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Encyclopedia Britannica



WETHERSFIELD

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 564 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WETHERSFIELD , a township of Hartford county, Connecticut,
U.S.A., on the Connecticut river, adjoining on the N. the city of Hartford, of which it is a residential suburb. Pop. (1890) 2271;
(1900) 2637 (489 foreign-born); (1910) 3148. Area, about 12 sq. m. It is served by the New
York
 , New Haven & Hartford
railway and by electric lines to Hartford. Among its old buildings are the
house
  in which in 1781 George Washington and Count Rochambeau met to plan the Yorktown campaign; the First Church of Christ (Congregational), erected in 1761 and re-modelled in 1838 and 1882; and the old
academy
  building, which was built in 1802, is now used as a town
hall
 , and houses a public library. There is a giant elm here, 262 ft. in girth. The Connecticut state prison is in Wethersfield. In the township tobacco, vegetables and garden seeds are raised and dairy interests are of considerable importance; the principal manufactures are small tools and mattresses. Wethersfield is the oldest permanently
1 Title contested by Nathan Goff. Contest settled by legislature Feb. 4, 1890, until which time
Governor
  Wilson held over.inhabited township in the state; it was first settled in the winter of 1634-1635 by colonists from Watertown, Massachusetts, and received its present name in 1637. With Hartford and Windsor in 1639 it framed the Fundamental Orders of the Colony of Connecticut. Before r66o its inhabitants aided in the
founding
  of Stamford and Milford, Connecticut, and of Hadley, Massachusetts.
See H. R. Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield (New
York
 , 1900).


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