Article: Demolition? reveals artifacts?

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 ...

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