Near the intersection of the Beaver Dam and Cross River are situated the fishing falls.

Golden's Bridge is a small hamlet (located on the banks of the Croton) in the northwest corner of this town. It contains a post office and several dwellings.

Vista is a pretty settlement in the southeast corner of Lewisborough. Here is a post office and several dwellings. This portion of the town is drained by the Tatomuck River, which eaipties into the Sound at Stamford.

The following extracts are taken from the town books: --

'• First Book of Records in Salem, April the 17th, 1747. ' At a town meeting in Salem, April 2, 1751 -- - ,.

Justice Gilbert, Moderator, . . ' ,

Jacob Wall, Supervisor,

Nathaniel Wyatt, Clerk,

David Webster, Constable, ' '-- '

Peter Benedict, Sessor, • , '

Benj. Rockwell, Sessor, - ' .

Nathan'l Wiatt, Sessor,

David Webster, Servuer, / ,' ;

Nathan'l Wiatt, Servuer, , * ' . ' _ .'

Jacob Walley, Servuer." ^ "At a town meeting in Salem, 10th day of January, 1763, Resolved that the welfare of the town was endangered by one Dr. Michael Abbott, of Ridgefield, in the colony of Connecticut, who had lately come into the town with sundry other persons, and had inoculated with the small pox one Gershom Sillick, by means of which the people are greatly exposed, and put in much damages of taking the small pox.'^ " -

^ County Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. B. 70. b Co. Rec Rel. Soc. Lib. A. 186.