Ansonia, Derby and Shelton form one of the most important industrial communities in the state.
Across the Housatonic is the borough of Shelton (pop. 1900, 2837), which is closely related, socially and industrially, to Derby, the two having a joint board of trade.
Derby, Ansonia and Shelton form one of the most important manufacturing communities in the state; although their total population in 1900 (23, 448) was only 2.9% of the state's population, the product of their manufactories was 7.4% of the total manufactured product of Connecticut.
Gilbert Shelton keeps the good old boys railing and rapping against the square chinned straights that are trying to hinder the ultimate slackers.
They lived in Shelton Street in Wilnecote, then a small mining village on Watling Street near Tamworth.
