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According to urban legend, the Wolf Den parcel in Mashamoquet Brook State Park in Pomfret is the site where Israel Putnam killed the last wolf in Connecticut.
Pomfret includes several villages, neighborhoods, or sections:
Abington
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Pomfret Center
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- 1713 - (Pomfret, CT) - Purchased from area natives in 1686 and incorporated in 1713, Pomfret was named for Pontefract in Yorkshire, England.
Agriculture and various mills along the town’s plentiful waterways supported the settlers’ earliest enterprises.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ pomfret/ - 1819 - Pomfret
Pomfret, a post township, is situated in the central section of the county, 40 miles northeast from Hartford, and 30 east from Providence; bounded on ...Read MORE... - 1854 - Pomfret
Pomfret, a post-village of Windham co., Connecticut, with a station on the Norwich and Worcester railroad, 33 miles N. by E. from Norwich. The townshi...Read MORE... - 1895 - Pomfret
Pom'fret, a post-village in Pomfret township, Windham co., Conn., 4 miles S.W. of Putnam, about 26 miles N. by E. of Norwich, and 20 miles N.E. of Wil...Read MORE... 
The Meadows
"Thomas S. Harrison's, The Meadows, which stands near the Pomfret Stock-Farm, of which he is the owner, is a large and dignified old colonial mansion, so successfully re-arranged and enlarged as to command metropolitan luxury. Mr.... Read MORE...
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Pomfret, a post-village in Pomfret township (town), Windham co., Conn., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 25 miles N. by E. of Norwich. The ...Read MORE... 
Christ Episcopal Church, Pomfret, Conn.
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Covell's Mill, Abington, Conn.
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Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn.
"Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates...
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Pomfret, Connecticut, USA
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 - The Meadows
"Thomas S. Harrison's, The Meadows, which stands near the Pomfret Stock-Farm, of which he is the owner, is a large and dignified old colonial mansion, so successfully re-arranged and enlarged as to command metropolitan luxury. Mr. Harrison is a resident of Philadelphia, but of recent years has spent a considerable portion of his time each year at his country home, in superintending the cultivation of his extensive property and adding to the local improvements of Pomfret."
The Connecticut Quarterly, Volume 2
Connecticut Quarterly Company, 1896)
The Meadows
"Thomas S. Harrison's, The Meadows, which stands near the Pomfret Stock-Farm, of which he is the owner, is a large and dignified old colonial mansion, so successfully re-arranged and enlarged as to command metropolitan luxury. Mr.... Read MORE...
Pomfret, Connecticut, USA
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 - Christ Episcopal Church, Pomfret, Conn.)
Christ Episcopal Church, Pomfret, Conn.
Pomfret, Connecticut, USA
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 - Covell's Mill, Abington, Conn.)
Covell's Mill, Abington, Conn.
Pomfret, Connecticut, USA
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 - Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn.
"Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates...
Opened October 3, 1894 by Founder William E. Peck and his wife Harriet Jones Peck, who designed the school's coat of arms, Pomfret's graduates have distinguished themselves in sports, government, the arts, sciences, business, and public service as philanthropists and activists..." wikipedia)
Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn.
"Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates...
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1713 - (Pomfret, CT) - Purchased from area natives in 1686 and incorporated in 1713, Pomfret was named for Pontefract in Yorkshire, England.
Agriculture and various mills along the town’s plentiful waterways supported the settlers’ earliest enterprises.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ pomfret/
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1819 - Pomfret
Pomfret, a post township, is situated in the central section of the county, 40 miles northeast from Hartford, and 30 east from Providence; bounded on ... Read MORE...
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1854 - Pomfret
Pomfret, a post-village of Windham co., Connecticut, with a station on the Norwich and Worcester railroad, 33 miles N. by E. from Norwich. The... Read MORE...
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1895 - Pomfret
Pom'fret, a post-village in Pomfret township, Windham co., Conn., 4 miles S.W. of Putnam, about 26 miles N. by E. of Norwich, and 20 miles N.E. of... Read MORE...
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1906
Pomfret, a post-village in Pomfret township (town), Windham co., Conn., on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 25 miles N. by E. of Norwich. The ... Read MORE...
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