woodbury
Woodbury's citizens have a rich heritage. The mellow beauty of her old houses and shaded streets bespeaks the slow and orderly growth of this community throughout more than two and half centuries. Modern Woodbury has an area of twenty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven acres and a population slightly over twenty-one hundred. One thousand one hundred and forty active voters continue to carry on the tradition of democratic self-government on which the town was founded. New voters are added each year and it's the purpose of the booklet, and of the supplements to be added from time to time, to acquaint them with the most important historical and political facts about the town and it government.
Woodbury was first settled in 1672-73. By this time Connecticut had three areas of settlement and government along its shore line and principal rivers. These were the Windsor-Wethersfield-Hartford colony, the Saybrook colony and the New Haven colony. Since Stratford on the Sound was Woodbury's parent town, Woodbury is a descendant of the New Haven group. However, by the time it was settled, the Commonwealth of Connecticut had become unified and centralized politically under the Royal Charter of 1662.
