Editing Salisbury, Connecticut (section)

==History==
Salisbury was established and incorporated in 1741,<ref name="The Town of Salisbury Connecticut">{{cite web|url=http://salisburyct.us/|title=The Town of Salisbury Connecticut|publisher= The Town of Salisbury Connecticut |access-date= November 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/Connecticut/documents/CT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm#NEW%20HAVEN Newberry Library -- Connecticut Atlas of Historical County Boundaries] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110043227/http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/Connecticut/documents/CT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |date=November 10, 2013 }}</ref> and contains several historic homes, though some were replaced by larger modern structures in the late 20th century. Salisbury was named for [[Salisbury]], a city in [[England]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=9263| title= Profile for Salisbury Connecticut|publisher= ePodunk  |access-date= November 18, 2012}}</ref> Historian Ed Kirby relates that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill (later Ore Hill) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley. From before the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]], through the [[Federal Period]] of the nation, and until ''circa'' 1920, Salisbury was the seat of an important [[History of the iron and steel industry in the United States|iron industry]].<ref>Ed Kirby, ''Echoes of Iron in Connecticut's Northwest Corner'', Sharon Historical Society, 1998 p.&nbsp;6</ref>

[[File:Salisbury, CT - Sept. 18, 1917.jpg|thumb|left|61 East Main Street, Salisbury, CT was shown on a postcard mailed on September 18, 1917.]]
Additional iron mines were opened, mostly in the western end of the town, although historian Diana Muir dismisses them as "scarcely big enough to notice," with the further disadvantage of not being near a river large enough to ship iron to market at a reasonable cost. The solution, according to Muir, was to pour labor into the iron, working it into a quality of [[wrought iron]] so high that it could be used even for [[gun barrel]]s. This fetched a high price and made Salisbury iron the celebrated choice of Connecticut's early nineteenth-century arms industry<ref>Diana Muir, ''Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England'', University of New England Press, 2002, p.&nbsp;126.</ref> as well as the preeminent source of cast-iron railroad car wheels until they were superseded by steel wheels. Peter P. Everts, an agent of the mid-19th-century mines, however, stated the quality of Salisbury iron varied.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjdJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA97 |title=Scientific American |website=books.google.com |year= 1866|access-date=July 31, 2010}}</ref> The iron industry in Salisbury became inactive following [[World War I]], a plan to revive it during [[World War II]] was never implemented, and the mines remain under water.<ref>''Hartford Courant'', January 25, 1942</ref>

[[Scoville Library]] in Salisbury was the first in the United States open to the public free of charge.<ref>{{cite web | title = History | publisher = Scoville Memorial Library | url = http://www.scovillelibrary.org/aboutus.htm#history | access-date = October 1, 2013}}</ref> Salisbury is also home to the oldest [[Methodist]] church in New England, the Lakeville Methodist Church, constructed in 1789.<ref>{{cite web | title = Lakeville United Methodist Church | publisher = Lakeville United Methodist Church | url = http://lakevilleumcct.org/ | access-date = October 1, 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Lakevilleumc.jpg|thumb|Lakeville United Methodist Church]]