East Windsor, Connecticut East Windsor, Connecticut The dam and Opera House in the Broad Brook section of town The dam and Opera House in the Broad Brook section of town Official seal of East Windsor, Connecticut East Windsor's locale in Hartford County, Connecticut East Windsor's locale in Hartford County, Connecticut East Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
The town has five villages: Broad Brook, Melrose, Scantic, Warehouse Point and Windsorville.
In 1633, Settlers laid claim to the region now known as Windsor which encompassed East Windsor.
No English pioneer lived on the east side of the river.
The first English settler in what is today known as East Windsor, was William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Warehouse Point served as the southern border of Springfield, Massachusetts, for 132 years until 1768 when Warehouse Point, Connecticut was took in by the Connecticut Colony.
Pynchon chose the site of Warehouse Point because of its locale near the Enfield Falls the first primary falls in the Connecticut River, where all seagoing vessels were forced to terminate their voyages, and then transship to lesser shallops.
By constructing a warehouse at Warehouse Point, Pynchon essentially forced all northern Connecticut River company to run through him and his settlement at Springfield.
Meanwhile, most of today's East Windsor was part of the prominent Windsor settlement on the east side of the river.
Settlers avoided the East Side of the river doe to the Podunk tribe who inhabited the area, especially following King Philip's War in 1675.
It is unknown who was the first settler in today's East Windsor.
East Windsor also encompassed today's Ellington and South Windsor.
Eventually in 1768, The East Windsor church was partitioned from Windsor.
The center of town became what is now East Windsor Hill in today's South Windsor.
The town has five sections of town, Warehouse Point, Broad Brook, Scantic, Melrose, and Windsorville.
The earliest section of town is Warehouse Point, which, as mentioned, was first used by William Pynchon in the 1630s, and later settled as part of Springfield in the 1680s.
The Scantic section of town was the center of town until the mills were built.
In recent years, the town's locale equidistant to the two primary cities of Springfield and Hartford has led to exponential populace growth, and has caused it to turn into the quickest burgeoning town in Connecticut. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 26.8 square miles (69.5 km2), of which 26.3 square miles (68.0 km2) is territory and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 2.11%, is water. East Windsor is bordered by the town of Enfield to the north, South Windsor to the south, Ellington to the east, and Windsor Locks and Windsor to the west, athwart the Connecticut River.
By virtue of its locale on the Connecticut River, Windsor functioned as a vital port.
Windsor's Hooker and Chaffee mercantile firm maintained a store and packing homes right off Windsor's Palisado Green.
Small scale ship assembly took place at the mouth of the Scantic River in what is now South Windsor, Warehouse Point in what is now East Windsor, and along the Farmington from as far upriver as today's village of Poquonock (Stiles p.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.2% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 33.1% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
East Windsor Elementary School System serves students in pre-kindergarten through undertaking 4.
East Windsor Middle School serves students in grades 5 through 8.
East Windsor High School serves students in grades 9 through 12.
Route 5 runs though the town from the border with South Windsor to Enfield.
East Windsor is halfway between Hartford and Springfield, each 12 miles (19 km) away.
Interstate 91 serves East Windsor with exits 44 and 45.
Graph of East Windsor Crime Statistics East Windsor crime, as stated to city-data.com is mostly low against U.S.
The Connecticut Trolley Museum and the Connecticut Fire Museum are positioned in the Warehouse Point section of town.
The East Windsor Academy Museum directed by the historical society is positioned in the Scantic neighborhood.
The East Windsor Hill section of the close-by town of South Windsor was the boyhood home of the theologian Jonathan Edwards.
John's Episcopal Church (Warehouse Point, Connecticut) is on the National Register of Historic Places.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): East Windsor town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
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