Cemetery – Located near Old Newgate Prison. Smallpox Cemetery – Located at the top of the hill off Tariffville Road. The cemetery is on top of the "Manitank Mt." between Turkey Hill and Hatchett Hill, the property is owned by Tilcon-Roncari. Viets Cemetery – Located Near Old Newgate Prison. This cemetery is in a clump of trees and bushes in a field in back of the farmhouse belonging to Jenny W. Kellogg. It is about a mile down the road leading from the prison towards 107-3. The plot is perhaps twenty feet square. There are about twenty stones in it. Not one of them is inscribed. The prisoners were taken down here from the prison and buried according to the story told around here. Old schoolhouses East Granby has six old schoolhouses that are no longer in use. Center District Schoolhouse Copper Hill Schoolhouse Falls Schoolhouse Hazelwood Schoolhouse North Schoolhouse South Schoolhouse Government and politics Notable people Solomon Flagg Alderman (1860–1928), Minnesota state senators and lawyer Walter Forward (1783–1852), lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury for President Tyler Jeff Simmons (born 1976), former IndyCar driver Walter Wick (born 1953), author of the I Spy find-it-in-the-picture book series Education Education in East Granby is through the East Granby Public School System, including East Granby High School, the smallest public high school in the state of Connecticut. The high school mascot is a crusader, and the middle school's is The Purple Wave. Both the high school's and the middle school's colors are purple and white. Average class size for students in kindergarten in the East Granby school system was 13.8, second grade 23.7, fifth grade 23, seventh grade 20.5, and high school 17.1. The students per computer ratios were: elementary 3.8, middle school 1.4, and secondary school 1.8. East Granby School students performed high on both the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) and SATs, where students' averages were higher than state averages in all grades (grade 4, 6, and 8 for CMT) and test subjects (Reading, Math, and Writing for both tests). In popular culture East Granby was noted in the book The Black Box, a record of airplane CVR recordings. East Granby was the site of the American Airlines Flight 1572 incident, which clipped the tops of trees in East Granby as it came in for a landing at Bradley International Airport. References External links Town of East Granby official website East