Historic Norfolk
Early Norfolk
The History of Norfolk, CT Settlement When the tract of land that would become the township of Norfolk was divided into fifty-three rights of four hundred acres each and offered for sale by the Colony of Connecticut in 1738, few buyers were interested. The Green Woods, a dense hemlock forest riddled with swamps and rock
Genealogy
Genealogy Genealogical Research Cemetery records, town records, and census records are good places to start when researching genealogy. Center Cemetery is the oldest of Norfolk’s burial grounds, established in 1757 on Old Colony Road. Here can be found the grave of James Mars, who in 1798 at the age of eight years was the last
