Wethersfield, Connecticut Wethersfield, Connecticut Official seal of Wethersfield, Connecticut Wethersfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, USA, immediately south of Hartford along the Connecticut River.
Many records from colonial times spell the name "Weathersfield", while Native Americans called it "Pyquag". The town's motto is "Ye Most Auncient Towne in Connecticut", and its populace was 26,668 in the 2010 census. The town is primarily served by Interstate 91.
The neighborhood known as Old Wethersfield is the state's biggest historic district, spanning two square miles and 1,100 buildings, dating back to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Founded in 1634 by a Puritan settlement party of "10 Men" including John Oldham, Robert Seeley, Thomas Topping and Nathaniel Foote, Wethersfield is arguably the earliest town in Connecticut, depending on one's interpretation of when a remote settlement qualifies as a "town".
Along with Windsor and Hartford, Wethersfield is represented by one of the three grapevines on the Flag of Connecticut, signifying the state's three earliest European settlements. The town took its name from Wethersfield, a village in the English county of Essex.
The Wethersfield Volunteer Fire Department was chartered by the Connecticut Legislature on May 12, 1803, making it the first formally chartered fire department in Connecticut, and is one of the earliest chartered volunteer fire department in continuous existence in the United States. Wethersfield was "for a century at least, the centre of the onion trade in New England", amid the late 1700s and early to middle 1800s. "Outsiders dubbed the Connecticut village 'Oniontown,' with a crosshatch of affection and derision, for this was home of the world-famous Wethersfield red onion." A meteorite fell on Wethersfield on November 8, 1982.
It was the second meteorite to fall in the town in the span of 11 years, and crashed through the roof of a home without injuring the occupants, as the first Wethersfield meteorite had also done.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 13.1 square miles (34.0 km2), of which 12.3 square miles (31.9 km2) is territory and 0.81 square miles (2.1 km2), or 6.10%, is water. Wethersfield is bordered by Hartford on the north, Rocky Hill on the south, Newington on the west, and athwart the Connecticut River by East Hartford on the northeast and Glastonbury on the east.
The Connecticut Department of Correction and the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles have their command posts in Wethersfield. The United States Postal Service operates the Wethersfield Post Office, zip code 06109. Wethersfield has as police station and 3 volunteer fire stations.
The year 2003 marked the formal 200th Anniversary of the Wethersfield Volunteer Fire Department.
Wethersfield has the earliest volunteer fire business in Connecticut, and in New England.
Greater Hartford's primary fitness of enhance transit is presently Connecticut Transit (CT Transit), a Connecticut Department of Transportation-owned bus service operating routes throughout the New Haven, Stamford, Hartford and other metro areas.
Wethersfield is served by route numbers 20, 43, 47, 53, 55, 61, and 91. Main Street in Old Wethersfield Wethersfield was once connected to Hartford by streetcar and by passenger service on the Valley Railroad.
The Wethersfield enhance school fitness encompasses Wethersfield High School, Silas Deane Middle School, and five elementary schools: Highcrest School, Charles Wright School, Emerson-Williams School, Alfred W.
Wethersfield is also the home of Corpus Christi School, which is a Catholic school of approximately 400 students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.
Three buildings in Wethersfield are designated as historic landmarks by the National Register of Historic Places: In 1970, Old Wethersfield, the precinct bounded by Hartford, the barns tracks, I-91 and Rocky Hill, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
This is the biggest historic precinct in Connecticut, with two square miles including 1,100 buildings, many dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Wethersfield Cove Heritage Way a "linear park" and multi-use path that joins Wethersfield's open areas and recreation facilities Wethersfield Historical Society The historic First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is the home of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival USA, a primary national competition for young organists held annually since 1998.
Actor-turned-author Thomas Tryon used his native Wethersfield as the setting for his action/romance novels The Wings of the Morning and In the Fire of Spring, as well as a mystery/horror novel and film The Other.
The short film Disneyland Dream features the Barstow family from Wethersfield, including footage of their neighborhood.
The novel Parrot and Olivier in America by two-time Booker Prize-winning Australian author Peter Carey was largely set in the town of Wethersfield.
John Deming (c.1615 1705), a founder of Wethersfield and an initial patentee of Connecticut Colony Richard Treat (or Trott) (1584 1669), an initial settler of Wethersfield and a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut Connecticut Towns in the Order of their Establishment, Secretary of the State of Connecticut.
Official Web Site of the Town of Wethersfield a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Wethersfield town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
Town Profile: Wethersfield.
The Connecticut Economic Digest, Connecticut Department of Labor, January 2004 Virtual Tour of the Connecticut Supreme Court Courtroom.
Wethersfield Volunteer Fire Dept a b c Wethersfield, CT, and Onions, Yankee Magazine, August 1993 Connecticut seed business Comstock, Ferre & Co.
Wethersfield: The Cradle of American Seed Companies, Wethersfield Historical Society, January 23, 2012 The Wethersfield Meteorite, Yale Peabody Museum.
The Wethersfield Meteorites, Wethersfield Historical Society, October 24, 2011 Connecticut Department of Correction, 24 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109.
Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, 60 State Street, Wethersfield, CT 06161.
United States Postal Service, 67 Beaver Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109.
Wethersfield Fire Department.
Routes & Schedules, Connecticut Transit.
They Even Survived Rocks on the Track, Wethersfield Historical Society, August 23, 2012 Corpus Christi School, Wethersfield CT Great Meadows Conservation Trust, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill and Glastonbury CT Introduction to Heritage Way, Wethersfield CT Keeney Memorial Culture Center, Wethersfield CT Wethersfield Historical Society, Wethersfield CT Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center, Wethersfield CT Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, First Church of Christ, Wethersfield Foote Family, Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn., and his Descendants.
General Samuel Blatchley Webb, Town of Claverack, NY.
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Wethersfield.
Town of Wethersfield official website Wethersfield Library Wethersfield Historical Society Historic Wethersfield Tourism Commission Tocqueville in Wethersfield - Segment from C-SPAN's Alexis de Tocqueville Tour Wethersfield Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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