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Granby is a town in northern Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 10,903 at the 2020 census. [1] The town center is defined as a census-designated place known as Salmon Brook. Other areas in town include North Granby and West Granby. Granby is a rural town, located in ...
The Clark Farm Tenant House site is a historical archaeological site in East Granby, Connecticut.It consists of the remnants of a farm outbuilding that was occupied in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by farm laborers, providing a rare window into the material culture associated with that population.
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Salmon Brook is the name of a census-designated place (CDP) corresponding to the village of Granby, [1] the primary settlement of the town of Granby, Connecticut, United States, in Hartford County. The population of the CDP was 2,324 as of the 2010 census.
The term Farmington Valley, as used in the local vernacular, refers primarily to the towns of Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, Canton and Granby. However, when defined by the course of the Farmington River, or by its entire watershed, the term can refer to large areas of land across the north central portion of Connecticut and into southern ...
The Frederick H. Cossitt Library is a historic library building at 388 N. Granby Road in Granby, Connecticut. It is a Queen Anne style building, designed by Jasper D. Sibley and built in 1890. Construction of the library was championed by George S. Godard , later librarian of the Connecticut State Library , and was funded by a bequest from ...
The area that is now West Granby village was first settled in the early 18th century, and was largely agrarian, with a sawmill established on the West Branch Salmon Brook about 1742. In 1784, the water power of the brook was harnessed for a gristmill, carding mill, trip hammer facility, and gin distillery. By 1819 it was one of the town's most ...
The East Granby Historic District encompasses a predominantly rural and agricultural area of the town of East Granby, Connecticut.Extending northward from the town center and covering some two square miles, it includes one of the state's highest concentrations of surviving 18th and early 19th-century farmsteads, and a relatively little-altered landscape.