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Welcome
to Litchfield County Connecticut
Trails to the
Past
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or marriages, news clippings, births, and
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Administrator for Connecticut. Please
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Litchfield
County was created on October 9, 1751, by an act
of the Connecticut General Court from land
belonging to Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford
counties. The act establishing the county
states:
That the townships of
Litchfield, Woodbury, New Milford,
Harwinton, New Hartford, Barkhamsted,
Hartland, Colebrook,
Norfolk, Canaan,
Salisbury, Kent, Sharon, Cornwall, Goshen,
Torrington, and Winchester, lying in the
northwesterly part
of this Colony, shall be
and remain one entire county,and be
called
the County of Litchfield, and shall have and
exercise
the same powers, priviledges
and authorities, and be subject
to the same
regulations, as the other counties in this
Colony
by law have and are subject unto. The
bounds of which
county shall extend north to
the Colony line, and west to the
Colony line
till it meets with the township of New
Fairfield,
and to include the towns above
mentioned.
Between 1780 and 1807, several
new towns were created at the boundaries between
Litchfield County and other counties in
Connecticut. The town of Watertown was
established in 1780 from Waterbury and was
placed under Litchfield County jurisdiction. The
establishment of the town of Brookfield from
part of New Milford in 1788 resulted in
Litchfield County losing territory to Fairfield
County. In 1796, the town of Hartland was
transferred to Hartford County. In 1798, the
town of Oxford was established from part of
Southbury causing Litchfield County to lose
territory to New Haven County. The establishment
of the town of Canton in 1806 from part of New
Hartford caused loss of territory to Hartford
County. In 1807, the town of Southbury was
transferred to New Haven County. The final
boundary change occurred on October 8, 1807,
when the town of Middlebury was established from
part of Woodbury.
Cities, Towns, and
Villages
Barkhamsted (Town)
Bethlehem (Town)
Bridgewater (Town)
Canaan (Town)
Colebrook (Town)
Cornwall (Town)
Goshen (Town)
Harwinton (Town)
--
Northwest Harwinton (a village of Harwinton)
Kent (Town)
--South Kent (a village of
Kent)
Litchfield (Town) Former county seat
-- Bantam (a borough of Litchfield)
Morris (Town)
New Hartford (Town)
New Milford (Town)
--Gaylordsville (a
village of New Milford)
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Norfolk
(Town)
North Canaan (Town)
Plymouth
(Town)
-- Terryville (a village of Plymouth)
Roxbury (Town)
Salisbury (Town)
Sharon (Town)
Thomaston (Town)
Torrington (City)
Warren (Town)
Washington (Town)
-- New Preston (a
village of Washington)
Watertown (Town)
-- Oakville (a section of Watertown)
Winchester (Town)
-- Winsted (a city of
Winchester)
Woodbury (Town)
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Adjacent
Counties
Berkshire County,
Massachusetts (north)
Hampden County,
Massachusetts (northeast)
Hartford
County (east)
New
Haven County (southeast)
Fairfield
County (south)
Dutchess County, New York
(west)
Columbia County, New York (northwest)
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