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Derby / ˈ d ɜːr b i / is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, approximately 8 miles (13 km) west-northwest of New Haven.It is located in southwest Connecticut at the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers.
The Derby Turnpike was the longest-lived of the state's early toll roads and only stopped collecting tolls in 1895. West of downtown Derby, another turnpike corporation, the Ousatonic Turnpike, was chartered also in 1795 to build a toll road between Derby and New Milford following the east bank of the Housatonic River. Unlike the Derby Turnpike ...
King St, Greenwich... parts in CT and other parts along NY/CT line Route 121: 5.66: 9.11 US 1 in Milford: Route 34 in Orange: 1932: current Route 122: 3.51: 5.65 I-95/SR 745 in West Haven: Route 63 in New Haven: 1932: current Route 123: 8.37: 13.47 US 1 in Norwalk: NY 123 at the New York state line 1932: current realigned in 1934 Route 124 — —
Similarly, the Wilbur Cross Highway (CT Route 15) merges with I-84 on the left side in East Hartford, and aligns with the lanes of I-84 heading northeast towards Sturbridge. As designed, this would have allowed I-84 to continue east towards Rhode Island, and the Wilbur Cross Highway to follow I-86 to Massachusetts.
In 1951, the Ansonia–Derby–Shelton Expressway portion between Constitution Boulevard in Shelton and Pershing Drive in Derby (including the Commodore Isaac Hull Memorial Bridge) opened to traffic. As part of the freeway upgrades to Route 8, the southern terminus was shifted west from Stratford to Bridgeport, taking over old Route 65.
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial ...
Route 34 in Derby: Bridge Street — — SR 713: 0.27: 0.43 Route 15 in Fairfield: Route 59 in Fairfield: Congress Street — — SR 714: 0.24: 0.39 Huntington Street in Shelton: Route 108 in Shelton: Bridgeport Avenue, Center Street — — SR 715: 0.51: 0.82 I-91 in North Haven: Route 103 in North Haven: Universal Drive, Montowese Avenue ...
The Lower Naugatuck Valley refers to the area focused on the city of Derby. The towns within the watershed area of the lower valley are Shelton, Seymour, Woodbridge, Ansonia, and Derby. The towns of Beacon Falls, Oxford, and Naugatuck, usually grouped together in the central valley region, are also sometimes assigned to the lower valley region.