West Hartford, Connecticut "West Hartford"
West Hartford, Connecticut West Hartford in August 2008 West Hartford in August 2008 Official logo of West Hartford, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Located 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Hartford, is an upmarket inner-ring suburb positioned in Greater Hartford.
The town is known for its prominent downtown region colloquially known as "West Hartford Center," or simply "The Center," which is centered on Farmington Avenue and South/North Main Street.
West Hartford Center has been the community's chief hub since the late 17th century.
Incorporated as a town in 1854, the town was previously a church of Hartford, established in 1672. Among the southernmost of the communities encompassed inside the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor urbane region, West Hartford is home to University of Hartford and the University of Saint Joseph.
In 2010, Kiplinger's Personal Finance periodical listed West Hartford as one of the nation's "10 Great Cities for Raising Families." In 2010, Kiplinger's ranked West Hartford #9 on its "10 Best Cities for the Next Decade" list. In 2010, CNN Money ranked West Hartford as the 55th best small town/city in America. In 2010, the nationwide online periodical Travelandleisure.com cited West Hartford as one of 10 "coolest" suburbs in the nation.
The periodical called the West Hartford Reservoir off Farmington Avenue "West Hartford's version of Central Park," and it also noted the town's "vacation-worthy hot spots, with cutting-edge restaurants, great shopping, and plenty of parking." According to new archaeological evidence, the Wampanoag citizens used West Hartford as one of their winter camps.
Fishing and hunting along the Connecticut River, the region of West Hartford offered the Wampanoag citizens a refuge from the cold winter wind and the river's harsh spring flooding.
In 1672 the Proprietors of Hartford ordered that a Division be created to the West.
In the 1670s the region was referred to as the "West Division" of Hartford.
It is believed that the first homesteader to West Hartford was Stephen Hosmer whose father was in Hooker's first group of Hartford pioneer and who later owned 300 acres (1,200,000 m2) just north of the present day Center.
Young Hosmer would eventually go back to live in Hartford, but in his 1693 estate inventory, 310 acres (1,300,000 m2) in West Hartford along with a home and a sawmill are listed.
Slave for whom one of West Hartford's middle schools is named, Bristow bought his freedom from Thomas Hart Hooker in April 1775 as Hooker set off to fight in the Revolutionary War.
He is the only known African American to be buried in West Hartford's Old Center Burial Yard. Noah Webster House (West Hartford, CT) - front facade In 1770, Ebenezer Faxon came from Massachusetts and settled in what would turn into the Elmwood section of West Hartford.
For over a hundred years, the Goodwin name would be associated with West Hartford pottery.
Sarah Whitman Hooker House in West Hartford, August 22, 2008 Ice from Trout Brook, a stream that runs through the middle of West Hartford, was harvested in the winter, sawn into blocks, and placed into a series of ice homes through an escalator system.
By the late 19th century, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad ran through part of Elmwood in the southeast corner of town.
The biggest of West Hartford manufacturers was Pratt & Whitney.
In the spring of 1854, the Connecticut General Assembly was meeting in New Haven (co-capitol with Hartford at the time).
Most likely taking favor of the distance from Hartford, a petition dated March 21 was bringed to the General Assembly by delegates from West Hartford.
Signed by 153 residents, the petition claimed that residences were "subjected to many inconveniences on account of their present connection with the town and town/city of Hartford and that their convenience and prosperity would be essentially promoted by being set off as a separate town." On April 26, about 100 inhabitants from West Hartford presented their own case against secession.
After review and an opportunity for Hartford to make an argument for keeping West Hartford, the General Assembly voted on May 3 for West Hartford's independence.
In 1895 wealthy inhabitants from the "East Side" of West Hartford petitioned Hartford for annexation.
Their call was rebuffed by other West Hartford residents.
Then in 1923 and 1924 Hartford wanted to annex West Hartford back so that it could achieve a "Greater Hartford Plan." It is transit that has had the biggest impact on West Hartford and its evolution from sleepy crossroads to undivided suburb.
In the late 18th and early 19th century three turnpikes ran through West Hartford.
Then came the street cars starting in 1845, Fred Brace began running a horse-drawn omnibus from his home on the corner of Farmington Avenue and Dale Street into downtown Hartford.
Even more momentous were the horse-drawn street car lines and later electric street cars that in 1889 began to weave their way from the inner town/city of Hartford to the countryside of West Hartford.
As such Hartford's company leaders began building their mansions along Prospect Avenue.
Prospect Avenue is adjoining to Hartford, designed by acclaimed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1896 and titled for the wife of Governor Charles H.
In 1900, the Hartford Golf Club opened its links on the other side of Asylum Avenue just west of Prospect Avenue, adding to the area's ideal suburban sensibility. Called Buena Vista, it was promoted it "Hartford's New and Handsome Suburb." West Hill Historic District in West Hartford 2 Designed by some of Hartford's best architects in the 1920s, West Hill is momentous historically because it is an excellent example of a prepared real estate evolution of the early 1920s that proceeded under specific design restrictions to achieve outstanding success as a well-crafted and prestigious neighborhood.
By the 1920s and 30s the impact of the automobile was felt in West Hartford as the town became more accessible to Hartford's middle and working class people.
Between 1910 and 1930 the populace of West Hartford interval from 4,808 to 24,941 residents.
Then with the end of the Great Depression, World War II, and the exodus from urban centers, West Hartford witnessed a tremendous influx of citizens as its populace swelled from 33,776 in 1940 to 62,382 citizens by 1960.
In the 50s, the major avenues Albany, Asylum and Farmington became meaningful arteries for commuters, and the access made West Hartford attractive to middle-class families.
The interstate had many ramifications on the community, the most visible was that it bisected the town, isolating the more industrialized and ethnically diverse neighborhood of Elmwood with a physical barrier from the rest of West Hartford. Furthermore, The interstate allowed for increased accessibility as the populace increased with the Baby Boom and development, and recalibrated the traditional retail sites.
Fox & Co., and Sage-Allen, the mall further recalibrated retail in West Hartford.
Outside the library at Blue Back Square in West Hartford, Connecticut, August 10, 2008 A six-screen movie theatre as well as two 500-space parking garages were also built. Named after Noah Webster's prominent spelling book, Blue-Back Speller, the evolution has decidedly altered the Center and furthered West Hartford's status as a county-wide dining and shopping destination. American Beech Tree, West Hartford, CT The west side of West Hartford is bordered by the Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap modern ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
Notable features of the Metacomet Ridge in West Hartford include Talcott Mountain and a number of highland water reservoirs belonging to the Metropolitan District, which maintains watershed and recreation resources on the property.
West Hartford is adjoining to and west of Hartford, the state capital, and borders Bloomfield, Newington, New Britain, Farmington, and Avon.
West Hartford is approximately 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Boston and 120 miles (190 km) northeast of New York City.
Interstate 84 runs through West Hartford.
Of West Hartford residents, 49.85% are religious.
1 Town of West Hartford 1,000 2,000 West Hartford has been governed via the council manager government since 1919.
West Hartford was the first town in the state and one of the first in the nation to adopt this form of government where the council acts as the propel policy board and the town manager serves as the chief executive officer responsible for carrying out the policies of the council.
Town Council members are propel at large for two years and represent all of West Hartford and the town clerk is propel for four years.
Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, is twenty minutes north of downtown Hartford.
Other airports serving the Hartford region include: Hartford-Brainard Airport, positioned in Hartford off I-91 and close to Wethersfield, serves charter flights and small-town flights.
Westover Metropolitan Airport, positioned in Chicopee, Massachusetts, 27 miles (43 km) north of Hartford, serves commercial, local, charter, and military flights.
Although Amtrak does not presently serve West Hartford directly, the town center is positioned approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Hartford's Union Station.
Additionally, West Hartford is a prepared stop along the Hartford Line, a commuter rail service from New Haven to Springfield that will use the current Amtrak line, 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 the assembly of a new train station at Flatbush Ave, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and New Park Avenue. In March 2015, CTfastrak, Connecticut's first bus rapid transit corridor opened, providing a separated right-of-way between Hartford and New Britain. West Hartford is served by two stations: West Hartford is served by a several bus routes of Connecticut Transit.
Major roads served are Albany Avenue (Route 58), New Britain Avenue (Routes 37, 39, and 128), Park Street (Routes 31 and 33), South/North Main Street (Route 153) Farmington Avenue (Routes 60, 62, 64, and 66), Asylum Avenue (Route 72), Hillside Avenue (Route 63), and Boulevard/South Quaker Lane (Route 69).
I-84, which runs from Scranton, to its intersection with I-90 in Sturbridge, just over the Massachusetts border passing through West Hartford.
In 2006 Money periodical ranked West Hartford as the 10th most educated town in the United States, as calculated by the percentage of town inhabitants holding graduate or experienced degrees. Connecticut Magazine 2006 rankings put West Hartford Public School education in the top three among all metros/cities and suburbs in Connecticut for its populace class of greater than 50,000 citizens , behind only Greenwich and Fairfield. The town is home to two enhance high schools, Conard High School (home of the Conard Chieftains) and Hall High School (home of the Hall Warriors), as well as 11 elementary schools and three middle schools in the West Hartford Public Schools.
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From Colonial Parish to Modern Suburb: Brief Appreciation of West Hartford (1st ed.).
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