History of Simsbury, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to Simsbury, Connecticut, USA

• 1670 - (Simsbury, CT) - This area, known to early settlers as the Windsor plantation at Massacoe, was incorporated as Simsbury in 1670.
  
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• 1705 - copper was discovered in Simsbury. Later, the copper mine became the infamous New-Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War.
  
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• 1728 - Simsbury became home to the nation’s first steel-making venture in 1728.
  
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• 1737 - Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America
  
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• 1819 - Simsbury
  Simsbury a post town, is situated twelve miles northwest from Hartford. Simsbury was settled in 1870; the first settlers being from Windsor, of which it then formed a part. About six years after the settlement, the inhabitants, consisting of about forty families, were so alarmed at the hostility of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1825 - Nation's first carpet factory started in Simsbury in 1825
  
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• 1836 - Nation's first company manufacturing safety fuses for use in blasting operations began in Simsbury.
  
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• 1839 - Simsbury
  Simsbury, Connecticut
  Hartford county. The territory of this town was formerly a part of Windsor: its Indian name was Massacoe, and was incorporated in 1670. The surface of the town is greatly diversified by hills and valleys; a range of mountains pass through the town, and there is some level and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Simsbury
  Simsbury, a post-village in Hartford co., Connecticut, on the New Haven Northampton, or Canal railroad, 11 miles N. W. from Hartford. Population of the township, 2737.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1895 - Simsbury
  Simsbury, sims’ber-e, a post-village in Simsbury township, Hartford co., Conn., on Farmington River, and on the Connecticut Western Railroad, at its junction with the New Haven & Northampton Railroad, 42 miles N. of New Haven. It has 2 churches and a fuse-factory. The township contains a larger vill...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1900 - SIMSBURY’S DISASTROUS FIRE
  Principal Buildings of the Village Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze.
  
  LOSS ESTIMATED AT FULLY $25,000
  
  Flames Originated in Third Story of Hotel Due to a Defective Chimney—Guests Escaped, but Fire Spread Despite Firemen’s Best Efforts to Control It.
  
  Simsbury, Conn., June 20 — The most disastr...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1906
  Simsbury, a post-village in Simsbury township (town), Hartford co., Conn. on the Farmington River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Central New England Rs., 42 miles N. of New Haven. It has a fuse-factory. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2094.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
  
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  Westminster School
  
  "Westminster School is a small, private, highly selective boarding and day school located in Simsbury, Connecticut. Westminster School was founded by William Lee Cushing in 1888 as a boys' school in Dobbs Ferry, New York...
  
  In 1900, as enrollment increased, Cushing moved the school to its current location in Simsbury, Connecticut. The land had been donated through a trustee of the school, Arthur M. Dodge, a member of an old Hartford family. Williams Hill, the new site,... Read MORE...
  
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  Methodist Church, Simsbury, Conn.
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  Simsbury Street, Looking North.
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  Mrs. Woods Green House and Flower Garden.
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