History of Simsbury, Connecticut, USA

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 the Indians, that they buried their effects, and returned to Windsor. The settlement being abandoned, the Indians burned the houses which had been erected, and destroyed almost every vestige of improvement, which distinguished the infant settlement from the wilderness which surrounded it; that, when the settlers returned, they could not find the spot where they deposited their goods...

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 good land within its limits on Farmington river. Population, 1830, 2,221.

Tariffville, a flourishing village, is situated at the northeastern extremity of this town, on the west bank of the Farmington river, which at this place passes south, at the base of a range of mountains, which divides this part of the State from the great valley of Connecticut river. This place is a carpet manufacturing village, owned principally by a company called the "New England Carpet Company;" they employ 175 hands, and manufacture yearly about 132,000 yards of carpeting. This flourishing village is between three and four miles south of Simsbury mines, in Granby, near the New Haven and Northampton canal, and ...