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Welcome
to Colebrook, Connecticut |
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The last
town in colonial Connecticut to be settled. Colebrook was named after a town
in Devonshire, England. The reason is now unknown. The year 1765 saw Benjamin
Horton, leader of a trickle of settlers, arrive amid virgin forests. Samuel
Rockwell, among those who shortly followed two years afterward, built one of
the outpost's first houses. Here before long was born Colebrook's first
child, a boy who parents fittingly named him Alpha. Iron
forges soon developed, ore being drawn by oxen from Salisbury for smelting
with the plentiful local wood. Cannon for use in the Revolution were made and
lugged where needed. A story connects one of those with the piece on exhibit
in Quebec whose label states "Taken by the British at Bunker Hill." Notable
structures from the past crowd about this marker. Northward on the left is
the Samuel Rockwell House (1767); below it is the Colebrook Store (1812), a
Greek Revival gem and a federally registered historic building. |
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© 2008
Town of Colebrook, Colebrook, Connecticut |
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