Norwich, Connecticut
Norwich, Connecticut A view of the Norwich City Hall A view of the Norwich City Hall Official seal of Norwich, Connecticut Norwich, known as 'The Rose of New England', is a town/city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
Norwichtown was established in 1659, by pioneer from Old Saybrook led by Major John Mason and Reverend James Fitch. They purchased the territory "nine miles square" that would turn into Norwich from the small-town Native Mohegan Sachem Uncas. In 1668, a wharf was established at Yantic Cove.
By the early 19th century, the center of Norwich had effectively moved to the Chelsea neighborhood.
The official buildings of the town/city were positioned in the harbor area, such as the City Hall, courts, and postal service, and all the large 19th-century urban blocks.
The former center is now called Norwichtown to distinguish it from the current city.
Norwich merchants were shipping goods directly from England, but the Stamp Act of 1764 forced Norwich to turn into more self-sufficient.
The ship captains of Norwich and New London who were skillful at avoiding Imperial taxation amid peacetime later were just as prosperous eluding warships amid war.
During the American Revolution Norwich supported the cause for independence by supplying soldiers, ships, and munitions.
Norwich was also a center for activeness for the Sons of Liberty.
One of the most notable figures of the Revolution, Benedict Arnold, was born in Norwich.
Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 19th century.
During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the expansion of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing.
This was also spurred by the building of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad in 1832 1837 bringing goods and citizens both in and out of Norwich.
By the 1870s the Springfield and New London Railroad was also running trains through Norwich.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.5 sq mi (76.4 km2), of which 28.3 sq mi (73.4 km2) is territory and 1.2 sq mi (3.0 km2) (3.87%) is water.
Climate data for Groton New London Airport (GON) (1981-2010), snow data from Norwich, Connecticut (1981-2010).
Average snowy days ( 0.05) 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 Main article: Neighborhoods of Norwich, Connecticut Several Norwich neighborhoods maintain autonomous identities and are recognized by official signs marking their boundaries.
Neighborhoods of Norwich are Norwichtown, Bean Hill, Yantic, Taftville, Greeneville, Occum, East Great Plains, Thamesville, Laurel Hill and Chelsea (the initial "downtown" area.) In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 24.1% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 2012, the populace had risen to 40,502 and the ethnic makeup of the town/city was 70% White, 13% Hispanic or Latino, 10% Black or African American, 8% Asian, and 1% Native American.
The AA Eastern League Connecticut Defenders, previously the Norwich Navigators, were a farm team of the San Francisco Giants and they played at Senator Thomas J.
This forested region is Norwich's biggest park.
Many of the hiking trails are used by the Norwich Free Academy cross nation team for practices, and in 2006 the team volunteered to advancement the condition of trails.
The Park Center contains Spaulding Pond, the square, fountain and Mohegan monument, both playgrounds and a dog pound run by the Norwich Police Department.
On March 6, 1963, long term saturation of the over 100 year old earthen content, along with unchecked shrub and tree growth, severely weakened the structural content of the dam and caused the waters of Spaulding Pond to burst forth into the city, causing the Great Flood of Norwich, elegantly chronicled in the 2013 book "A Swift and Deadly Maelstrom; The Great Norwich Flood of 1963." This pond, which had always been designed as an overflow spillway for Spaulding Pond and, when frozen in the winter provided a wonderful ice skating region for the small-town youth, thus its sobriquet, was re-designed as part of Norwich's long term flood plan in 1968 and presently still serves as a surge overflow volume for the upgraded Spaulding Pond Dam although it is no longer open to enhance use however. The Norwich Municipal Ice Rink has a 200' x 85' NHL regulation ice surface, four large locker rooms and other amenities.
Established in 1995, the Rose City Warriors are Norwich's Senior Women's Ice Hockey Team and a number of small-town high school ice hockey squads call the Rink home as well.
The Slater Memorial Museum, positioned on the ground of the Norwich Free Academy, is titled for John Fox Slater (1815 1884), corporator of The Norwich Free Academy for twenty years.
Norwich Falls, petroleum on canvas, John Trumbull, 1806 Panorama of Norwich, Connecicut Norwich horizon The town/city elects a Mayor, who presides over the City Council, which includes six other members, all propel at large.
The council appoints the Town and City Clerk, a City Manager who acts as chief executive officer of the town/city government, the town/city Planning Commission, and Zoning Board of Appeals. Elementary and middle school inhabitants are zoned to Norwich Public Schools. The middle schools of Norwich are Teachers' Memorial Middle School and Kelly Middle School.
Norwich is also home to the Integrated Day Charter School, an alternative to the region of enhance schools.
The Norwich Free Academy is the major high school for students living in Norwich and a several surrounding towns.
The Norwich Free Academy was incorporated in 1855 by an act of the Connecticut Legislature, and operates as a privately endowed autonomous school governed by its Board of Trustees and funded by private, municipal, and state sources.
In 2006, Sidney Frank donated $12 million to the Norwich Free Academy which resulted in the campus's newest building being titled after him: the Sidney E.
Norwich Technical High School, A Connecticut Technical High School System School, also serves the area.
This school is a enhance option to those inside the Norwich area, and many other suburbs surrounding Norwich.
To those inside the Norwich area, transit is provided by Norwich Public Schools via the same buses that serve Norwich Free Academy in the morning, and in the afternoon students are transported to Norwich Free Academy to use their buses to return home.
Public Transportation in Norwich is provided by Southeast Area Transit, or SEAT.
Benedict Arnold (1741 1801), born in Norwich, American Revolutionary War general and later British defector; a commemorative plaque is on the lot where his home used to stand; town/city library has a prominent portrait of Arnold on its north wall Hannah Arnold (1708 1758), born in Norwich, mother of Benedict Arnold Isaac Backus (1724 1806), a delegate to the First Continental Congress, born in the town/city Bromley (1833 1899), born in Norwich, lawyer, editor, politician, barns director, possibly most notable as a humorist William Alfred Buckingham (1804 1875), Mayor of Norwich, 41st governor of Connecticut, and United States Senator Caswell, Wisconsin politician, born in the town/city Richard Falley Cleveland (1804 1853), born and raised in Norwich, Christian minister known as the father of President Grover Cleveland Margaret Coit (1919 2003), historian, born in the town/city Erastus Corning (1794 1872), businessman and politician, born in the town/city Dodd, was born in the town/city Senator and 57th President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate; died in the town/city Roger Griswold (1762 1812), Governor of Connecticut, practiced law for a time in Norwich Samuel Kirkland (1741 1808), Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora citizens ; founder (in 1793) of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy (later Hamilton College), was born in the town/city Wally Lamb (1950-), author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True; director of the Writing Center at the Norwich Free Academy in the town/city from 1989 to 1998 1643), chief of the Narraganset tribe, captured and executed by the Mohegan chief Uncas with a tomahawk in Norwich Simeon Perkins (1735 1812), Nova Scotia merchant, diarist, and politician; outfitted Loyalist privateers amid the American War for Independence; born and raised in this town/city until moving to Liverpool, Nova Scotia with the New England Planters Bela Pratt, sculptor, born in Norwich in 1867 Annie Proulx, journalist and author; born in 1935 in the town/city Edith Roosevelt (1861 1948), second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, was born in the town/city Matt Shaughnessy (1986-), football defensive end for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League, graduate of Norwich Free Academy Charles Sholes (1816 1867), Wisconsin politician, was born in the town/city Lydia Sigourney (1791 1865), extremely prominent poet from the early-to-mid-19th century, was born in the town/city Wesson in Norwich in the early 1850s to precarious the first repeating rifle, known as the Volcanic rifle; the two established Smith & Wesson in 1852 Senate, was born in the town/city List of newspapers in Connecticut in the 18th century: Norwich "Mayor & City Council".
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