History of Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA

Rocky Hill, a post-township in Hartford co., Connecticut, on the W. side of the Connecticut river, 7 miles S. from Hartford. Population, 1042.

BY SHERMAN W. ADAMS.

This township was incorporated in May, 1843, at which time its boundary-lines were defined substantially as follows: Begining at the Connecticut River; thence extending due west to a button-ball tree in the fence on the east side of the highway about two rods north of Goffe's Bridge; thence to the Four Corners, so called (where the road from Griswoldville to Rocky Hill crosses the old road from Berlin to Hartford), intersecting the northeast angle; thence along the east side of said old road to the hang-dog road, so called, on which [Amos] Benson resides; thence, westerly, parallel with two-rod highway, to twenty-rod highway, to a point three degrees north of east of the monument, in the northeast corner of Berlin; thence, westerly, to said monument; all the Wethersfield territory south and east of this line. As thus laid out, the new township was bounded north by Wethersfield (now partly by Newington), east by the river, south by Middletown (now Cromwell),...

Rocky Hill, a post-village and township of Hartford co., Conn., on the W. bank of the Connecticut River, and on the Connecticut Valley Railroad, 74 miles S. of Hartford. It commands a beautiful view of the river. Pop, of the township in 1890, 1069.

Rockyhill, a post-village and township (town) of Hartford co., Conn., on the W. bank of the Connecticut River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 7 1/ 2 miles S. of Hartford. Pop of the town in 1900, 1026.