158858 Resource 125797 125888 125888 1171481099180 1171566530636 Controlled Hurlbutt Road in Gales Ferry, CT

The Hurlbutt Family played an important part in the growth of the Gales Ferry District

<p><img alt="Hurlbutt Road in Gales Ferry" hspace="0" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/280936086_d379d47c45_m.jpg" align="left" border="0" /></p><p>My RE/MAX Realty Group office is located on Hurlbutt Road in the Gales Ferry section of Ledyard.&nbsp; And yes, the street name has been the &quot;butt&quot; of a number of jokes.&nbsp; The Hurlbut (with one t) family is given prominent mention in the Ledyard Historic District Commissions Bicentennial Project written in 1976. It appears that the Hurlbuts played an important part in the growth of Gales Ferry Village.&nbsp;John Hurlbut was a wealthy man and when he died left&nbsp;a pretty impressive&nbsp;housing inventory including his own homestead&nbsp;plus two other&nbsp;farms, and a&nbsp;coopers shop.&nbsp; He also left&nbsp;an estate valued at 2376 pounds.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was his son Ralph who decided to add the &quot;t&quot; to the Hurlbutt name because he &quot;thought it finished it off&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;My office, built in 1929, &nbsp;sits on land the Hurlbutt's owned and was formerly the parsonage of the Gales Ferry Methodist Church where Ralph Hurbutt once preached.&nbsp;</p><p>I believe&nbsp;most of us with a Hurbutt street address would have preferred he not add that extra &quot;t&quot;.&nbsp; I'm not sure what Ralph&nbsp;was thinking.&nbsp;</p> 9 application/xml false Gales Ferry Ledyard Historic District Town of Ledyard Official website of the Town of Ledyard http://www.town.ledyard.ct.us/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 ldavis false true false false true 205810 false false true false false false true 125797 blog blogsite/CTRelocation/web