Woodbury, Connecticut Woodbury, Connecticut Official seal of Woodbury, Connecticut Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
The center of Woodbury is distinct ive because, unlike many New England towns, it is not nucleated.
In Woodbury, the older buildings are arrayed in linear fashion along both sides of a road that stretches for over a mile.
The enhance buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church (1818), the Old Town Hall (1846), the United Methodist Church, the St.
The Woodbury Temple echoes the many temples of the Greek world that were perched at the edge of high places from which they could be seen from miles around and from far out at sea.
Woodbury is one of the two suburbs in Litchfield County, along with Bethlehem, served by the region code 203/area code 475 overlay.
The Town of Woodbury is regularly mentioned on the tv show Gilmore Girls.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 36.7 square miles (95 km2), of which 36.5 square miles (95 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of (0.74%) is water.
Woodbury lies in the Pomperaug River Valley, a tributary of the Housatonic River.
The Pomperaug River is formed in Woodbury by the confluence of the Nonnewaug River and the Weekeepeemee River.
Woodbury Center The framers of ancient Woodbury came from Stratford in the early 1670s.
Ancient Woodbury consisted of the present suburbs of Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bethlehem, most of Washington and parts of Middlebury and Oxford.
One, a group of theological dissidents unhappy with the church in Stratford, was led by Woodbury's first minister, Reverend Zachariah Walker.
The two groups, consisting of fifteen families (about fifty citizens ), appeared in ancient Woodbury, known as "Pomperaug Plantation", early in 1673.
The settlement was titled Woodbury, which means "dwelling place in the woods," and was first recognized as a town in 1674.
Deacon and captain John Minor was the first prestige of the improve amid Woodbury's early years.
Minor was the first town clerk and along with Lieutenant Joseph Judson served as the first deputy to the Connecticut General Court from the town of Woodbury.
On October 9, 1751, the town of Woodbury was transferred from Fairfield County at the formation of Litchfield County.
On March 25, 1783, a meeting of ten Episcopal clergy in Woodbury, Connecticut, propel Samuel Seabury (1729 1796) the first American Episcopal bishop, the second presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, and the first bishop of Connecticut.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.25% White, 0.53% African American, 0.22% Native American, 1.15% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other competitions, and 0.57% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,715 homeholds out of which 31.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 58.9% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 30.7% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 29.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $68,322, and the median income for a family was $82,641.
About 2.3% of families and 4.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 4.9% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.
There were 618 homeholds out of which 25.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.9% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 45.5% were non-families.
In the CDP the populace was spread out with 20.6% under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $51,136, and the median income for a family was $65,227.
Woodbury is part of the Region 14 School District consisting of Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Middle School, Bethlehem Elementary School, Mitchell Elementary School, and STAR Preschool Program. Glebe House (Woodbury, Connecticut) Paul's Episcopal Church (Woodbury, Connecticut) The composer Leroy Anderson (1908 1975) who wrote the Christmas classic Sleigh Ride as well as many other well known compositions, lived in Woodbury from 1948 until his death in 1975. His widow Eleanor Anderson (1918-2014) lived in Woodbury from 1948 until her death. Jazz guitarist Joe Beck (1945-2008) lived in Woodbury until his death in 2008.
Presidential portraitist and civil rights artist Robert Templeton (1929-1991) lived in Woodbury and maintained his studio there from 1965 until his death.
Surrealist painter and poet Kay Sage moved to Woodbury in 1941 with her husband French artist Yves Tanguy at Town Farm, where they maintained dual studios.
The Woodbury Songbook Cover of a library copy the "Woodbury Songbook" with spelling error of the place's name The German composer Hanns Eisler, who had taken asylum in the USA, fleeing from the Nazi rule in Germany, spent three and a half months (from June 15 to September 30, 1941) in Woodbury as guest of another German refugee, Dr.
The music were composed for female voices and suitable for a school chorus. This was presented as "The Woodbury Songbook", or, in German, "Das Woodbury Liederbuchlein" with the lyrics in English and German, unfortunately with a wrong spelling of Woodbury with two "r"s.
Voices - A small-town journal serving Southbury, Middlebury, Oxford, Seymour, Naugatuck, Woodbury, Bethlehem, New Preston, Washington, Washington Depot, Roxbury, Bridgewater, Monroe, Sandy Hook and Newtown.
Macaroni Kid - An affairs calendar for families in Bridgewater, Roxbury, Bethlehem, Woodbury, Southbury, Oxford, Watertown, Oakville, Middlebury, Waterbury, and Naugatuck.
History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, William Cothren, 1872 Old Woodbury in the Revolution: The Five Parishes and their Soldiers.
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Regional School District 14 serves Woodbury and Bethlehem.
Pomperaug Health District serves Woodbury, Southbury and Oxford.
Municipalities and communities of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
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