'Turnback Tuesday' features Derby Turnpike

'Turnback Tuesday' this week features the Derby Turnpike. 

The Derby Turnpike Company was chartered to build a toll road from New Haven to Derby in 1798. 

The Derby Turnpike was the longest-lived of the state’s early toll roads and only stopped collecting tolls in 1895. 

This picture showed the Turnpike's clover leaf junction with the Wilbur Cross Parkway (Exit 57-58) which opened at the end of 1941. The Turnpike's modern name is Route 34.

*Thanks go to the Derby Public Library for sharing interesting local history each week!