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Includes a brief description of the use of Linsley Pond for teaching and research by Yale University.

Includes the origins of the Shore Line Electric Railway, a trolley line with service running between New Haven and Old Saybrook, through North Branford, Includes accounts of the deadly wreck that occurred in North Branford on August 13 1917, killing…

Includes a history of the North Branford Congregational Church, United Church of Christ.

This paper shows the trends in cost of town government over the last 100 years. The information is drawn from several manuscript ledgers and includes records of the two School Societies and town Treasurer and Selectmen. Also included is an almost…

Historical sketch of the history of Branford and North Branford and the tract of land called Totoket, from the Indian word "toket", meaning "at the tidal river." From the first purchase of land by Theophilus Eaton from the Mattabeseck Indians to the…

An Eagle Scout project of Christopher De Matteo who selected and research historic points of interest in North Branford, created a path to visit the sights, created plaques, and mapped the points on a map for the public to view and use.

Includes a transcription of the original diary of Charles S. Dudley during the Civil War period of 1862-1863.

A letter from Charles Atwater to Womrath Bookshops & Libraries in New York concerning imperfect copies of a book that were sent to him and the Atwater Memorial Library.

Letter from Charles Atwater to The Library Board of North Branford concerning the creation o f a library.

A brief history of North Branford/Northford, from the 1600's early settlement of Totoket on a tract of land including the present towns of Branford and North Branford/Northford to the separation from Branford and its incorporation as town in 1831. …