Preston, Connecticut Preston, Connecticut Official seal of Preston, Connecticut Location in New London County, Connecticut Location in New London County, Connecticut Preston is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
The populace was 4,726 at the 2010 census. The town includes the villages of Long Society, Preston City, and Poquetanuck.
In 1686, Thomas Parke, Thomas Tracy, and a several the rest petitioned for and were granted by the Connecticut General Court authority to establish a plantation seven miles square to the east of Norwich and north of New London and Stonington.
In October of that same year, the town was formally incorporated as Preston, titled for the English town/city of Preston, Lancashire. The Ecclesiastical Society of Preston was first organized in 1698, with the first meetinghouse positioned in present-day Preston City.
At the request of inhabitants in the northern part of Preston (now the town of Griswold), the North Society was established in 1716.
A splinter group, the Separate Church of Preston, was established in 1747 and continued until 1817.
The Preston City Baptist Church (now the Preston City Bible Church) was established in 1812. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 31.8 square miles (82 km2), of which 30.9 square miles (80 km2) is territory and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), or 2.71%, is water.
Preston City Other minor communities and geographic locations in the town are Hallville, Happyland, and Preston Plains.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.4% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $54,942, and the median income for a family was $62,554.
According to the Preston Historical Society, "Schools were assembled in 'districts' to serve the small-town children, until two central schools, one on Poquetanuck and one in Preston City were assembled between 1938 and 1940." Currently, enhance education in Preston is administered by Preston Public Schools, which operates the Preston Veterans' Memorial School (Pre-K to Grade 5) and the Preston Plains Middle School (Grades 6-8).
For high school, students go to multiple school districts of encircling towns, including the Norwich Free Academy, Ledyard High School, Grasso Tech, Norwich Tech, Marine Science Magnet High School, and Science and Tech Magnet High School in New London, CT.
Strawberry Park is positioned inside Preston.
Poquetanuck Village Historic District Roughly along Main Street between Route 117 and Middle Road and along School House and Cider Mill Road (added September 22, 1996) Preston City Historic District Amos and Old Shetucket Roads, Northwest Corner Road, and Route 164 (added August 31, 1987) Nathan Belcher (1813 1891), lawyer, Connecticut state senator, and US congressman, born in Preston Beriah Green (1795 1874), abolitionist and author born in Preston Clarence Ellis Harbison (1885 1960), animal psychologist who lived his later life and died in Preston John Haskell Hewitt (1835 1920), classical scholar and professor born in Preston Starkweather (1794 1879), congressman for New York, born in Preston Starkweather (1826 1876), postmaster and congressman born in Preston "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Preston town, New London County, Connecticut".
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About Preston, Town of Preston website, accessed September 9, 2009 Town of Preston official website Municipalities and communities of New London County, Connecticut, United States
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