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Shelton, CT - History
We would like to provide the residents of Shelton a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Shelton Home page. The Shelton Home page provides as much information as possible on Shelton. Knowing Shelton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Shelton’s Home page, you will also find Shelton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Shelton has a population of 41162. 47.6% of Shelton’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.4 are female. 54.7% of Shelton is married and 79.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $344,546, and the average rent is $1,375. Household median income in Shelton is $98,873, and the individual median income is $46,640. Shelton’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.2%), Hispanic(8.6%), Asian(4.8%), Multiple(3.7%), Black(2.7%), Other(1.2%), Pacific(0.2%), Native(0.1%).
Shelton was officially incorporated in 1890. The city was named after David Shelton, a delegate to the territorial legislature. The land was previously called "Cota" and was inhabited and managed by the Squaxin Island Tribe, or "People of the Waters", who had inhabited the land for centuries before contact with white settlers.
The land was ceded, along with 4,000 sq. miles of Indigenous land, on December 26, 1854, with the passage of the Treaty of Medicine Creek. After the passage of the treaty, David Shelton and his wife, Frances Shelton, each took a claim of land enabled by the Donation Land Claim Act totaling 640 acres in what would eventually be incorporated as Shelton.Shelton was once served by a small fleet of steamboats which was part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.
These boats included the Old Settler, Irene, Willie, City of Shelton, Marian, Clara Brown, and S.G. Simpson. The economy was built around logging, farming, dairying and ranching as well as oyster cultivation. The Simpson Timber Company mill on Puget Sound's Oakland Bay dominated the landscape of the downtown area; the mill was sold to Sierra Pacific Industries in 2015, who are currently building a new mill.
Shelton also identifies itself as the "Christmas Tree Capital". Shelton was incorporated in the 1890s. It was the last city in Washington to use a mayor/commission form of government. In November 2017, the voters of Shelton adopted a manager/council form of municipal governance.
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