Windsor, Connecticut Windsor, Connecticut Official seal of Windsor, Connecticut Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state.
The populace of Windsor was 29,044 at the 2010 census. Poquonock /p kw n k/ is a northern region of Windsor that has its own zip code (06064) for post-office box purposes. Other unincorporated areas in Windsor include Rainbow and Hayden Station in the north, and Wilson and Deerfield in the south.
The Day Hill Road region is known as Windsor's Corporate Area, although other centers of company include New England Tradeport, Kennedy Industry Park and Kennedy Business Park, all near Bradley International Airport and the Addison Road Industrial Park.
3 Windsor today In exchange they granted them a plot of territory at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River.
In 1634, a party of around 30 citizens , sponsored by Sir Richard Saltonstall, and led by the Stiles brothers, Francis, John and Henry, settled in the Windsor area.
WIndsor Town Hall, positioned on Broad Street.
In 1637, the colony's General Court changed the name of the settlement from Dorchester to Windsor, titled after the town of Windsor, Berkshire, on the River Thames in England.
Several suburbs that border Windsor were once entirely or partially part of Windsor, including Windsor Locks, South Windsor, East Windsor, Ellington (which was later part of East Windsor), and Bloomfield (originally called "Wintonbury", a composite of the town names Windsor, Farmington and Simsbury). The first "highway" in the Connecticut Colony opened in 1638 between Windsor and Hartford.
During a grain famine, the founder of Springfield, William Pynchon, was given authority by Windsor and Hartford to negotiate a price for grain for the three settlements with the natives.
Windsor's cattle were starving, however, and the people of Hartford were furious.
With Windsor's consent, Hartford commissioned the famous Indian fighter John Mason to travel to Springfield with "money in one hand and a sword in the other" to threaten the natives, and thereby force the grain trade.
After "negotiating the trade", Mason refused to share the grain with Springfield, and, to add further insult, insisted that Springfield pay a tax when sailing ships passed Windsor.
Windsor played a neutral part in the colonial rivalry between Hartford and Springfield; however, Windsor's direct border with both settlements caused many discussions about whether to align with Massachusetts or Connecticut.
Ultimately, Windsor sided with Connecticut. The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway, a street car, connected with the Connecticut Company in Windsor Center until 1925.
Buses replaced street cars between Rainbow (a northern section of Windsor) and Windsor Center in 1930.
Trolley cars continued to run from Windsor to Hartford until 1940. The initial Windsor pioneer have many descendants around the nation and beyond.
Many are members of the Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor (DFAW).
The Wolcott House, Windsor, early drawing The Joseph Kesselring stage play and Frank Capra movie Arsenic and Old Lace was inspired by actual affairs that took place in a three-story brick home on Prospect Street, just off the north end of the Windsor green.
On historic Palisado Avenue, one can find the First Church in Windsor, Congregational, and adjoining graveyard. Across the street on the Palisado Green stands a statue of John Mason, a founder of Windsor and a colonial prestige in the Pequot War.
Nearby stands Windsor's earliest structure, the Capt.
Windsor War Memorial, sculpted by Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1928), Windsor Town Green at Broad Street. Windsor is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places: Giles Barber House - 411-413 Windsor Ave.
George Loomis House - 1003 Windsor Avenue (added 1988) Gordon Loomis House - 1021 Windsor Avenue (added 1988) House - 1053 Windsor Avenue (added 1988) James Loomis House - 881 Windsor Avenue (added 1988) Approximately 34,000 acres (140 km2) of territory in Connecticut is veiled by Windsor Soil, titled after the town. The movie Parrish, starring Troy Donahue and Karl Malden, was set and filmed in the tobacco farms of Windsor.
Windsor today The enhance schools in Windsor are a part of the Windsor Public Schools: One enhance school for pre-school and kindergarten: Roger Wolcott Early Childhood Center (No longer in operation after school consolidation, kids now sent to in precinct schools, Poquonock or Ellsworth.) Four enhance elementary schools: Oliver Ellsworth Primary School, Clover Street Intermediate School, John F.
One enhance middle school (Grades 6 8): Sage Park Middle School One enhance high school (Grades 9 12): Windsor High School The magnet schools in Windsor are managed by the Capital Region Education Council: There are two enhance libraries: Windsor Public Library and Wilson Public Library.
Loomis Chaffee, the well-known college preliminary school, is positioned in Windsor, on a 320-acre (130 ha) ground at the confluence of the Connecticut and Farmington rivers.
The initial Loomis Homestead, assembled by Joseph Loomis in 1640 and one of the earliest buildings in the United States, stands on the school's ground athwart the street from the current school head's residence.
Madina Academy, Connecticut's first full-time Islamic School, offers preschool through 12th undertaking Saint Gabriel's School is a private school that teaches kindergarten through eighth grade. Trinity Christian School is a private school that teaches kindergarten through seventh grade. Praise, Power, Prayer Christian School is a private school that teaches kindergarten through twelfth grade. Windsor Meadows State Park is in the southeast corner of town and runs along the shore of the Connecticut River.
Keney Park, in the south, straddles Windsor and Hartford; it includes cricket fields and a golf course. Northwest Park, Windsor's biggest park, is positioned in the northwest corner of Windsor.
Stroh Park is off Route 159 near Wilson Congregational Church towards the south end of town.
The Troy Donahue movie Parrish was filmed on Windsor's tobacco "plantations" in 1961. The First Church in Windsor, United Church of Christ Windsor Amtrak Station, in the former Hartford & New Haven Railroad Depot Windsor, Connecticut Amtrak station Bradley International Airport, which serves Greater Hartford as well as the greater Pioneer Valley, is positioned in the adjoining town of Windsor Locks to the north.
Connecticut Transit: There are eight routes serving Windsor: 15, 30, 32, 34, 36, 40, 54, and 92.
The 30-Bradley Flyer route bus runs between Hartford and Bradley International Airport through Windsor.
The 32, 34, and 36 routes run between Windsor Center and Downtown Hartford along Windsor and Poquonock Avenues.
The 92 route provides crosstown trips through Windsor beginning at Copaco in Bloomfield and ending at the Shoppes at Buckland Hills in Manchester.
Windsor Art Center, in the former Hartford & New Haven Freight Depot Interstate 91 has 7 exits in Windsor, including an High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lane traveling north and south between Hartford and the Bradley Airport Connector (Route 20).
Interstate 291 (Connecticut) begins in Windsor with 3 exits; it joins Interstate 91 with Interstate 84.
A rail line runs alongside to the Connecticut River through Windsor, with one stop for Amtrak trains in Windsor center.
Sidings at Windsor station allowed cars to be spotted at the freight home and on the Loomis trestle just to the south.
Following a fatal undertaking crossing accident, a three-track-wide plate girder bridge was installed to carry tracks over Palisado Ave in Windsor center.
Senior Transportation services are available to Dial-A-Ride patrons (adults 60 and over and those receiving Social Security Disability benefits) and Windsor's Caring Connection Adult Day Health Center clients.
Windsor Police Department is positioned at the Windsor Safety Complex, in the middle of town, next to I-91, on Bloomfield Avenue. Windsor Volunteer Fire Department has 5 stations: Windsor Station (at the Windsor Safety Complex), Wilson Station, Poquonock Station, Rainbow Road Station and Hayden Station. Windsor Volunteer Ambulance is also positioned at the Windsor Safety Complex. According to Windsor's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city were: 5 Town of Windsor 809 Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the United States, a drafter of the Constitution and American beginning father, was born in Windsor 1949), TV sports announcer who serves as the lap-by-lap voice of FOX Sports' NASCAR coverage, served four propel terms on the Windsor Town Council Oliver Wolcott, American beginning father, born in Windsor Captain John Bissell Memorial Bridge spanning the Connecticut River between the suburbs of Windsor and South Windsor Windsor's highest point is on Day Hill at 230 feet (70 m) above sea level. Windsor's lowest point is on the Connecticut River at 5 feet (1.5 m) above sea level.
The Connecticut River defines Windsor's east border.
The town/city of Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, is adjoining to Windsor to the south.
The town of Windsor Locks, home of Bradley International Airport, is adjoining to Windsor to the north.
Prior to its incorporation in 1854, it was known as the Pine Meadow section of Windsor.
The suburbs of East Windsor and South Windsor are on the east side of the Connecticut River.
The Farmington River joins the Connecticut River in Windsor.
The Farmington River is dammed in the northwest corner of Windsor to form the 234-acre (0.95 km2) Rainbow Reservoir. Windsor Center East Granby, Connecticut Windsor Locks, Connecticut East Windsor, Connecticut Bloomfield, Connecticut South Windsor, Connecticut Windsor, Connecticut Windsor was one of a handful of suburbs in the nation where, in the 2000 United States Census, median income for black homeholds ($64,159) was larger than white homeholds ($63,624).
Windsor High School has 1,471 students enrolled.
Minor party registrations in Windsor include Green, Libertarian, and Working Families.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor, Connecticut "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Windsor town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
Van Dusen, Albert "Connecticut" Random House, 1961, pp 19-20 "Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 1, Page 7".
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Dixon, Ken, "Music Hall of Fame proposed for state", article in Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 26, 2007 ("Al Anderson, longtime guitarist/songwriter for the modern band NRBQ Anderson, who interval up in Windsor") a b c "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Windsor town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
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"Windsor's Diversity Pays Off" Stan Simpson, Hartford Courant, 12/6/6 Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Windsor.
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