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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMSBURY , a township of See also:

Hartford See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., traversed by the Farmington See also:river and about 10 m. N.W. of Hartford. Pop. (1910) 2537. See also:Area about 38 sq. m. The township is served by the New See also:York; New Haven & Hartford and by the Central New See also:England See also:railways, which meet at Simsbury See also:village. Among the manufactures are fuses, cigars and See also:paper. A See also:tract along the Tunxus (now Farmington) river, called Massacoe or See also:Saco by the See also:Indians, was ceded to whites in 1648, and there were settlers here from See also:Windsor as See also:early as 1664. In 1670 the township was incorporated as Simsbury. In 1675, during See also:King See also:Philip's See also:War, Simsbury was abandoned; and in 1676 it was burnt and pillaged by the Indians; but it was resettled in the following See also:year. See also:Steel seems to have been made here from native See also:iron in 1727, and in 1739 the See also:General See also:Court of Connecticut granted to three citizens of Simsbury a fifteen years' See also:monopoly of making steel in the See also:colony. Owing to the See also:pine forests See also:pitch and See also:tar were important manufactures in early times.

From the N. of Simsbury the township of See also:

Granby (pop.191o,1383) was set off in 1786. In this See also:part of the township a See also:copper mine was worked between 1705 and 1745, and smelting and refining See also:works were built in 1721. In 1773 the mine was leased by the General Court and was fitted up as a public See also:gaol and workhouse (called Newgate See also:Prison), the prisoners being employed in See also:mining. Some Tories were imprisoned here after 1780; many of them escaped in May 1781. The prison was rebuilt in 1790 and was used until 1827. The W. of Simsbury was set off in 18o6 as See also:Canton (pop. in 1900, 2678). See N. A. See also:Phelps, See also:History of Simsbury, Granby and Canton from 1642 to 1845 (Hartford, 1845).

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