Windsor Locks, Connecticut Windsor Locks, Connecticut The Windsor Locks Canal Company alongside the Enfield Falls Canal The Windsor Locks Canal Company alongside the Enfield Falls Canal Official seal of Windsor Locks, Connecticut Windsor Locks is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Windsor Locks is also the site of the New England Air Museum.
Located beside the Connecticut River and equidistant from the densely populated metros/cities of Springfield, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut, Windsor Locks is titled for a set of canal locks that opened in 1829.
Windsor Locks is situated just south of the first large falls in the Connecticut River, the Enfield Falls, which is the northernmost point that seagoing vessels can reach on the Connecticut River before transferring to lesser ships.
Originally part of Windsor, Windsor Locks broke off into its own settlement in 1854 after the grow Enfield Locks going around Enfield Falls which opened in 1829.
The town boundary between Windsor Locks and Windsor changed a several times and was altered with Windsor Locks being on the westbound side and the Windsor side on the eastbound side with the border on the median.
Windsor Locks has a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summer days to cold sometimes frigid winter evenings.
Summer in Windsor Locks can be hot with the average July temperature of 87 F (30.6 C) at daytime and 63 F (17.2 C) at eveningtime.
The hottest temperature at Windsor Locks was 103 F (39.4 C) on July 22, 2011 and the coldest recorded temperature was -26 F (-32 C) on January 22, 1961.
Average rainfall in Windsor Locks is 46.27 inches.
Until 2000, Windsor Locks was home to the earliest corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dexter Corporation.
The third division, Dexter Nonwoven Materials, positioned on the company's initial site in Windsor Locks, was sold to the Finnish Ahlstrom Paper Group.
In 2011, the Home and Personal Nonwovens division of Ahlstrom Windsor Locks was sold to Suominen Corporation, also headquartered in Finland.
In 1952 Hamilton Standard opened its airplane propeller plant in Windsor Locks.
In 1999, Hamilton Standard consolidated with Sundstrand Corporation to turn into Hamilton Sundstrand, which is headquartered in Windsor Locks.
On 19 September 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ceased operations at Windsor Locks and moved them to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Primary and secondary education falls under the supervision of "Windsor Locks Public Schools".
The Windsor Locks High School mascot is the Raider; the colors are maroon and white. For many years, Windsor Locks was known as Pine Meadow a section of neighboring Windsor.
In 1854, it was formally incorporated as Windsor Locks.
Windsor Locks won the Little League World Series in 1965. Windsor Locks claims that a Hessian soldier put up a Christmas tree in 1777 while imprisoned at the Noden-Reed House, thus making it the home of the first Christmas tree in New England.
Windsor Locks High School won the 2005 and 2006 Class S State Championships in baseball.
Windsor Locks High School won the 2001 basketball state championship.
Windsor Locks High School won the 1966 Class M State Championship indoor track Enfield Falls Canal along Connecticut River from Windsor Locks north to Suffield CT at a locale directly athwart the Connecticut River from Thompsonville (added May 22, 1976) Windsor Locks Passenger Station Main Street (added October 2, 1975) a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Windsor Locks town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
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