Editing Roxbury, Connecticut (section)

==History==

[[File:PostcardRoxburyCTDistantView19011907.jpg|thumb|left|Roxbury Station, {{circa|1905}}]]
Roxbury, whose Native name was ''Shepaug'', a [[Mahican]] word signifying "rocky water", was settled about 1713 as a [[parish]] of [[Woodbury, Connecticut|Woodbury]],<ref>[https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Register-Manual/Section-VII/Connecticut-Towns-in-the-Order-of-their-Establishment Connecticut Towns in the Order of their Establishment]. Connecticut Secretary of State. Accessed November 17, 2023.</ref> which meant that the parish rate, a household-based tax, supported the local Roxbury puritan church rather than the Woodbury church.<ref>{{cite book|author=Wesley W. Horton|title=The Connecticut State Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNdBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=10|isbn=9780199890743}}</ref> About a decade after the end of the [[American Revolution]], Roxbury incorporated as a town in October 1796. Roxbury is either descriptively named, or the name is a transfer from [[Roxbury, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA334 |year=1903 |publisher=Connecticut Magazine Company|page=334}}</ref>

Mine Hill and its minerals have been associated with Roxbury since the middle of the 18th century. A silver mine was opened here and was later found to contain [[spathic iron]], specially adapted to steel making, and a small [[smelting]] furnace was built. The abundance of [[granite]] found in many of Mine Hill's quarries provided the building material for the ore roaster and blast furnace, as well as for such world wonders as the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] and [[Grand Central Terminal]] in New York City.