History of Windsor, Connecticut, USA

Early Settlers of Connecticut
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Windsor, Ct.

Hartford co. This most ancient town in Connecticut is situated on the west side of Connecticut river, 6 miles N. from Hartford. Population, 1830, 3,220. The surface of the town is generally level, having some extensive plains. The soil is various, and free from stone : some of it is light, but a large proportion of it is fertile, containing extensive tracts of rich meadow.

Farmington river passes through the town, and meeting the Connecticut, gives the town a good hydraulic power.

There are in Windsor 4 paper mills, 2 manufactories of cotton batting, and factories of satinet, Kentucky jean, wire, &c. The business in these manufacturing establishments is very considerable. At a place called Pine Meadow, at the commencement of the locks on the Enfield canal, a variety of ship and other timber is prepared for market. Pine Meadow is opposite to Warehouse Point, in East Windsor.

The centre village in Windsor is pleasantly extended on the banks of the...

Windsor, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, bounded on the E. by the Connecticut river, and intersected by the Farmington river, 6 miles N. from Hartford. The first English settlement in the state was made here in 1633, by Captain William Holmes and others, who came from the Ply mouth colony in Massachusetts. The town ship contains three handsome and thriving villages, viz. Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Poquannock. Almost all the inhabitants of that portion of the township which was first settled reside in Windsor village, situated on the right bank of the Connecticut, and on the New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield rail road. It is built principally on a single street upwards of 2 miles in length, parallel with the river, and beautifully shaded. Windsor has been the birth-place of several eminent men, among whom may be mentioned Roger Wolcott, governor of Connecticut, and Oliver Ellsworth, for nearly four years chief- justice of the supreme court of the United States....

Pooquonoc, or Pequannock, a post-village of Hartford county, Connecticut, on the N. side of Farmington river, about 12 miles N. by E. from Hartford. It contains 2 cotton mills; also a paper mill, said to be the largest in New England.

Hartford, Conn., Sunday, July 18.
A fire broke out in the barn of the Windsor Hotel, in Windsor, owned by MESSRS. GRISWOLD & GILLETTE, about 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, which soon spread to the hotel. A steam fire engine was sent up by railroad from this city, but before the flames could be checked the hotel, the barn and three sheds, a barn near owned by CAKPEN BROTHERS, a store belonging to the estate of JAMES LOOMIS, and occupied for a post office and as a variety store by C. P. ELLSWORTH were consumed. In the hotel barn a horse was burned to death. The loss to the hotel proprietors is estimated at $18,000; insured $9,000 in Hartford and New York offices. MR. ELLSWORTH'S loss in goods in $2,000; insured in the AEtna and Connecticut offices of Hartford, and in the Providence and Springfield Fire and Marine. The loss to the owners of the stone[sic] building and to CAKPEN BROTHERS is from $5,000 to $8,000.

David Osborne, of Windsor Ct., has taken the Hartford Courant for 79 years.

Mrs. Stiles, of Windsor, Conn., is under arrest fro sending poisoned confectionery to her sister, Mrs. E. R. Pitkin, of South Windsor, a few weeks ago. Investigation is said to prove that she was instigated by jealousy of Mrs. Pitkin, who captured Mr. Pitkin thirty years ago when she wanted him herself, and that she has nursed her wrath ever since.