-up on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated railroad at the Derby meadows near Shelton and only about 100 feet away from the bridge at 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon. A switching engine attached to some freight cars was backing down grade and was unable to slow up in time t...Read MORE...
1901 - TORNADO IN CONNECTICUT Path Swept Through Huntington Village - One Man Fatally Hurt.
Special to The New York Times.
ANSONIA, Conn. Sept. 16. - A tornado that swept in a fifty-foot patch through the farming community of Huntington last evening tore the three-story house of John Frawley from its foundations and turned...Read MORE...
1906 Shelton, a post-borough of Fairfield co., Conn., on the Housatonic River, opposite Birmingham. It has various manufactures. Pop. in 1900, 2837. 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 Added: 10/25/2014 1:36:30 PM - 1 Updated: -
1921 EIGHT DEAD; 25 HURT IN CAR CRASH. TROLLEYS MEET HEAD ON NEAR HIGHBRIDGE, CONN. EXPLOSION AND FIRE FROM GASOLINE ADDS TO CASUALTY LIST -- 5-GALLON CAN CARRIED IN FRONT VESTIBULE OF CAR -- FOUR OF VICTIMS CHILDREN.
Shelton, Conn., Feb. 22. - Eight persons were burned to death and 25 injured this afternoon when two trolley cars collided head-on on the Bridgeport - Shelton line...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
Charles William Blessing
(27 May 1920, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 18 April 2009, Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, USA)
Donald A Blessing
(17 April 1925, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 2 September 2009, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
(8 October 1932, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 22 March 2010, Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Marjorie Eleanor Blessing
(27 April 1928, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 09 July 1993, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Helen Louise Fratscher
(6 February 1901, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 27 April 1983, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Richard Clark Stevens
(22 January 1924, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA - 1 December 2005, West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Ancestors Who Died Here
Beryl E Pettingill
(11 August 1922, Jay, Franklin, Maine, USA - 12 December 2010, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA)
Walter Alexander Zelanin
(23 May 1927, West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - 8 November 2007, Shelton (Huntington), Fairfield, Connecticut, USA)
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