Named for a suburb of London, the location of a palace under which several archbishops of Canterbury were buried. Among the grantees was Captain Stephen Hall, whose grandson Samuel Read Hall (b. 1795) developed plans resulting in the present American school system. Professor Hall was reputed to be the first teacher to use a blackboard.
Croydon is home to the 56-acre Rockybound Pond, where fisherman can find largemouth and smallmouth bass, pickerel, yellow perch, sunfish and horned pout.
