Mayberry Village

[1][2][3][4][5][6] The neighborhood was originally developed in the 1940s to house the influx of people who worked at Pratt and Whitney and other defense industries in Connecticut.

[7] It is roughly bounded by Burnside Avenue to the north and Wilbur Cross Highway the south.

Mayberry Village was built in 1941 on what was the Cannon family farm, to house the influx of people who worked at Pratt and Whitney and other defense industries in Connecticut.

The upper section of mostly multiple-unit construction was built first was the original neighborhood, bordered by Home Terrace, Highview, Edgewood and Arbutus streets, was called Laurel Park Heights,[8] named after the trolley park that was located where Sunset Hills was developed in the late 1950s.

The complex was named after Doctor Mayberry, a local physician who was killed while crossing railroad tracks under Burnham Street.