Founding year: the first Woodmont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Woodmont’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Woodmont is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Woodmont’s overall grade.
Connecticut towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Connecticut town has 73.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Woodmont’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (0% of Connecticut towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.2 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Woodmont’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Woodmont yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Woodmont is a borough of the City of Milford, in New Haven County, Connecticut. The population was 1,486 at the 2020 census. It was first created by Special Act of Connecticut General Assembly in 1893 as the Woodmont Improvement Association. In 1903 it became the Woodmont Association. It became a municipality in 1957 when the Connecticut General Assembly passed House Bill No. 2443 "An Act to change the Association status of Woodmont to Borough status". Woodmont is one of 9 Boroughs in Connecticut. The government of the borough works closely with the city of Milford to provide services such as road maintenance, snow plowing, street lighting, beach maintenance, and supplemental police service…
Its first post office opened in 1874. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,488 in 2010, 1,486 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
People over time
Woodmont, census by census
Peaked at 2,114 in 1970; 1,486 people lived here in 2020.
10 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Woodmont’s Wikipedia page.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Woodmont in 1930
Passages that mention Woodmont, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of New Haven County, Connecticut1930 · page 161Read the page →
Read the text
His house there occupied the present site of the public library and his outlying land included part of the village of Woodmont and all of Charles Island. We quote from Trowbridge’s paper, “The Ancient Maritime Interests of New Haven:” “Among the colonial merchants — Ensign Bryan of Milford sent thence his ships to England, the Azores, to Virginia and as far east as Nova Scotia. For years his credit stood so high that his notes of hand passed as current in Boston as bank notes do anywhere in our
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Woodmont, 1874 to 1970
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Woodmont post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Woodmont rank for history?
Woodmont is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Woodmont?
52% of Woodmont’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.2 points), against a typical 15% for a Connecticut town; the median home was built in 1938.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (3), Wikidata (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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