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SALMON BROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY · GENEALOGY · VOLUNTEER · GRANBY, CT
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Part of the SBHS Campus
This small saltbox house was built in 1790 by Moses Weed and given to his son Moses
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The house was built c. 1780. By the 1820 census, Levi Chapman (married to Mercy)
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An earlier house was probably built on this site before 1788 because that year James
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This house was also one of a group of houses built about 1830 on a block of land
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The original house on this lot was built c. 1750 and was for the first minister in Granby
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This house was built in 1850, probably by Samuel Benjamin. It was next owned
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This sprawling Italianate structure was built in 1858 for James Newton Loomis who
2 PARK PLACE
The house at 2 Park Place was built in 1805 by Pliny Hillyer, a very prosperous merchant,
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In 1797 the owner was blacksmith Gurdon Gould. It was sold to Thomas and
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The Academy/library building in this picture was built in 1870 on the location of
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There was a house on this site in 1855 but it was gone by 1869. Then about 1897,
The Abijah Rowe house is the oldest remaining building from the original Salmon
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It is not known when this house was built. It is not on the map in 1869 but by the
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A simpler version of this house was built between 1869 and 1890 for the Timothy on
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This house was built about 1830 and is one of three houses built on Jewett land.
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This house was probably built in 1814 for Isaac Phelps, a prosperous farmer, and
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In c 1778 records show there was a tavern owned by Pliny Hillyer, in 1822 it seems Isaac
GRANBY GREEN
On July 3, 1868, the men of Granby went to the Green to help erect the new Soldiers’
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People of a certain age in Granby still remember the large sprawling building
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This house was built about 1875 by Asel Rice who married Mary Church. Asel played the
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The house that was previously on this site was probably built between 1780-1790 for
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At least the rear of this house was estimated to have been built in 1790. The remainder
The Cooley Schoolhouse was built c. 1878 on the northeast corner of East Street and
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This house was built by Jonathan Church in 1816. Jonathan was married to
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This house was built c. 1830 by Mary Jewett Smith and was one of three houses
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This imposing house was probably built in the summer of 1861 for Harrison and
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There were three versions of the Loomis Bros. store. The first store was this one on the
4 EAST GRANBY ROAD
This elegant mansion on the north edge of the town green is a Granby landmark. The
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Within a month of the disastrous fire at their first store, at #259 on the west side
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The house was built in 1873 for The Rev. Thomas D. Murphy who was the minister
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In 1893 S. J. Benjamin planned to build a church on the Sanford lot, or current