Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

The center of Woodbury is distinctive for its mile-long stretch of older buildings lining both sides of the road.

It is a modest, clapboard, Greek Revival temple, notable less for its architecture than for its dramatic location, situated atop a high cliff accessed by a long flight of steps (there is a modern road at the rear).

[6] The CDP covering the town center has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km2), all land.

The first, religious dissidents unhappy with the church in Stratford, was led by Woodbury's first minister, the Reverend Zachariah Walker.

The second, led by Deacon Samuel Sherman, had been given approval by the general court to purchase land from local Native Americans in order to establish a new settlement.

Together, fifteen families (about fifty people), arrived in ancient Woodbury, known as "Pomperaug Plantation", early in 1673.

The Fundamental Articles stated that expenses of establishing the settlement would be shared by its inhabitants, and that no one was to be given more than twenty-five or less than ten acres of land.

[10] Signers of the Fundamental Articles: The settlement was named Woodbury, which means "dwelling place in the woods", and was first recognized as a town in 1674.

Deacon and captain John Minor was the first leader of the community during Woodbury's early years.

The German composer Hanns Eisler, who had taken asylum in the United States after fleeing from the Nazi rule in Germany, spent three and a half months (from June 15 to September 30, 1941) in Woodbury as the guest of another German refugee, Joachim Schumacher, and his wife Sylvia.

Joachim taught classes in art history, musicology, philosophy, and other subjects at the Westover School in Middlebury.

[11] Joachim enticed Eisler to compose 20 songs on 16 US children's verses or nursery rhymes and four texts in the German language by Goethe, Eduard Mörike and Ignazio Silone.

The songs were composed for female voices and suitable for a school chorus.

None of the families and 4.6% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 8.9% of those over 64.

Woodbury is currently located in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, and is represented by Democrat Jahana Hayes.

Only four times, in 1884, the aforementioned 1912, 1992, and 1996 has the GOP candidate for president not received an absolute majority of the vote.

Prior to the GOP’s founding, Woodbury supported Whig presidential nominees Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Henry Clay, and John Quincy Adams in 1852, 1848, 1832, and 1828 respectively.