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WILLIMANTIC

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 686 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WILLIMANTIC , a city of Windham county, Connecticut, U.S.A., in the township of Windham, at the junction of the Willimantic and Natchaug rivers to form the Shetuc'ket, in the E. part of the state, about 16 m. N.W. of Norwich. Pop. (189o) 8648; (1900) 8937, of whom 2491 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 11,230. It is served by the New
York
 , New Haven & Hartford and the Central
Vermont
  railways, and by electric lines to Baltic, Norwich and New London, and to
South
  Coventry. It is the seat of a State Normal Training School, and has a public library and Dunham
Hall
  Library (1878). The Willimantic river provides good water-power, and there are various manufactures. The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,902,447. The township of Windham was incorporated in 1692. Willimantic was settled in 1822, incorporated as a borough in 1833, and chartered as a city in 1893. The name is from an Indian word meaning " good look-out " or " good
cedar
  swamps."


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