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The Westbrook Town Center Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Westbrook, Connecticut. Roughly linear in shape, the district extends along the Boston Post Road (United States Route 1), with its focal center at the junction with Essex Road (Connecticut Route 153). The area has been a center of civic activity since the early ...
Westbrook Center is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village and adjacent residential land in the town of Westbrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. It is in the southern part of the town, along U.S. Route 1 and bordered to the south by Long Island Sound .
Westbrook's public elementary school, the Daisy Ingraham Elementary School, was the recipient of a Blue Ribbon honor for excellence for 1998–1999. A new middle school, connected to the high school, Westbrook High School, opened in 2005. Oxford Academy, an all-boys boarding school, has been located in Westbrook since 1973.
The brickyards along the river were the major industry. However, residents who owned a car could live in North Haven and commute to New Haven for their jobs. Small real estate development began to grow up along the southern edge of town. Significant population growth occurred at the end of World War II. North Haven's population increased ...
In 1959, it was extended as a tail north through Westbrook to the former Route 144 (now a town road called Bushy Hill Road) in Deep River. In 1942 or 1943, its northern end was relocated and extended northward to Route 80. In 1962, it was extended to its current northern terminus at Route 148 and the portion south of US 1 became town roads.
Route 166 begins at an intersection with Route 153 in the eastern part of the town of Westbrook. It heads east, roughly paralleling I-95 on the north, into the town of Old Saybrook . Along the way, it passes by the Westbrook Block company just before crossing the town line.
The Westbrook to Centerbrook route was designated as a secondary state highway in the 1920s and was known as Highway 332. Route 153 was established as a renumbering of old Highway 332 in the 1932 state highway renumbering. When first created, the northern end of Route 153 ran along Westbrook Road like the old highway.
The Copper Beech Farm, formerly the Lauder Greenway Estate, is a 50-acre (20 ha) private property with a French Renaissance mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. For a time, it was the most expensive home in the history of the United States.