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 Winchester Historical Marker - Winsted in Winchester, CT Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 55.263 W 073° 03.604
18T E 660862 N 4642830
The Winchester Historical Marker is located on the Winsted Common in the City of Winsted which is located within the Town of Winchester, CT.
Waymark Code: WM16EBF
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2022
Views: 0
A two sided historical marker gives the history of Winchester, CT.
The marker is inscribed:
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
WINCHESTER
In 1686 the General Court of the Connecticut
Colony granted to the Towns of Hartford and
Windsor "...lands on the north of Woodbury...
and on the west of ... Simsbury . . . to make a
plantation or villages thereon." Later (1732)
the Hartford proprietors, named in a patent
of 1729, executed a deed which provided for
division of the Hartford share, including the
part which became Winchester. The General
Assembly in May, 1786 authorized an ecclesias-
tical society, in Winchester township. The
meetinghouse was located neat, and a later
one on, the present Winchester Center Green.
Following petition by the society, the
General Assembly incorporated the Town of
Winchester in May, 1771
In 1778 the Assembly established the Ecclesi-
astical Society of Winsted (from Winchester
and Barkhamsted townships) on Old North Road,
but the opening of the Greenwoods Turnpike in
1799 from New Hartford to Sheffield brought a
great volume of traffic to the valleys.
(Continued on the other side)
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
WINCHESTER
(Continued from other side)
Settlers along the Still River erected a
second meetinghouse near the present Winsted
Green. The village of Winsted became an
incorporated borough in 1858, ? city in 1917.
Since the late 1700's the community of
Winchester/Winsted has thrived on a core of
industry: scythes, thread, clocks, electrical
items, ball bearings, and one of the few pin
factories of the 1800's in the United States/
David Austin at foot of Highland Lake,
Benjamin Jenkins and James Boyd built one of
the State's first scythe factories at Lake
and Meadow Streets in 1792. The Hoadleys and
Whitings founded a clock industry here in
1807, which became the Gilbert Clock Company
in 1871. Ribbon candy was invented in the
1880's in a local candy store. The Gilbert
School (1895) became the home of Northwestern
Connecticut Community College in 1965.
Erected by the Town of Winchester
the Winchester Historical Commission
and the Connecticut Historical Commission
1979
Marker Name: Winchester
Marker Type: Urban
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1979
Additional Information: Not listed
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