About Pine Hole

The earliest-known reference to Pine Hole occurs in 1730, although that reference implies that the area was known as Pine Hole long before that time.

The exact location is difficult to determine, since one source indicates that it is "a little east of Waterville", and yet another describes it as being in the northern and western part of Waterville.  One source states that Pine Hole is simply another word for Waterville.  Also described as being "bounded east on the common fence", in another source, implies that it was much further south within Waterbury. 

The "common fence" ran near the Mad River in parts of central and southern Waterbury, and, in the 1700s and 1800s was an important geographic marker for public, private, and municipal purposes.

​Pine Hole is a quaint farming village in the Town of Waterbury, just north of Jefferson Trotting Park, along the New York and New England Railroad, and just south of the town of Northbury (which lead to "the Wilderness").  This neighborhood was well-established by the year 1815, and included the Methodist Episcopal Church at that time.  The neighborhood eventually became part of what was later incorporated as the village "Waterville".

One of the first-known churches, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized at the residence of Widow David Wheeler at Pine Hole, and the residence of Timothy Ball in Bucks Hill.

Pine Hill became part of the larger Waterville section of Waterbury, and the term "Pine Hill" is rarely used.  At least one source equates Pine Hole, in whole, to the whole of the current-day Waterville section of Waterbury, at a time when Waterville itself was in fact not a part of Waterbury.  In fact, Waterbury itself was neither a city nor a town - it was merely a borough, probably of Farmington.  Pine Hole, especially once it became Waterville, was the most important district of the Borough of Waterbury.

Pine Hole News Archive

Waterville Sector
Pine Hole Neighborhood
Police investigate fatal crash into fence
Fox61; article; 2023.09.02

Did Anyone From Pine Hole Ever Become Famous?

We don't know.