Woodbury, Connecticut | ||
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Town | ||
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Location in Litchfield County, Connecticut |
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Coordinates: 41°33′43″N 73°12′34″W / 41.56194°N 73.20944°WCoordinates: 41°33′43″N 73°12′34″W / 41.56194°N 73.20944°W | ||
Country | United States | |
State | Connecticut | |
NECTA | None | |
Region | Central Naugatuck Valley | |
Named | 1673 | |
Government | ||
• Type | Selectman-town meeting | |
• First selectman | William Butterly (I) | |
• Selectman | Martin Overton (D) | |
• Selectman | Barbara Perkinson (R) | |
Area | ||
• Total | 36.7 sq mi (95.1 km2) | |
• Land | 36.5 sq mi (94.4 km2) | |
• Water | 0.3 sq mi (0.7 km2) | |
Elevation | 243 ft (74 m) | |
Population (2010) | ||
• Total | 9,975 | |
• Density | 267/sq mi (103/km2) | |
Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) | |
• Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) | |
ZIP code | 06798 | |
Area code(s) | 203 | |
FIPS code | 09-87910 | |
GNIS feature ID | 0213540 | |
Website | http://www.woodburyct.org/ |
Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,975 at the 2010 census. The town center is also designated by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). Woodbury was founded in 1673.
The center of Woodbury is distinctive because, unlike many New England towns, it is not nucleated. In Woodbury, the older buildings are arrayed in linear fashion along both sides of a road that stretches for over a mile. The public buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church (1818), the Old Town Hall (1846), the United Methodist Church, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1785), and the North Congregational Church (1816).
The most notable of the public buildings is the Masonic Temple (1839). It is a modest, clapboard, Greek Revival temple, notable less for its architecture than for its dramatic location, situated atop a high cliff accessed by a long flight of steps (there is a modern road at the rear). It is visible from a distance and is especially dramatic at night, when it is illuminated by spotlights. The Woodbury Temple echoes the many temples of the Greek world that were perched at the edge of high places from which they could be seen from miles around and from far out at sea.
Originally, the many historic houses on the street were residential. In the late twentieth century they were occupied by a series of antique shops.
Woodbury is one of the two towns in Litchfield County, along with Bethlehem, served by the area code 203/area code 475 overlay.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.7 square miles (95 km2), of which 36.5 square miles (95 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of (0.74%) is water. The CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.
Woodbury lies in the Pomperaug River Valley, a tributary of the Housatonic River. The Pomperaug River is formed in Woodbury by the confluence of the Nonnewaug River and the Weekeepeemee River.