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The Town of Lisbon, incorporated in 1786, offers visitors the opportunity to experience the uniqueness of the region’s history. The first railroad tunnel in America (circa 1837) is located here. The Bishop House, a museum of local and regional history, sits along Scenic Highway Route 169.
Lisbon is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, 7.3 miles (11.7 km) by road northeast of Norwich. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 4,195 at the 2020 census. [2] The town center is also known as the village of Newent.
Taft Tunnel completed in 1837, Lisbon – Linda Orlomoski. Named after Portugal’s capital city, the New London County town of Lisbon sits between the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers in a National Heritage Corridor popularly known as The Last Green Valley.
Reviewing Lisbon for its hundred years' existence as a town, is not so much a task of searching its town records for its history; as to take up its ecclesiastical parishes and give them a fair view of their important influences upon the inhabitants of the said town.
The Norwich and Worcester Railroad built the first railroad tunnel in Connecticut, and one of the first in the nation, in the town of Lisbon in the 1830s. Read
The history of Lisbon, Connecticut, is deeply intertwined with the larger narrative of New England. Originally settled by Europeans in the 17th century, this area was part of the vast wilderness that characterized early colonial America.
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