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Sleepy Eastbrook Holds Tight to Farming Roots
Charlie Yeo may not think so, but things do change from time to
time in Eastbrook.
Point in fact: The local gathering spot in town is no longer the
Greenwood Grange or the Eastbrook Baptist Church or the Molasses
Pond House. Each is where Eastbrook’s people went for social times
so many decades ago.
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Dickens Farm Is
Home to Eastbrook History
“Life on the farm” is more than a turn of phrase for Tim and Louise
Dickens. Because even longer than there has been an Eastbrook on
maps, the farm along Route 200 has belonged to Tim Dickens’ family.
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They Lived a Sweet Life on Sugar Hill
Longtime residents can recall that all of the areas in Eastbrook
had a more descriptive name of their own. Families lived on Sugar
Hill, at the Neck, at the Ridge and at the Mill, among other places.
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Fair Made for Fond Memories
Exactly when the Eastbrook Fair started, and when it ended, isn’t
clear anymore. The locals can’t remember.
But for the years it ran, certainly in the 1940s and 1950s, the
Eastbrook Fair was the biggest around. Using the fairgrounds next to
where the Greenwood Grange hall still stands, the fair ran for two
days in early September.
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| Written and photographed
by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at 667-2576. |
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Acreage: 23,447
Population, 2000: 370
Population, 1990: 289
Population below 19, 2000: 99
Median age: 37.8
School: Cave Hill Elementary School
Churches: Baptist (1)
Town meeting: Third Monday in March
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They
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 “We’re
really a bedroom community, more than anything.”
— Charles “Chibby” Yeo, First Selectman
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1800:
Original settlers—Robert Dyer, Samuel Bragdon and John E. Smith—arrive.
1820s:
More settlers arrive, predominantly from Massachusetts. Many purchase
land via land lotteries held by Massachusetts. Others receive acres for
service during wars.
1837:
Town incorporates after having been known as Plantation 15. Named for
its location on the East Brook branches of the Union River.
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