History
- Short Beach was occupied by the Quinnipiac and possibly the Paugussett tribes in the 17th century but this information is still disputed.
- The modern day Short Beach was founded with Branford in 1644 by British colonists.
- 1920s Short Beach becomes a summer town rivaling many of Rhode Island's beach towns in popularity.
- From 1891 until she died in 1930, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox lived on the Short Beach coast overlooking Granite Bay.
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