Editing Killingworth, Connecticut (section)

==History==
[[File:Congregational_Church_in_Killingworth,_CT.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Congregational Church along route 81]]

Killingworth was established from the area called Hammonasset, taken from the local [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[tribe]] of the same name. The area originally incorporated the area of the present town of [[Clinton, Connecticut|Clinton]], which was separated from Killingworth along ecclesiastical borders in 1838.<ref name="Killingworth Historical Society">[http://www.killingworthhistorical.org/History1.htm Killingworth Historical Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012221954/http://www.killingworthhistorical.org/History1.htm |date=October 12, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="en.wikipedia.org">[[:File:Killingworth ct historical town sign1.jpg|Town of Killingworth Historical Sign, 1981]]</ref>  Part of [[New London County, Connecticut|New London County]] prior to May 1785, Killingworth was then included in the newly formed [[Middlesex County, Connecticut|Middlesex County]], where it remains today.

The New England town received its name from [[Kenilworth]], [[England]], the previous home of one of the first settlers in [[New England]], [[Edward Griswold]].<ref name="en.wikipedia.org"/> Kenilworth's name resembled "Killingworth" during the [[United States#European colonization|colonial American period]], though over time the pronunciations and spellings of the names drifted toward the two distinct modern ones.<ref name="Killingworth Historical Society"/> A town and village in England called [[Killingworth]] and [[Killingworth Village]], in the county of [[Tyne and Wear]], do not appear to have any connection with Killingworth, Connecticut.

In the late 17th century, Killingworth became the birthplace of what would eventually become [[Yale University]].  The Rev. [[Abraham Pierson]], the college's first president, taught some of the first classes in his Killingworth home—which is actually in present-day [[Clinton, Connecticut]].  However, in 1701, the college's first official home was constructed in [[Old Saybrook, Connecticut|Old Saybrook]] on the peninsula known as Saybrook Point donated by Yale's first Treasurer Nathanial Lynde.  Eventually the school was moved to its present-day home in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.killingworthhistorical.org/History1.htm |title=History of Killingworth |access-date=September 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012221954/http://www.killingworthhistorical.org/History1.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2008 }}</ref>