Killingworth (Connecticut)

Middlesex County

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Killingworth is a town in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

History

In 1663, the area where today Killingsworth and neighboring Clinton lie, as " Homonoscitt " (from Hammonasset, a river ) was first settled. Already in 1667 the settlement was renamed " Kenilworth " and since about 1705 the name " Killingworth " is in use. In 1734 the town was divided into two municipalities, Killingworth and Clinton in the north to the south on the coast, but they were until 1838 a kind of " community network", only this year the final separation was carried out

Yale University

In the year 1701 at the home of Abraham Pierson, the rector Collegiate School founded in what is now Clinton, who moved to a few other stations as Yale University in New Haven 1718.

Train

  • Haddam - Killingworth Middle School
  • Killingworth elemantary School

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Abel Buell, published in 1784, the first map of the United States which was made by an American.
  • Jonathan Bush, brother of former U.S. president George HW Bush and uncle of former U.S. President George W. Bush
  • Jeff Bagwell, former player of American Major League Baseball

Footnotes

  • Place in Connecticut
  • Location in North America
  • Middlesex County ( Connecticut )
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