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Windsor (wĭn'zər), town (1990 pop. 27,817), Hartford co., N Conn., at the confluence of the Farmington and Connecticut rivers, just N of Hartford. Settled by Plymouth Colony in 1633, the town was named Dorchester in 1635 and renamed Windsor in 1637. Windsor was the first English settlement in Connecticut and is the state's oldest town. Although primarily residential, the town has a variety of industries including insurance and the manufacture of iron and paper products, computer components, tools, machinery, and electronics. It was once renowned for its tobacco production and still produces some shade-grown tobacco; the town was long a brick-manufacturing center. The American statesman Oliver Ellsworth was born there; his home is a museum. Colonial buildings in Windsor include Fyler House (1640) and the Joseph Loomis House.

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Windsor, Connecticut
—  Town  —

Seal
Motto: First in Connecticut, First for its Citizens
Location in Hartford County, Connecticut
Coordinates: 41°51′10″N 72°38′35″W / 41.85278°N 72.64306°W / 41.85278; -72.64306Coordinates: 41°51′10″N 72°38′35″W / 41.85278°N 72.64306°W / 41.85278; -72.64306
NECTA Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
Region Capitol Region
Settled 1633
Named 1637
Government
 - Type Council-manager[1]
 - Town manager Peter Souza
 - Town council Donald S. Trinks,
Mayor;
Al Simon,
Deputy Mayor;
Robert B. Gegetskas II;
William H. Herzfeld;
Donald A. Jepsen, Jr.;
Ronald Eleveld;
Randy McKenney;
Matthew Marci;
Robert Rispoli
Area
 - Total 31.1 sq mi (80.5 km2)
 - Land 29.6 sq mi (76.7 km2)
 - Water 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km2)
Elevation 55 ft (17.37 m)
Population (2005)[2]
 - Total 28,778
 - Density 972/sq mi (375/km2)
Time zone Eastern (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP code 06095
Area Code 860
FIPS code 09-87000
GNIS feature ID 0212354
Website http://www.townofwindsorct.com/
Elevation noted at Town Hall.[3][4]

Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population was estimated at 28,778 in 2005.[2]

Poquonock is a northern area of Windsor that has its own zip code (06064) for PO Box purposes.[5] Other areas in Windsor, which are not incorporated, include Rainbow and Hayden Station in the north, and Wilson and Deerfield in the south.

The Day Hill Road area is known as Windsor's Corporate Area, although other centers of business include New England Tradeport, Kennedy Industry Park and Kennedy Business Park, all near Bradley International Airport and the Addison Road Industrial Park.

Contents

History

During the first part of the Seventeenth Century, the Pequot and Mohawk Nations had been at war, catching the Podunk Indians in the crossfire and forcing them to pay tribute to the Pequots, who claimed their land. Eventually, the Podunk invited a small party of settlers from Plymouth, Massachusetts to provide a mediating force between the other tribes, in exchange granting them a plot of land at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River. After Edward Winslow came from Plymouth to inspect the land, William Holmes led a small party, arriving at the site on September 26, 1633 where they founded a trading post.

Native Americans referred to the area as Matianuck. It was about 50 miles (80 km) up river, at the end of waters navigable by ship and above the Dutch fort at Hartford, offering an advantageous location to trade with the Indians before the Dutch. (The Sicaog tribe had made a similar offer to mediate to the Dutch in New Amsterdam, but they had declined to send settlers, their interest in Connecticut having been limited to the fur trade.)

In 1635, 60 or more people led by the Reverends Maverick and Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts, where they had first settled after arriving in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England.[6] Reverend Warham promptly renamed the settlement Dorchester. During the next few years, more settlers arrived from Dorchester, Massachusetts outnumbering and soon displacing the original Plymouth contingent, who mostly returned to Plymouth.

In 1637, the colony's General Court changed the name of the settlement from Dorchester to Windsor,[7] named after the town of Windsor England on the River Thames. As with all such names dating back many centuries, there are many claims as to the derivation of the name. These include a corruption of the Saxon words 'windlass Oran,' meaning a bank of a river with a windlass.[citation needed] From Windlesore, or 'Winding Shores,' where boats were pulled by windlass ('windles') up the river. From 'winding' meaning 'meandering' shores. And from 'a sore wind,' referring to the wind that blew across the mound upon which Windsor Castle, England was built. But the latter fails on chronological grounds.[8]

Captain Nathaniel Hayden Homestead

Several towns that border Windsor were once entirely or partially part of Windsor including: Windsor Locks; South Windsor; East Windsor; Ellington, (which was later part of East Windsor); and Bloomfield, (originally called "Wintonbury"; a composite of the town names Windsor, Farmington and Simsbury).[9]

The first "highway" in Connecticut opened in 1638 between Windsor and Hartford. As other towns were settled further up the Connecticut river, such as Springfield, Massachusetts and Northampton, Massachusetts, trading routes were extended to them.

The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway connected with the Conn. Co. in Windsor Center until 1925. Buses replaced trolleys between Rainbow (a northern section of Windsor) and Windsor Center in 1930; cars continued to run from Windsor to Hartford until 1940.[10]

These original Windsor settlers have many descendants around the country and beyond. Many are members of The Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor (DFAW).

Windsor Historical Society

The Windsor Historical Society was founded in 1921 to collect and preserve records, facts and materials related to the history and the citizens of Windsor; to identify, preserve, and mark buildings and locations of historic interest, to record current history for future generations; to publish documents and pamphlets relating to Windsor, and to prepare for the observance of the Tercentenary of Windsor in 1933.

The Loomis Homestead (1640), one of the oldest in the state, still remains on the campus of the Loomis Chaffee School (1910 postcard)

The Society offers permanent and changing exhibitions about Windsor, its local people, and artifacts. Education programs provide audiences with interactive, inquiry-based learning.The public can visit a research library and manuscript collection which houses over 12,000 books and other archival materials such as historic Windsor photographs, documents, ephemera, and genealogical materials. Over 11,000 objects are housed in the museum collections ranging from furniture and decorative arts to tools, arrowheads, and textiles. The John and Sarah Strong House, built in 1758, and the Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House, built in 1767, are open to the public. The Society also has a Hands-on-History Learning Center for families and a museum gift shop. The Windsor Historical Society is open year round, Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Other points of interest

On historic Palisado Avenue, one can find the First Church In Windsor, Congregational and adjacent graveyard.[11]

Across the street on the Palisado green stands a statue of John Mason (a founder of Windsor and colonial leader in the Pequot War).

Further north is the home of Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.[12]

The town center is well-planned in comparison to many of the others in the Greater Hartford area, including a relative diversity of chains and local shops, as well as a recently restored Amtrak station that dates to the 1850s.

The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut is also located in Windsor.[13]

Historic sites

Oliver Ellsworth Homestead

Windsor is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:[14]

  • Allyn, Capt. Benjamin, II, House - 119 Deerfield Rd. (added 1979)
  • Giles Barber House - 411—413 Windsor Avenue (added 1988)
  • Bissell Tavern-Bissell's Stage House - 1022 Palisado Avenue (added 1985)
  • Broad Street Green Historic District - Roughly along Broad Street from Batchelder Rd. to Union St. (added 1999)
  • Benomi Case House - 436 Rainbow Rd. (added 1988)
  • Hezekiah Chaffee House - Meadow Lane, off Palisado Green (added 1972)
  • Taylor Chapman House - 407 Palisado Avenue (added 1988)
  • Horace H. Ellsworth House - 316 Palisado Avenue (added 1988)
  • Oliver Ellsworth Homestead - 778 Palisado Avenue (added 1970)[15]
  • Farmington River Railroad Bridge - Spans Farmington River and Pleasant St. W of Palisado Ave. (added 1972)
  • Palisado Avenue Historic District - Palisado Ave. between the Farmington River and Bissell Ferry Rd. (added 1987)

Connecticut Shade Tobacco

Tobacco farming in Connecticut has a long history. When the first settlers came to the valley in the 1630s, tobacco was already being grown by the native population. By 1700, tobacco was being exported via the Connecticut River to European ports. The use of Connecticut tobacco as a cigar wrapper leaf began in the 1820s. By the 1830s, tobacco farmers were experimenting with different seeds and processing techniques.[16]

Area farmers grew tobacco for the two outside layers of cigars, the binder and the wrapper. A tobacco leaf type named Shoestring, then Broadleaf and Havana Seed were used. In the late 1800s a fine grained leaf type imported from Sumatra began to replace the wrapper from the Connecticut River valley. The tobacco farmers matched the Sumatran leaf by making shade tents of cloth to cut sunlight and raise humidity. The first tent was raised in 1900 on River Street in Windsor.[17] Windsor tobacco leaves are highly prized by fine cigar makers, and are used as the cigar's outer wrapping. The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods company including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.[16]

Rows of Tobacco Sheds

The technique of growing shade tobacco has changed little in the past hundred years. To form the shade tents, a tobacco field is set with posts in a grid layout. Wires are stretched from post to post, and a light, durable fabric (once cotton but now a synthetic fiber) is tied across them and draped along the sides. For example, twenty posts in four rows of five will create twelve square cells in three rows of four. Two guy-wires hold up Under the tents the sunlight is soft and diffused the air is humid and the ambient temperature is slightly warmer than outside. Filtering the sun produces a thinner and more elastic tobacco leaf that cures to a lighter, even color.

At its height, there was greater than 15,000 acres (61 km2) of tobacco being cultivated under shade in the Connecticut River valley. Currently, the amount of tobacco being grown in the valley is just over a steady 2,000 acres (8.1 km2).[17] Approximately 34,000 acres (140 km²) of land in Connecticut is covered by Windsor Soil, named after the town.[18]

The movie "Parrish", starring Troy Donoahue and Karl Malden, was set in the tobacco farms of Windsor, and filmed here in 1961.

While much of the Day Hill Road section of town has been given over to industry, the long red wooden sheds that are used to store and dry the tobacco are still noticeable. The Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum[17] containing authentic farming implements and tools can be found at Northwest Park located in Windsor.[19]

Windsor today

Education

  • One public school for pre-school and kindergarten: Roger Wolcott Early Childhood Center,
  • Four public elementary schools (Grades 1-5): Oliver Ellsworth Elementary School, Clover Street Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Elementary School, and Poquonock Elementary School,
  • One public middle school (Grades 6-8): Sage Park Middle School and
  • One public high school (Grades 9-12): Windsor High School.[20]
  • Two public libraries: Windsor Public Library[21] and Wilson Public Library
  • Loomis Chaffee, the well-known college preparatory school is located in Windsor, on a 320 acre (1.3 km²) campus at the confluence of the Connecticut and Farmington rivers.
  • Saint Gabriel's School is a private school that teaches grades kindergarten through eighth.[22]
  • Trinity Christian School is a private school that teaches grades kindergarten through seventh.[23][24]
  • Praise, Power, Prayer Christian School is a private school that teaches grades kindergarten through twelfth.[25][26]
  • Branford Hall Career Institute is located on Day Hill Road.[27]
  • Baran Institute of Technology is located on Day Hill Road.[28]

Parks

Windsor's Town Hall and Fountain on the Town Green
  • Windsor Meadows State Park is in the south east corner of town.[29] The park runs down the shore of the Connecticut River.
  • Keney Park, in the south, straddles Windsor and Hartford; it includes Cricket Fields and a Golf Course.[30]
  • Northwest Park, Windsor's largest park, is located in the northwest corner of Windsor. It includes a nature center, trails and a petting zoo.[31]
  • Welch Park is in the neighborhood of Poquonock on the Farmington River. Welch Park is home to a public pool and numerous baseball diamonds, along with a small playground.
  • Stroh Park is off of Route 159 near Wilson Congregational Church towards the south end of town. Stroh Park is home to a public pool, tennis courts, a playground, and a pond.
  • Strawberry Hills Park is located on River Street. A popular location in the summer months for those interested in canoeing and kayaking the Farmington River.

Events

  • The Northwest Park Country Fair is held every fall.[32]
  • The Shad Derby Festival is held every spring in the town center.[33]

Entertainment

  • Tradition Golf Club.[34]
  • Keney Park Golf Club.[30]

Religion

Monument on Windsor's Town Green which reads "To The Patriots of Windsor". Grace Episcopal Church is in the background.
  • Hopewell Baptist Church
  • Windsor Home Church
  • Pilgrim Way Baptist Church
  • Grace Baptist Church
  • Greater St. Paul's Baptist Church of Deliverance
  • Saint Gabriel's Church, Roman Catholic
  • Saint Gertrude's Church, Roman Catholic
  • Saint Joseph's Church, Roman Catholic
  • The First Church in Windsor, United Church of Christ
  • Poquonock Community Church, United Church of Christ
  • Wilson Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
  • Holy Zion Church of the Jubilee
  • Mount Carmel Christian Ministries
  • Faith Community Church
  • Grace Episcopal Church
  • Archer Memorial AME Zion Church
  • Trinity United Methodist Church
  • Christ the King Lutheran Church
  • Congragation Beth Ahm, Jewish
  • River of Life Christian Church
  • Tohrah Judea
  • Connecticut Valley Church of Christ
  • Praise Power & Prayer Temple
  • Islamic Center of Connecticut

Transportation

Windsor Amtrak Station, in the former Hartford & New Haven Railroad Depot
  • Windsor, Connecticut (Amtrak station)
  • Bradley International Airport, which serves Greater Hartford as well as the greater Pioneer Valley, is located in the adjacent town of Windsor Locks to the north.
  • Connecticut Transit: There are eight routes serving Windsor: 15, 30, 32, 34, 36, 42, 54, and 92.
    • The 30-Bradley Flyer route bus runs between Hartford and Bradley International Airport through Windsor.
    • The 32, 34, and 36 routes run between Windsor Center and Downtown Hartford along Windsor and Poquonock Avenues. While the 32 route terminates at the Poquonock Park & Ride Lot, the 34 route continues on to serve the Walgreens Distribution Center in the Rainbow neighborhood, and the 36 route continues on to connect with the 54 route in the Day Hill Road Corporate Area.
    • The 92 route provides crosstown trips through Windsor beginning at Copaco in Bloomfield and ending at the Shoppes at Buckland Hills in Manchester.
    • The 42N-North Main Street-Wilson route terminates at the Wilson Park & Ride Lot.
    • Service to the Poquonock Park & Ride Lot is provided by the local 30, 32, 34, 36, and 54 routes as well as the 15-Windsor Express route, which provides ezpress service between Poquonock Avenue and Downtown Hartford via I-91.[35]
Windsor Art Center, in the former Hartford & New Haven Freight Depot

Public safety

  • Windsor Police Department is located at the Windsor Safety Complex, in the middle of town, next to I-91, on Bloomfield Avenue.[36]
  • Windsor Volunteer Fire Department has 5 stations: Windsor Station (at the Windsor Safety Complex), Wilson Station, Poquonock Station, Rainbow Road Station and Hayden Station.[37]
  • Windsor Volunteer Ambulance is also located at the Windsor Safety Complex.[38]

Notable residents

Oliver Ellsworth

Geography

Captain John Bissell Memorial Bridge spanning the Connecticut River between the towns of Windsor and South Windsor.

Windsor's highest point is on Day Hill at 230 feet (70 m).[42]

Windsor's lowest point is at the Connecticut River shore at 5 feet (2 m).[42] The Connecticut River defines Windsor's east border. The city of Hartford, the Capital of Connecticut, is adjacent to Windsor to the south. The town of Windsor Locks, home of Bradley International Airport, is adjacent to Windsor to the north. Prior to its incorporation in 1854, it was known as the Pine Meadow section of Windsor. The towns of East Windsor and South Windsor are on east side of the Connecticut River, which defines Windsor's eastern border. The town of Bloomfield is to the west. The town of East Granby is to the northwest.

Windsor is two towns, approximately 20 minutes, south from Massachusetts.

The Farmington River joins the Connecticut River in Windsor. The Farmington River is dammed in the northwest corner of Windsor to form the 234-acre (0.95 km2) Rainbow Reservoir.[43]

Demographics

Population

Year Population
1850 3294
1900 3614
1950 11833
2000 28237 [44]

Population density was 368.0/km² (953.0/sq mi).

In the town the population was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.5 males. 7,604 families residing in the town. 10,900 housing units at an average density of 367.9/sq mi (142.0/km²). 10,577 households out of which 32.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% were non-families.

23.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.10.

Income

In the 2000 U.S. Census, median income for a household in the town was $64,137, and median income for a family was $73,064. ($76,637 and $84,510, respectively, as of a 2007 estimate[45]). Males had a median income of $45,443 versus $37,476 for females (2000).

Windsor was one of a handful of towns in the country where, in the United States Census, 2000, median income for black households ($64,159) was larger than white households ($63,624). Asian households had a median income of $75,716. Hispanic or Latino (of any race) households has a median income of $69,808.[46]

The per capita income for the town was $27,633 (risen to $33,242, in 2007 census estimate[45]). About 2.2% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.3% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.

Diversity

Racial makeup of the town was

Windsor High School has 1471 students enrolled and demographics for 2004-2005 were:

  • Black 46.2%
  • White 41.1%
  • Hispanic 8.8%
  • Asian 3.8%
  • Native American 0.1%[47]

Politics

Connecticut House of Representatives:

Connecticut Senate:

United States House of Representatives:

Voter Registration and Party Enrollment as of October 28, 2008[53]
Party Active Voters Inactive Voters Total Voters
  Democratic 9,338 283 9,621
  Republican 2,961 149 3,110
  Unaffiliated 7,659 471 8,130
  Minor Parties 27 0 27
Total 19,985 903 20,888

Minor party registrations in Windsor include Green and Libertarian.

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