Editing Deep River, Connecticut (section)

===Towns created from Saybrook Colony===
[[Image:PostcardDeepRiverCTKeyboardLake19061916.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Keyboard Lake, from an early postcard]]
Saybrook Colony, along the mouth of the [[Connecticut River]], was one of the early settlements in the area. Several towns broke off and incorporated separately over the course of time. The towns which were created from parts of Saybrook Colony are listed below.

*[[Lyme, Connecticut|Lyme]] (originally East Saybrook) in 1665
**[[East Lyme, Connecticut|East Lyme]] created from Lyme in 1839 (also partly from [[Waterford, Connecticut|Waterford]])
**[[Old Lyme, Connecticut|Old Lyme]] (originally South Lyme) created from Lyme in 1855
*[[Chester, Connecticut|Chester]] in 1836
*[[Westbrook, Connecticut|Westbrook]] in 1840
*[[Essex, Connecticut|Essex]] (originally Old Saybrook) in 1852
**[[Old Saybrook, Connecticut|Old Saybrook]] created from Essex in 1854