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Article: Demolition? reveals artifacts?
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- New Haven Register
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- March 14, 2009
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By Lauren Garrison Register Staff
DERBY -- Mayor Anthony Staffieri and members of the Derby
Historical Society took a journey back in time Friday afternoon as
they explored a 19th-century aqueduct that was unearthed when the
former Porch and Patio building was demolished recently.
The dark, musty tunnel the group entered has been inactive for
decades, but at one time water from the Naugatuck River gushed
through it, powering the factories around which modern Derby grew
up.
According to Robert Novak Jr., executive director of the Derby
Historical Society, a system of canals running from the Naugatuck
River to the Housatonic River was built in the early- to mid-1830s.
They were filled in by ...