About Seymour, Connecticut

Seymour is a town of 16,748 people in New Haven County, built around the falls of the Naugatuck River. In the late 1600s the site was a Native American settlement called Wesquantuck. Later the Paugusset and Schaghticoke people lived at Chusetown, named for the sachem Joseph Mauwehu, whom everyone called Chuse. The land belonged to Derby, and after General David Humphreys opened his mill at the falls, the village there became Humphreysville. It was made a borough inside Derby in 1836.

The first locomotive pulled into Humphreysville on May 10, 1849, and a year later the village set out to leave Derby. Its bill reached the legislature printed with the name Richmond, but Judge Munson proposed Seymour, for Governor Thomas H. Seymour, and the Rev. Sylvester Smith backed him. The town was incorporated under that name in May 1850. Some residents still wanted the general's name, so in 1856 the town voted on becoming Humphrey, and Seymour won, 117 to 81.

“It is short, our Governor and the Speaker of the House have that name, and it is an eminent name in Connecticut, and we will have it the name of our town.”
History of Seymour, 1879
  • Cloth for two presidentsOn his way home from Spain, Humphreys sent back a flock of 100 merino sheep. He bought the dam and mills at the falls in 1803, and his woolen factory's frame rose in June 1806. Seventy-three of his apprentices came from the New York almshouse. He taught them in evening and Sunday classes and drilled them as a uniformed militia. President Jefferson ordered the mill's cloth in November 1808, and President Madison wore Humphreysville broadcloth at his 1809 inauguration.
  • The doctor's and the general's houseDr. Samuel Sanford, the first physician here, came in 1790, and the rear wing of 61-63 West Street is partly credited to him. Allowed to inoculate against smallpox in 1797, he ran a hospital north of Castle Rock. In 1803 Humphreys bought the property from the doctor's estate and added the main house. The general died in 1818, and his nephew John lived there while running the mill. The Sanford-Humphreys House joined the National Register in 1982.
  • Paper, augers and a damWalter French arrived from Mansfield around 1810 and hand-made screw augers. Money was scarce, so augers and paper passed for money. The village paper mill worked day and night in 1832, making printing stock for the New Haven Palladium. Connecticut's first paper from straw was made at a mill here in 1837. Rowing at Kinneytown in 1844, Raymond French found a rock ledge, stepped into water about three feet deep, walked across, and dammed the river there.
  • 456 students in 1886Seymour started its first public high school on Bank Street in 1884, on two acres that cost the town $3,000. When it opened in the fall of 1886, 456 students filled its nine rooms. The building later became Center School, and Seymour High School and Annex joined the National Register in 1983.

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Places and landmarks30

  • Kinneytown
  • West Seymour
  • Ansonia
  • Bungay School
  • Chatfield-LoPresti School
  • Citizens Engine Company
  • Downtown Seymour Historic District
  • Evangelical Baptist Church
  • Fountain Lake
  • French Memorial Park
  • Gary Park
  • Great Hill Hose Company
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  • Keith Mitchell Forest
  • Kingdom Hall
  • Little Laurel Lime Park
  • Naugatuck State Forest - Great Hill Block
  • Saint Augustines Church
  • Sanford-Humphreys House
  • Seymour Cinemas 12
  • Seymour High School and Annex
  • Seymour Historical Society Museum
  • Seymour Land Conservation Trust
  • Seymour Middle School
  • Seymour Police Department
  • Seymour Public Library
  • Seymour Town Hall
  • Seymour United Methodist Church
  • Sochrin Park
  • Sochrin's Pond
  • Trinity Episcopal Church

Streets and roads21

  • Bank St
  • Grand St
  • Shelton St
  • River St
  • Bruning Rd
  • Legion Rd
  • New Haven Rd
  • Briarwood Dr
  • Lakeview Ave
  • Mountain Rd
  • Pearl St
  • Derby Ave
  • Maple St
  • Main St
  • Colony Rd
  • Smith St
  • Laurel Ln
  • Maiden Ln
  • Buckingham Rd
  • Roosevelt Dr
  • Manners Ave

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