In south-central Kansas, Derby is an outlying suburb of Wichita, with a population swelled by the McConnell Air Force Base, which sits to the north of the city. Until the base was founded in the 1950s Derby was a sleepy agricultural community of no more than a few hundred. Today the economy is supercharged by …
The city of Derby, at the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers, once covered a vast area comprising the now separate towns of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Seymour and Oxford. Nowadays at just 5.3 densely populated square miles, Derby is officially the smallest city in Connecticut. In the 19th century this was a manufacturing hotbed …
The city of Derby was a market town in the 18th century, but grew sharply in the Industrial Revolution through its cotton and silk spinning trade. Derby was one of the first places in England where this great upsurge in production took hold, and the impressive 18th-century mills on the banks of the River Derwent …