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Upstairs is located the Selectmen's room in which many meetings are held, and court matters settled. Here it is hoped, at some future date, items of local historic interest may be put on display, when other quarters are available for town offices.

Children watching Governor signing

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…

"Zion Church, North Branford stands today on Notch Hill Road, the oldest public building in town, and a silent witness to one hundred sixty-five years of North Branford history. Since the histories of a town and those of its churches are inextricably…

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. …

Transcript of the historical sermon, letters, greetings and addresses shared at the 175th anniversary exercises of the Congregational Church in North Branford held on October 15, 1902.

The front of the original Atwater Memorial Library

Taken on the front steps of Atwater Memorial Library on the day the building was dedicated.

Front Row from left to right -- Rev. DeVries, pastor of the North Branford Congregational Church; Douglas B. Holabird, First Selectman; Mrs. Frederick Davis, Library Board Member; Mr. Atwater's Daughter; Miss Ann Willson, Secretary to Mr. Atwater;…

Miss Ann Willson giving the deeds and legal papers to Mr. Douglas B. Holabird, Selectman making the library town property. Left to right in picture, Judge Ellsworth B. Foote; Governor Raymond E. Baldwin; Mrs. Alden J. Hill and Rev. Fr. McCarthy.