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History of Branford. In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded "eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English fashion" to the Mattabesec Indians for land known as Totokett (Tidal River). The first permanent settlement was established in 1644 when people from Wethersfield came to Totokett, later renamed Branford ...
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Oct 27, 2024 · Brantford, city, seat (1852) of Brant county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Grand River. It originated as Brant’s Ford, named for Joseph Brant, the famous Mohawk chief who was granted the site in 1784 for the settlement of the Six Nations (see Iroquois Confederacy) after the American Revolution. White settlement dates from 1805.
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The Harrison House on Main Street in Branford, Connecticut was built in 1724 by Nathaniel Harrison 2nd (1692-1760) having received the land from his father Nathaniel 1st (1658-1727). Nathaniel 1st was the grandson of Richard Harrison who settled in Branford from New Haven in 1645. The two Nathaniels were active in town and colony affairs.
The settlement of Brant County began around 1793, in what is now Burford Township. The latest settled township was Onondaga, where first settlement began in 1836. In 1851 the County of Brant was established consisting of townships if Brantford, Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oakland, South Dumfries, and Burford. Brantford and Paris were the largest towns ...
Branford 1644 – 2019. Branford celebrated its 375th anniversary in 2019 and the Blackstone Library collaborated with the 375th Committee to provide fun and interesting facts about Branford every Friday throughout the year. Listed below you will find additional information and links about each of these places, people and facts.
Brantford generated controversy in 2010 when its city council expropriated and demolished 41 historic downtown buildings on the south side of its main street, Colborne Street. The buildings constituted one of the longest blocks of pre-Confederation architecture in Canada and included one of Ontario's first grocery stores and an early 1890s office of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada .
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In 1960 Gordon’s IGA at 67 Erie Avenue at Eagle Avenue becomes Gordon’s Red & White. The IGA Foodliner opened at the Pleasant Plaza, 164 Colborne St West. The Brant Motel (now the Grand Motel) opened at 780 Colborne Street, west of James Avenue. Brantford’s first Pizzeria, Little Caesars, operated from 37 King Street at Darling Street but ...
