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Year Established
County
Villages
Historical Society
  
 
1741
Litchfield
Lakeville, Lime Rock, Amesville, Joyceville, Ore Hill, Taconic, and Twin Lakes
Salisbury Association Local History Room 
P.O. Box 374 
Salisbury, Connecticut 06068 
Phone: (860) 435-2074
Brief History:
  
Created in October of 1741. It is located at the northwestern corner of Connecticut. Salisbury is probably best known for its very rich and productive iron mines, one of which is known as the "Old Ore Hill," located two miles west of the Wanscopommuc Lake, has been since the year 1732. At that time, and for years afterwards, the ore was found lying near the surface of the earth, and was carried off in considerable quantities by those who desired to make use of it. The site of the "Old Ore Hill" was owned by one Bissell, who obtained the grant several years before the town was incorporated. About the year 1732, one Thomas Lamb obtained a grant of fifty acres of land, and erected the first forge built in Salisbury. His grant was situated in the southeast part of the town, on Salmon River, now called Lime Rock. From that period until the present time, the demands upon the "Old Ore Hill" have been constant. Within the last ten or twelve years, from five to six thousand tons of ore have been dug annually. The ore is sold at the mine for $3 a ton. One dollar and twenty five cents of this money is paid to the proprietors of the ore bed as a duty. The other dollar and seventy five cents belongs to the digger, from whose pit the ore is taken. The first furnace erected at Salisbury was built about the year 1762, upon the outlet of the Wanscopommuc Lake, two miles east of the "Old Ore Hill." It is one of the oldest establishments in the county, and was erected by Messrs. Samuel and Elisha Forbes, Ethan Allen (the hero of Ticonderoga), and a Mr. Hazeltine. (The articles of agreement entered into by these gentlemen are still extant upon the records of the town). During the Revolutionary war, cannons were manufactured at this furnace, for government; also cannon balls and bomb shells. (Courtesy of Connecticut Historical Collections......History and Antiquities of Every Town inConnecticut......2D Ed.; John Warner Barber, 1798-1885; Publisher: Durrie and Peck and JW, 1837.)
 
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