Old Saybrook, Connecticut Old Saybrook, Connecticut Official seal of Old Saybrook, Connecticut Old Saybrook is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
It contains the incorporated borough of Fenwick, as well as the census-designated places of Old Saybrook Center and Saybrook Manor.
6 National Register of Historic Places in Old Saybrook in 1624, shortly after establishing their first settlement at Governors Island, Dutch pioneer established a short-lived factorij at present day Old Saybrook.
The Pequot siege of Saybrook Fort took place from September 1636 to March 1637 amid the Pequot War.
Following the August 1636 Massachusetts Bay attack on Manisses, Pequot, and Western Niantic villages, the Pequot retaliation fell on the English at Saybrook.
During an eight-month time period, the Pequot killed and wounded more than twenty English at and near Saybrook Fort.
During the Siege and Battle of Saybrook Fort, the Pequot and English assessed each other's military capabilities, and adjusted counter-tactics.
Lessons learned amid the siege of Saybrook escalated the Pequot War in Connecticut Colony, and indirectly resulted in the attack and destruction of Mistick Fort (May 1637).
The Saybrook Colony was established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River, in what is today Old Saybrook and environs.
In 1644, Fenwick agreed to merge the colony with the more vibrant Connecticut Colony a several miles up river, which purchased the territory and fort from him.
The design of the Flag of Connecticut comes from the seal of Saybrook Colony.
In 1647 Mason assumed command of Saybrook (Colony) Fort which controlled the chief trade and supply route to the upper river valley.
On October 9, 1701 the Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in Old Saybrook.
Turtle - the first American submarine - was invented in Westbrook Connecticut in 1775 by David Bushnell; a replica is homed at Old Saybrook Senior High School.
The General Assembly created the separate town of Old Saybrook from Saybrook in 1852.
Old Saybrook was partitioned again in 1854 when the northern part became the town of Essex. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 21.6 square miles (56.0 km ), of which, 15.0 square miles (39.0 km ) of it is territory and 6.6 square miles (17.0 km ) of it (30.45%) is water.
Old Saybrook Center (includes Saybrook Point) Under the Koppen climate classification system, Old Saybrook, along with much of the easterly Connecticut coast, lies in the broad transition zone from the colder continental climates of New England and New York, to the temperate climates of the Middle Atlantic states to the south.
The warm season in Old Saybrook is from late May through mid-October.
Old Saybrook receives from one half to one third as much winter snow flurry as inland Connecticut and New York State.
Old Saybrook and New London average about 25 inches of snow flurry annually compared to 45 inches in Hartford and 61 inches in Albany, New York.
In Old Saybrook, winter temperatures are moderated not only by Long Island Sound, but also by the Connecticut River and the large fitness of marshes and tidal rivers in and around its delta.
Coastal Connecticut (including Old Saybrook) is the broad transition zone where so-called "subtropical indicator" plants and other broadleaf evergreens can successfully be cultivated.
Old Saybrook averages about 90 days annually with freeze (temperatures of 32 F/0 C) - about the same as Baltimore, Maryland, or Albuquerque, NM, for example.
There were 4,184 homeholds out of which 27.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 59.4% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 21.7% under the age of 18, 4.1% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 27.6% from 45 to 64, and 21.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $62,742, and the median income for a family was $72,868.
There were 4,247 homeholds out of which 23.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 56.2% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 21.4% under the age of 20, 3.4% from 20 to 24, 16.4% from 25 to 44, 33.5% from 45 to 64, and 25.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $80,347, and the median income for a family was $97,399.
The platforms at the Old Saybrook train station.
Main article: Old Saybrook (Amtrak station) Old Saybrook's train station opened in 1873 and was rebuilt in 2002.
The high-speed Acela Express passes through Old Saybrook but does not stop; service is provided by the conventional Northeast Regional.
The Estuary Transit District provides enhance transit services throughout Old Saybrook and the encircling towns through its 9 Town Transit services.
One airways broadcast is licensed to Old Saybrook: WLIS AM 1420 (variety) Old Saybrook South Green, added September 3, 1976 Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse, added May 29, 1990 She directed a drugstore in Hartford until 1911, when she went to work for her brother-in-law at his pharmacy in Old Saybrook, renaming it James Pharmacy and making her the first female African American pharmacist in the state.
Old Saybrook, Connecticut 2016 175.jpg Old Saybrook, Connecticut 2016 177.jpg Saybrook, Illinois is titled in honor of Old Saybrook.
(1884), "Town of Old Saybrook", The History of Middlesex County 1635-1885, J.
Connecticut Society of Genealogists: Old Saybrook Wojtas, Joe, "Hepburn's Town to Honor Her With a Theater", The New York Times, "Connecticut" section, page 2, February 18, 2007 Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Old Saybrook.
Old Saybrook Historical Society Old Saybrook Republican Town Committee
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Old Saybrook, Connecticut - Towns in Middlesex County, Connecticut - Populated places on the Connecticut River - Towns in Connecticut - Populated coastal places in Connecticut - Greater Hartford - 1624 establishments in the Dutch Empire
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