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Hydeville is a rural section of the
town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...
of Stafford,
Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capita ...
, located on Furnace Creek. Historically it was also known as Haydenville.


History

The Lafayette blast furnace, established in Hydeville in 1799 to process
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, is reputed to have been the first iron furnace in the state to cast stoves. It operated until 1840, when the local ore supply had been used up. In the 1890s, Hydeville was described as "consisting of a few houses about a woolen mill" with a population of about 130. Several of the houses in the village were tenement buildings containing several individual dwelling units. Wilson Woodworks, a producer of wood
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, was once located in Hydeville, but moved to the town of
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, about 30 miles to the southwest.


References

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