The Town of Bethany was incorporated by a resolution adopted
by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, passed in May
1832. It was split off from the Town of Woodbridge, and those records
prior to 1832 remain in the custody and keeping of the Town Clerk
of Woodbridge. The area of Bethany in 1832 was considerably greater
than at present. Portions of what constituted Bethany at that time
are now included as parts of the Towns of Naugatuck, Beacon Falls
and Woodbridge.
On July 26, 1949, a Special Act was passed dissolving Regional
High School District No. 2, which consisted of Cheshire, Prospect
and Bethany and which had been organized in 1943. With the exception
of this Act and two (2) Acts for the reimbursement for overpaid taxes
in 1867 and 1872, all of the remaining special acts concerning Bethany
involved its territorial boundaries and the location of its school
districts. The following is a complete index of the special acts adopted
setting forth the volumes and pages at which they can be found:
|
Special Act Volume No.
|
Volume
|
Page
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Connecticut Special Laws Index
|
I through XXIX
|
—
| |
|
Town incorporated
|
I
|
1132
| |
|
Beacon Falls School District incorporated
|
V
|
655
| |
|
Dissolution of Regional High School District No. 2
|
XXV
|
1101
| |
|
Divided into voting districts
|
VI
|
793
| |
|
Meeting of Bethany validated
|
I
|
1133
| |
|
Niumps School District divided into Gate and Center Districts
|
IX
|
416
| |
|
Part of Bethany annexed to:
| |||
|
Beacon Falls
|
VII
|
51
| |
|
Naugatuck
|
IV
|
1253
| |
|
Oxford
|
IV
|
1219
| |
|
Woodbridge
|
V
|
761
| |
|
Reimbursement for overpaid taxes
| |||
|
1867
|
--
|
303
| |
|
1872
|
--
|
35
| |
|
School society annexed part of Seventh District of Oxford
|
IV
|
1152
| |
|
Woodbridge annexed part of the First School District of Bethany
|
X
|
749
| |
