West Crib Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. The Thimble Islands are an Archipelago of small Islands in Long Island Sound, in and near the harbor of Stony Creek Connecticut in the southeast Stony Creek is a shorefront section of Branford Connecticut, centered on a Harbor on Long Island Sound, in the southeast corner of the town Branford is a town located on Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, eight miles (13 km east of New Haven. It last sold in 1976 for $131,500 to party goods magnate John Svenningsen, whose widow, Christine Svenningsen, has since bought several more Thimbles. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The island shown in a 1909 postcard

References

• Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
• Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.