Newington, Connecticut Newington, Connecticut Official seal of Newington, Connecticut Town manager Tanya Lane, Acting Town Manager Newington is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Located 8 miles (13 km) south of downtown Hartford, Newington is an older, mainly residentiary suburb positioned in Greater Hartford.
As of the 2010 census, it had a populace of 30,562. The Connecticut Department of Transportation has its command posts in Newington.
Newington is home to Mill Pond Falls, near the center of town. It is jubilated each fall amid the Waterfall Festival.
6.1 Newington High School While not established officially as a separate town until 1871, pioneer from close-by Wethersfield took up residence on the frontier of their riverside town in 1636.
In 1721, the "western" farmers requested that the General Assembly of the Connecticut Colony give their territory the name "Newington" to denote "the new town in the meadow." The Assembly granted the request, even though it took another 150 years before Newington officially became an incorporated town.
Newington's motto inscribed on its town seal is "growth and progress," which it began putting into effect at the end of the eighteenth century.
Newington interval in populace and region by the second half of the nineteenth century.
One centered on Wethersfield's inner village still closely tied to the Connecticut River; the other in Newington had advanced its own identity distinct from its mother town.
An 1870 map of Newington shows that the town was divided into four districts the North, the Middle, the South, and the South-east that ran from east to west.
In 1871, Newington had a populace of 871 citizens with 132 dwellings, and roughly 130 farms, a substantial increase from the start of the nineteenth century.
When Wethersfield town leaders refused to fund highway improvements for better access to the barns s, the town formally declared its independence on July 10.
John Fish's Store, in the center of town off Willard Street (later Willard Avenue), got the town's first telephone in 1883.
The street car began service in Newington in 1894 and connected Hartford and New Britain.
At first, Anglos moved to the town from Hartford and New Britain as foreign-born Poles, Italians, and Irish settled in those cities.
In 1898 Newington's Virginia Thrall Smith had appealed to the town's political leaders to build an asylum in Newington for the purpose of caring for neglected children.
Overwhelmingly the town allowed the request after Smith purchased territory at the foot of Cedar Mountain in the town's easterly portion.
Three other hospitals were assembled in town in the early twentieth century contemporaneous with the rise of Progressivism, including the 1911 establishment of Connecticut's first tuberculosis sanitarium on Cedar Mountain.
By the 1940s, Newington experienced the same level of expansion and populace growth that other suburbs around the state had.
The Hartford/New Haven Turnpike was retitled the Berlin Turnpike in 1942, and the road was widened from 18 feet (5.5 m) to 200 feet (61 m) the same year, a clear indication that this part of Newington had turn into vital to the town's commercial life.
Mill Pond, in the part of town, remained a big attraction for inhabitants because of its natural beauty; its 16-foot natural waterfall remains the smallest in the United States and is depicted on the town seal.
Newington became the victim of the dwindling defense industry, while at the same time its own businesses such as the Torrington Company, a manufacturer of automobile parts, solvents, and surgical staplers and Loctite, a specialty adhesives manufacturer, left town in the mid-1990s.
The building of Interstate 91 and Interstate 84 earlier in the century had affected Newington businesses adversely by making other metros/cities and suburbs more attractive to trade and but for the success of shopping centers, condominium development, and the continued commercial activeness of the Berlin Turnpike, Newington might have seen a sharper economic diminish as the twentieth century came to an end.
The town of Newington is bordered by the capital town/city of Hartford to the north, as well as the suburbs of (clockwise from Hartford) Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, Berlin, New Britain, Farmington, and West Hartford.
The 16-foot (4.9 m) high falls, positioned in central Newington at Mill Pond Park, is the smallest natural waterfall in the country. A walking path that encircles Mill Pond includes a footbridge which crosses over the waterfall.
Starting in 2000, the Newington Waterfall Committee has jubilated the famed waterfall through the Waterfall Festival, held every September in the center of town.
The festival features over 72 vendors and small-town music groups, as well as the "Artist's Chalk Walk" in which artists of all ages compete to problematic the best chalk drawing while passersby attend the festival. On April 17, 2010, the Newington Waterfall Committee agreed to plant a Crimson Maple dubbed the "Thankful Tree" at the falls, giving Newington inhabitants the chance to write on tags what they are thankful for. Newington Junction is a section of town centered at the intersection of Willard Avenue.
Newington received its Charter from the State of Connecticut in 1871 and is presently governed under the Council-Manager form of government, a fitness that combines the policy leadership of propel officials in the form of a Town Council, with the professional, managerial, and leadership expertise of an appointed Town Manager.
The Town Council is the legislative body for the Town of Newington, and nine members are propel to serve two year terms.
Recognized as the official head of the Town for ceremonial and military purposes, the Mayor has the authority to appoint the Town Attorney, Director of Health and Clerk of the Council. The Connecticut Department of Transportation has its command posts in Newington. The United States Postal Service operates the Newington Post Office. Although Amtrak does not presently serve Newington directly, the town center is positioned approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Hartford's Union Station.
Additionally, Newington is a prepared stop along the Hartford Line, a proposed commuter rail service from New Haven to Springfield that will use existing tracks, with a possible shuttle bus connection in Windsor Locks for Bradley International Airport.
As of December 2015, funding has been secured to finance the assembly of the new line, with service scheduled to begin in early 2018. The State of Connecticut has secured funding for restoration of the Newington Junction Railroad Depot, a passenger rail station positioned off Willard Avenue (CT-173) in the Newington Junction neighborhood.
In March 2015, CTfastrak, Connecticut's first bus rapid transit corridor opened, providing a separated right-of-way between Hartford and New Britain with a stop at Newington Junction. The station consists of two side platforms serving the busway, with two center passing lanes to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015.
Newington is served by a several bus routes directed by Connecticut Transit, including the 69, 41, 47 and 45.
Additionally, the 907 Newington Express provides express service to downtown Hartford.
Newington Public Schools operates enhance schools in Newington CT.
There are seven enhance schools in Newington.
Newington High School is attended by graduates of both middle schools and teaches grades nine through twelve.
Private schools in Newington include Emmanuel Christian Academy (Connecticut), which teaches Kindergarten through Grade 6.
The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium is positioned in Newington.
Until 1933, students of high school age in Newington traveled to Hartford or New Britain to attend high school.
World War II inhibited a building program, but in 1949 Newington's citizenry voted to build a new high school building.
This new building was occupied by 1951 and the first class to complete three years in the "new" Newington Senior High School graduated in 1954.
Very soon, Newington's populace growth was reflected in the overcrowded conditions at the high school.
In March 1971, Newington High School students and faculty were in their new locale at 605 Willard Avenue, and on October 3, 1971, formal dedication ceremonies were held.
The initial building (the first separate junior high) was razed, and the former Newington Senior High School of 1951 was renovated and is now used as the Town Hall and the Police Department.
Newington is served by the Connecticut state police, the small-town municipal police, and the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs Police Department.
Besides the school system, it is the only part of town government that is not under the control of the Town Council or Town Manager.
The volunteer fire department is run by an propel board of three fire commissioners, which appoints the fire marshal, the chief, and all officers. A study was undertaken amid the administration of former town manager Paul Fetherston that recommended eliminating the board of fire commissioners and placing the department under the control of the town manager.
The National Iwo Jima Memorial, positioned on Ella Grasso Boulevard on the Newington and New Britain town line Bill Rodgers (1960's), attended Newington High School was a 4-time winner of the Boston Marathon (1975, 1978, 1979, 1980), also won New York City Marathon (1976 80) "Town of Newington Boards, Commissions, and Committees" (PDF).
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