History of Tolland, Massachusetts, USA

Tolland, Massachusetts
Hampden county. Tolland is situated on the border of Litchfield county, Connecticut, and is watered by the upper branch of Farmington river. The surface is elevated, but the lands are finely adapted for grazing.

There are manufactures in the town of shovels, spades, forks, hoes, and wooden ware; and here is a large tannery, but the inhabitants are chiefly farmers.

Tolland was incorporated in 1810. Population, 1830, 570. It lies 110 miles W.S.W. from Boston and 20 W. from Springfield.

This town was taken from Granville, and from Sandisfield, which is now in Berkshire county.

Tolland is watered by the sources of Farmington River.

The land is elevated, and adapted to grazing. Butter and cheese are the chief products, and some agricultural implements are the only manufactures of importance.

Distance from Springfield, 20 miles; from Boston, 110.

Tolland, a post-township in Hampden co., Massachusetts, 112 miles W. S. W. from Boston. Population, 594.

Tolland forms the southwest extremity of Hampden County, and is bounded on the north by Otis and Blandford, on the east by Granville, by Sandisfield on the west, and by Colebrook and Hartland, in Connecticut, on the south. Its assessed area is 18,186 acres; and there are 5,614 acres of beech, birch and maple. The whole town is on elevated land, and has few hills of much altitude. In the north is Messenger Pond; in the south, Cranberry; and north of Tolland Centre (the village and post-office) is the larger Noyes Pond, the source of Hubbard's River, which with its affluents drains the eastern section of the town. The rock is of granitic appearance, and the soil is clayey.

The product of the 112 farms in 1885 was valued at $61,752. Maple sugar was made to amount of 49,530 pounds; and of maple molasses, 564 gallons; valued altogether at $4,482. There were two saw mills and a wood-turning mill, employing about 25 men. Some leather and metallic goods were made also. The value of the...

Tolland, a post-hamlet in Tolland township, Hampden co., Mass., 27 miles W. of Springfield. It has a church. Pop. of the township, 452.

Tolland, a post-township (town) of Hampden co., Mass., 27 miles W. of Springfield. Pop. in 1900, 275.