Best Web Design in Shelton, CT (2026)

Web Design for Shelton, Connecticut

Shelton is a Housatonic River city in Fairfield County that harnessed dam-driven waterpower to make everything 'from pins to pianos' in its 19th-century heyday. Today it pairs that industrial past with corporate office parks off Route 8 and a genuinely offbeat claim to fame: every Wiffle Ball ever made comes from Shelton. Rolling farm land on its edges, anchored by the 160-year-old Jones Family Farms, keeps a rural character alive within commuting distance of New York.

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About Shelton

Also known as. Home of the Wiffle Ball. formerly Huntington.

History. Settled by the English in 1639 as part of Stratford. Split from Stratford in 1789 and originally named Huntington after Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The manufacturing village was renamed Shelton in the 1860s-1880s for industrialist Edward N. Shelton, who promoted the Ousatonic (Housatonic) dam project. Incorporated as a city in 1915, then consolidated with the town of Huntington in 1919 to form present-day Shelton. By 1900 it was an industrial town of about 5,600 people making tacks, pins, textiles, and pianos. A 1975 arson fire destroyed the Sponge Rubber Products plant on Canal Street, one of the largest arson fires in U.S. history, marking the decline of Shelton's factory era.

Local economy. Grew on abundant Housatonic River waterpower after the 1870 dam and canal, producing pins, tacks, textiles, and pianos. Hubbell Incorporated, an electrical products maker, is headquartered in Shelton. BIC Corporation runs major U.S. operations in Shelton. Pitney Bowes and PerkinElmer have maintained large Shelton facilities. Sikorsky operates an overhaul and repair facility in the city. Completion of Route 8 spurred over two million square feet of corporate office space, much of it built by the R.D. Scinto company, drawing firms priced out of Stamford and Greenwich.

Culture and community. Jones Family Farms, worked by the same family for over 160 years, is a cut-your-own Christmas tree destination with a farm winery and tasting room. Indian Well State Park offers a Housatonic River boat launch and swimming. Boothe Memorial Park preserves an eccentric collection of historic buildings on one of America's oldest homesteads. The Paugussett 'Blue Blazed' trail and more than 15 miles of hiking paths thread the city's preserved open space. Notable figures tied to Shelton include Commodore Isaac Hull, who commanded USS Constitution, and former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky. Riverwalk Park, a 10-acre green space, was built on the former Sponge Rubber plant site along the river.

What makes Shelton distinct. Every Wiffle Ball ever made has been produced in Shelton; The Wiffle Ball, Inc. has stayed family-run on Bridgeport Avenue and never outsourced overseas. Shelton-grown trees were chosen as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in both 2007 and 2013. The 1975 Sponge Rubber plant blaze became a landmark arson-fraud case; the company president was acquitted criminally but found liable in a 1988 civil verdict. Mayor Mark Lauretti has led the city since 1991, one of the longest mayoral tenures in Connecticut.

Shelton Landmarks and Local Life

• Indian Well State Park on the Housatonic River.
• Boothe Memorial Park and its historic homestead buildings.
• Jones Family Farms and Winery on Walnut Tree Hill Road.
• Plumb Memorial Library - listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• Huntington Center Historic District - the old town green area
• The Housatonic (Shelton/Derby) dam that originally powered the mills.