History of Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

Captain Oliver Filley built the house for his son, Jay Humphrey Filley, and Jay’s wife, Julia Newberry. Oliver’s father purchased the land on which the house still resides, leaving it to Oliver and Oliver’s mother upon his death in 1795. Oliver lived on the property when he married his wife, Annis Humphrey, in 1805.

During this period, Oliver ran a successful tinware shop...

Bloomfield, Connecticut
Hartford county. This was formerly a parish in Windsor, called Wintonbury. It derived its name from the circumstance of the parish being formed from Windsor, Farmington, and Simsbury; the name Win-ton-bury being a part of the name of each of those towns. It was incorporated into a town in 1835. The inhabitants enjoy a fine soil, and cultivate it with great industry, producing large crops of grass and grain, with an abundance of choice fruit. It lies about six miles N. from Hartford. Population, about 1,400.

Bloomfield, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, 7 miles N. W. from Hartford, intersected by Wood river. Population, 1412.

BLOOMFIELD.
BY MRS. ELISABETH G. WARNER.

BLOOMFIELD was incorporated in 1835, and consisted of Wintonbury Parish and a portion of Poquonnock Society in Windsor. In 1840 the town received an addition of a part of Simsbury known as Scotland Parish. As now constituted, it is bounded on the north and east by Windsor, on the south by Hartford, and on the west by Simsbury and Avon, and averages four miles in length and in breadth. On the east border a forest a mile aud a half broad extends the whole length of the township from north to south, and on the west is the range of hills called Talcott Mountain. Through this broad, gently undulating valley run three large brooks, which unite in the south part to form Woods River; and this, meeting another small river in the southwest part of Hartford, forms Park River, which flows through the city and empties into the Connecticut. These three Bloomfield streams are all of slow current, and overflow their banks several times a year, thus greatly ...

Bloomfield, a post-village of Hartford co., Conn., in Bloomfield township, on the Connecticut Western Railroad, 5 miles N.W. of Hartford. The township has a high school and 4 churches. Pop. of the township, 1473.