Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Lisbon, Conn: From 1786-1900 In looking up the records of Lisbon's history, one finds very little help in any written historical descriptions thus far published. The explanation is to be found that she is so unimportant relatively with her larger sister towns. She has had a small, contracted terri tory, a sparse population, and a short period of existence since she was incorporated into a separate town in I 786. This necessarily makes but a brief sketch of history when all of it is collected for publication. Barker's Historical Collections, published in 1837, speaking of all the towns in Connecticut, describing their geography, soil, inhabitants, churches, and manufacturing interests, gives about as good a description of Lisbon as is found anywhere, but it is only a half-page record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.