Lancelot Phelps (1784–1866), US Congressman and father to James Phelps was a longtime resident.
Horace White (1834–1916), co-owner and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune
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Due to the inability of its original grantees to settle the remote area, however, it was regranted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed it Colebrook Town after Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company's chairman of the board.
Camp Jewell YMCA, located in Colebrook, Connecticut, is a year-round outdoor center offering a wide range of programs for people of all ages.
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In 1902 it moved to Swanzey, New Hampshire, and then relocated to Colebrook in 1955, where it sits today on Triangle Lake in the shadow of Sunrise Mountain in the foothills of the Berkshires.
He has edited many books by fellow poets, including Ken Babstock, George Elliot Clarke, Tim Lilburn, Barbara Colebrook Peace, and Michael Redhill.
Without in any way approving such a policy, Lois acknowledges that she had a happy childhood there, and later at the Colebrook home at Eden Hills.
Social eyebrows were raised when Crosdill married Elizabeth, née Thresher, the wealthy widow of Robert Colebrook, (brother of Sir George Colebrooke), on 31 May 1785 at St. Marylebone Church, London.
In 1944 Colebrook Home moved to Eden Hills in the south of Adelaide due to chronic water shortages, enabling her to attend Unley High School, a local public school, and obtain her Intermediate Certificate.
Former Australian of the year and AC, CBE, Lowitja O'Donoghue also spent a huge portion of her childhood at the Aboriginal mission in Quorn, Colebrook Children's Home.
He was the son of Sir Arthur Brooke, 2nd Baronet, an Ulster aristocrats from County Fermanagh in the north of Ireland and succeeded to his title and the Colebrook estate in 1854.
WOXX, a planned radio station (97.1 FM) licensed to Colebrook, New Hampshire, United States, which held the call sign WUKV from 2008 to 2011