Bozrah

Bozrah began as part of the Town of Norwich's "nine miles square," acquired from the sachems of the Mohegan Indians in June 1659, and a portion of it later became known as the New Concord Society. In the early 1700s, this wild and rugged land west-northwest of the Norwich Town Plot was opened to additional settlers, and despite the challenges it developed rapidly. New Concord Society was organized and approved by the General Assembly in 1737, and a site for a meetinghouse was accepted in 1739 and soon built. In 1786, by action of the General Assembly, the members of New Concord Society were incorporated as the distinct Town of Bozrah, becoming the eighty-sixth town in Connecticut; the name, believed to be unique in the country, is of Hebrew origin meaning an enclosure or sheepfold.

Bozrah, Connecticut · United States