1771, Fishing for shad

Men in a long rowboat are drawing a net across the inlet, to enclose a school of shad. Artist: James Fuller Queen, 1855. Library of Congress: 40743.
Men in a long rowboat are drawing a net across the inlet, to enclose a school of shad. Artist: James Fuller Queen, 1855. Library of Congress: 40743.

“They put the fishnet into the river, but they catched no shad.”—David Hickok, South Britain, Connecticut, April 1771.

Shad, a fish in the herring family, was prevalent in early Farmington and the Great River, now known as the Housatonic River, Southbury’s southwestern border.

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