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Happy 350th Birthday

 
 

Hall of Famer of the Week

JOHN CLEWES
CITY PLANNER
STREET DESIGNER
LANDSCAPER
HE
DESIGNED
BIRMINGHAM

Our Hall of Famer of the Week is John Clewes. Though we have no picture of him, his impact on the city is still pretty obvious to this very day. When Sheldon Smith was making the manufacturing village of Birmingham a reality in the 1830's, he hired English engineer John Clewes - some have the spelling as Cloues - to layout the roads in the new village that remain mostly intact to this day. The layout was very simple, streets running east and west in the area west of the Naugatuck River had numbers for names. First Street disappeared a few years ago as a result of redevelopment and the Rt. 34 work, and Second Street is better known as Main Street. The streets running north and south had names rather than numbers. Four of them were given women's names (Olivia, Elizabeth, Minerva and Caroline). Read more about the man who "designed" Derby here.

  Derby 350th official Facebook page

Some older stories:

Newest members of the Derby Hall of Fame
Time Capsule Excites, Then Disappoints Crowd
Watch the rededication ceremony for the historic grandfather clockat Derby Public Library
Historic Signage Project for Derby's 350th
Video of the 2025 Memrorial Day Parade
National Humane Fountains like Derby's found all over the United States.
Click here to watch Governor Lamont and others at Bridge Ceremony
Light show on the Derby-Shelton Bridge
Members to the Derby Hall of Fame for 2024
2024 Memorial Day Parade video
Eight Selected for Derby Athletic Hall of Fame

Check on Derby-Shelton Bridge Progress
Derby Teacher of the Year
DataHaven releases Derby Equity Profile
Derby Census Data - Now Available
Second Congregational Church  Gets a New Steeple
Derby Land Records Now Available Online
GIS Mapping of Derby now includes Property Listing Reports

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Valley Heritage Driving Tour - begins & ends in Derby
 

The City of Derby has developed an official and informative City of Derby website which will be paid for and maintained by the City. You can visit the site at http://www.derbyct.gov/.

This current website was developed back in 1995 as part of the Electronic Valley project which helped launch the Internet age for almost all of the Valley towns. Derby becomes the last of the Valley communities to launch sites operated by the city governments. You can read more about that history here.

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The Electronic Valley Entire Web