About Bozrah, Connecticut

Bozrah is a town of 2,429 people in New London County, on the Yantic River. Its land was first settled within the original nine-miles-square of Norwich. Residents won permission to form a parish in 1715 but couldn't yet pay a minister, so the parish wasn't organized until 1737, under the name New Concord, as Norwich's Fourth Society. Rev. Benjamin Throop was ordained its first pastor in 1739 and served 46 years, and in 1786 New Concord became the town of Bozrah.

The first town meeting gathered in the meetinghouse on June 20, 1786, and the new town sent one deputy to the General Assembly. A newer meetinghouse was finished in 1815, the year Rev. David Austin became minister. After two years of debate over repairing it or starting over, work on the present Bozrah Congregational Church began in January 1843. The town paid $400 to hold its own meetings in the basement, and it met there for more than 100 years. The parsonage went up beside the church in 1872 on land given by Clarissa Haughton, and the two joined the National Register together in 1991.

“The hail stones were so large as to be taken for the falling of bricks from the chimney upon the roofs of the houses.”
Connecticut Historical Collections, 1837
  • The hailstorm of 1799Late on Monday, July 15, 1799, a dark cloud from the south collided with another out of the northwest, and by six o'clock Bozrah lay under a nearly black sky. Hailstones two and three inches across fell on winds close to hurricane force. Windows facing the storm broke, barns lost roofs, pigs, sheep and geese died, and hail drifts five or six inches deep lasted for days. Only two or three men and one or two children were knocked down.
  • Mills on the YanticBozrah's industry began in 1750, when Nehemiah Huntington and Capt. Joshua Abel opened an iron works at today's Fitchville. In 1814 New Yorker David L. Dodge and partners built a stone cotton and wool factory upriver at Bozrahville. Norwich's Thames Company took it in 1824, and in 1837 James Boorman and other New Yorkers bought it as the Kent Manufacturing Company.
  • Nathan Gilman's villageNathan Gilman came from Russia in 1897, and in 1905 he bought the Bozrahville mill along with nearly every house in the village. In March 1908 fire gutted the mill, a $75,000 loss with no insurance to cover it. Gilman still paid back every creditor within seven years, and the village carries his name today.
  • How Bozrah got its nameA local legend says the parish wanted Bath, after the English spa, but its Hartford messenger wore homespun so loud that a legislator recalled Isaiah's dyed garments from Bozrah, and the Assembly took the joke. An 1836 history said an old man near today's Fitchville once quoted "the prophet Bozrah," and neighbors named his corner for it. Frances Caulkins guessed Throop picked it because it reportedly meant sheepfold, and in 1866 she noted no other American town shared it.

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Places and landmarks14

  • Bargytown
  • Gilman
  • Fitchville
  • Blue Hill
  • Bear Hill Wildlife Management Area
  • Bozrah Congregational Church
  • Bozrah Town Hall
  • Bozrah Veterans Memorial
  • Brush Hill
  • Fields Memorial School
  • Hopemead State Park
  • Norwich Archery Club
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  • Odetah Camping Resort
  • Recreation Field

Streets and roads11

  • Fitchville Rd
  • Bozrah St
  • Blue Hill Rd
  • Brush Hill Rd
  • Brush Rd
  • Stockhouse Rd
  • Hill Rd
  • Caroline Rd
  • Roy Rd
  • Old South Rd
  • Wawecus Hill Rd

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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