1807. A dam was built across the river. Saw mill erected and Grist mill at Gaylordsville.
Peter Gaylord built a store on the east side of the river about this time.
1809. Church organized in Bridgewater. Meeting-house begun to be built by lottery instituted 1807.
1810. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church organized in Bridgewater.
1812. A fever epidemic occurred that carried off by death fifty-eight persons in two and a half months.
1814. St. Peter’s Lodge No. 21, F. A. M. leased land of Eli Starr to build Lodge on.
1814. Baptists at Northville organized a Church known as the New Milford Baptist Church. Eleazer Beecher was licensed to preach the Gospel to them.
1816. Upon the petition of sundry inhabitants in the vicinity of what is called Gaylord’s Bridge praying a grant of money from the town to rebuild the bridge upon Ousatonic River at Gaylords Falls, it was put to vote that a sum of $400 be granted which was negative; another vote was then put for a sum of $300 which was also voted in the negative.
1818. The New Milford and Sherman Turnpike Company incorporated.
1819. Wm. Roberts settled in Gaylordsville, erected clothing works.