Valley Heritage Driving Tour

Welcome to Ansonia

Enjoy its various points of interest. The city is a special place with a unique historic background. Ansonia, today, is transformed beyond recognition from the early settlement in this place by Edward Wooster, in 1654, when it became a part of Derby.

Anson G. Phelps, looking for a factory site founded a place of sandy plains, hills and meadows and created the village in 1844. Three more stages were struggled through - gaining borough status by petition in 1864, its incorporation as a town in 1889, and chartered as Connecticut's 168th city in 1893. Ansonia is a place that is constantly renewing itself to keep in step with the changing world.

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