Windsor, Connecticut

Windsor, Connecticut
—  Town  —

Seal
Motto: First in Connecticut, First for its Citizens
Location in Hartford County, Connecticut
Coordinates:
NECTA Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford
Region Capitol Region
Settled 1633
Named 1637
Government
 • Type Council-manager[1]
 • Town manager Peter Souza
 • Town council Donald S. Trinks,
Mayor;
Al Simon,
Deputy Mayor;
Robert B. Gegetskas II;
William H. Herzfeld;
Donald A. Jepsen, Jr.;
Ronald Eleveld;
Randy McKenney;
Matthew Marci;
Robert Rispoli
Area
 • Total 31.1 sq mi (80.5 km2)
 • Land 29.6 sq mi (76.7 km2)
 • Water 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km2)
Elevation 55 ft (17.37 m)
Population (2005)[2]
 • Total 28,778
 • Density 972/sq mi (375/km2)
Time zone Eastern (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern (UTC-4)
ZIP code 06095
Area Code 860
FIPS code 09-87000
GNIS feature ID 0212354
Website www.townofwindsorct.com
Elevation noted at Town Hall.[3][4]

Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population was estimated at 28,778 in 2005.[2]

Poquonock is a northern area of Windsor that has its own zip code (06064) for PO Box purposes.[5] Other areas in Windsor, which are not incorporated, include Rainbow and Hayden Station in the north, and Wilson and Deerfield in the south.

The Day Hill Road area is known as Windsor's Corporate Area, although other centers of business include New England Tradeport, Kennedy Industry Park and Kennedy Business Park, all near Bradley International Airport and the Addison Road Industrial Park.

Contents

History

The coastal areas and riverways were traditional areas of settlement by various cultures of indigenous peoples, who had been in the region for thousands of years. They relied on the rivers for fishing, water and transportation. Before European contact, the historic Pequot and Mohegan tribes had been one Algonquian-speaking people. After they separated, they became competitors and traditional enemies in the Connecticut region.

During the first part of the 17th century, the Pequot and Mohegan Nations had been at war. The Podunk were forced to pay tribute to the more powerful Pequot, who claimed their land. Eventually, the Podunk invited a small party of settlers from Plymouth, Massachusetts to settle as a mediating force between the other tribes. In exchange they granted them a plot of land at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River. After Edward Winslow came from Plymouth to inspect the land, William Holmes led a small party, arriving at the site on September 26, 1633 where they founded a trading post.

Native Americans referred to the area as Matianuck. It was about 50 miles (80 km) up river, at the end of waters navigable by ship and above the Dutch fort at Hartford, offering an advantageous location for the English to trade with the Indians before they reached the Dutch. (The Sicaog tribe had made a similar offer to mediate to the Dutch in New Amsterdam. New Netherland had far fewer European settlers than New England and were not in a position to take up the opportunity.)

In 1634, a party of around 30 people, sponsored by Sir Richard Saltonstall, and led by the Stiles brothers, Francis, John and Henry settled in the Windsor area. Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company acknowledged in a letter to Sir Richard Saltonstall that the Stiles party was, in fact, the first group to settle Connecticut.

In 1635, 60 or more people, led by the Reverends Maverick and Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had arrived in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England and settled in Dorchester.[6] Reverend Warham promptly renamed the settlement Dorchester. During the next few years, more settlers arrived from Dorchester, outnumbering and soon displacing the original Plymouth contingent, who mostly returned to Plymouth.

In 1637, the colony's General Court changed the name of the settlement from Dorchester to Windsor,[7] named after the town of Windsor England on the River Thames.

Several towns 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).[8]

The first "highway" in the Connecticut Colony opened in 1638 between Windsor and Hartford. Two years later, the highway was extended north to the 1636 settlement at Springfield, and thus the three settlements that came to dominate the region for much of colonial history were connected. In 1648, an event took place that would forever change the boundaries of the Connecticut River Valley. During a grain famine, the founder of Springfield, William Pynchon, was given consent by Windsor and Hartford to negotiate a price for grain for the three settlements with the Natives. First, the Natives refused to sell grain at the usual market price, and then refused to sell it at "a reasonable price." Pynchon refused to buy it, attempting to teach the Natives a peaceful lesson about integrity and reliability. Windsor's cattle were starving, however, and the citizens 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. The Natives capitulated and ultimately sold their grain. After "negotiating the trade," Mason refused the share the grain with Springfield, and to add further insult, insisted that Springfield pay a tax when sailing ships past Windsor. Outraged, Springfield forever sided with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a faraway, theocracy based in Boston, rather than with the Connecticut Colony, which was much closer geographically and far more compatible ideologically. Windsor played a neutral role 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.[9] [10]

The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway, a trolley, connected with the Connecticut Company in Windsor Center until 1925. Buses replaced trolleys between Rainbow (a northern section of Windsor) and Windsor Center in 1930. Trolley cars continued to run from Windsor to Hartford until 1940.[11]

The original Windsor settlers have many descendants around the country and beyond. Many are members of The Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor (DFAW).

Other points of interest

On historic Palisado Avenue, one can find the First Church In Windsor, Congregational and adjacent graveyard.[12]

Across the street on the Palisado green stands a statue of John Mason (a founder of Windsor and colonial leader in the Pequot War). The historic plaque also lists and honors Robert Seeley, his second in command.

Further north is the home of Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.[13]

The town center is well-planned in comparison to many of the others in the Greater Hartford area. It has a relative diversity of chains and local shops, as well as a recently restored Amtrak train station dating to the 1850s. The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut is located in Windsor.[14]

Historic sites

Windsor is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:[15]

Connecticut Shade Tobacco

Tobacco farming in Connecticut has a long history. When the first settlers came to the valley in the 1630s, tobacco was already being grown by the native population. By 1700, tobacco was being exported via the Connecticut River to European ports. The use of Connecticut tobacco as a cigar wrapper leaf began in the 1820s. By the 1830s, tobacco farmers were experimenting with different seeds and processing techniques.[17]

Area farmers grew tobacco for the two outside layers of cigars, the binder and the wrapper. A tobacco leaf type named Shoestring, then Broadleaf and Havana Seed were used. In the late 19th century a fine grained leaf type imported from Sumatra began to replace the wrapper from the Connecticut River valley. The tobacco farmers matched the Sumatran leaf by making shade tents of cloth to cut sunlight and raise humidity. The first tent was raised in 1900 on River Street in Windsor.[18] Windsor tobacco leaves are highly prized by fine cigar makers, and are used as the cigar's outer wrapping. The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods company including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.[17]

The technique of growing shade tobacco has changed little in the past hundred years. To form the shade tents, a tobacco field is set with posts in a grid layout. Wires are stretched from post to post, and a light, durable fabric (once cotton but now a synthetic fiber) is tied across them and draped along the sides. For example, twenty posts in four rows of five will create twelve square cells in three rows of four. Under the tents the sunlight is soft and diffused the air is humid and the ambient temperature is slightly warmer than outside. Filtering the sun produces a thinner and more elastic tobacco leaf that cures to a lighter, even color often desired by the Cuban and Dominican cigar producers.

At its height, there was greater than 15,000 acres (61 km2) of tobacco being cultivated under shade in the Connecticut River valley. Currently, the amount of tobacco being grown in the valley is just over a steady 2,000 acres (8.1 km2).[18] Approximately 34,000 acres (140 km2) of land in Connecticut is covered by Windsor Soil, named after the town.[19]

The movie "Parrish", starring Troy Donoahue and Karl Malden, was set in the tobacco farms of Windsor, and filmed here in 1961.

The Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum[18] containing authentic farming implements and tools can be found at Northwest Park located in Windsor.[20]

Windsor today

Education

Parks

Events

Entertainment

Religion

  • Hopewell Baptist Church
  • Windsor Home Church
  • Pilgrim Way Baptist Church
  • Grace Baptist Church
  • Greater St. Paul's Baptist Church of Deliverance
  • Saint Gabriel's Church, Roman Catholic
  • Saint Gertrude's Church, Roman Catholic
  • Saint Joseph's Church, Roman Catholic
  • The First Church in Windsor, United Church of Christ
  • Poquonock Community Church, Independent Congregational
  • Wilson Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
  • Holy Zion Church of the Jubilee
  • Mount Carmel Christian Ministries
  • Faith Community Church
  • Grace Episcopal Church
  • Archer Memorial AME Zion Church
  • Trinity United Methodist Church
  • Christ the King Lutheran Church
  • Congregation Beth Ahm, Jewish
  • River of Life Christian Church
  • Tohrah Judea
  • Connecticut Valley Church of Christ
  • Praise Power & Prayer Christian Temple
  • Islamic Center of Connecticut

Transportation

Public safety

Notable residents

Geography

Windsor's highest point is on Day Hill at 230 feet (70 m).[43]

Windsor's lowest point is at the Connecticut River shore at 5 feet (2 m).[43] The Connecticut River defines Windsor's east border. The city of Hartford, the Capital of Connecticut, is adjacent to Windsor to the south. The town of Windsor Locks, home of Bradley International Airport, is adjacent to Windsor to the north. Prior to its incorporation in 1854, it was known as the Pine Meadow section of Windsor. The towns of East Windsor and South Windsor are on east side of the Connecticut River, which defines Windsor's eastern border. The town of Bloomfield is to the west. The town of East Granby is to the northwest.

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.[44]

Principal communities

  • Deerfield
  • Hayden Station
  • Poquonock
  • Rainbow
  • Wilson
  • Windsor Center

Demographics

Population

Year Population
1850 3294
1900 3614
1950 11833
2000 28237 [45]

Population density was 953.0 inhabitants per square mile (368.0/km²).

In the town the population was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.5 males. 7,604 families residing in the town. 10,900 housing units at an average density of 367.9 per square mile (142.0/km²). 10,577 households out of which 32.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% were non-families.

23.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.10.

Income

In the 2000 U.S. Census, median income for a household in the town was $64,137, and median income for a family was $73,064. ($76,637 and $84,510, respectively, as of a 2007 estimate[46]). Males had a median income of $45,443 versus $37,476 for females (2000).

Windsor was one of a handful of towns in the country where, in the United States Census, 2000, median income for black households ($64,159) was larger than white households ($63,624). Asian households had a median income of $75,716. Hispanic or Latino (of any race) households have a median income of $69,808.[47]

The per capita income for the town was $27,633 (risen to $33,242, in 2007 census estimate[46]). About 2.2% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.3% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.

Diversity

Racial makeup of the town was

Windsor High School has 1471 students enrolled and demographics for 2004–2005 were:

Politics

Connecticut House of Representatives:

Connecticut Senate:

United States House of Representatives:

Voter registration and party enrolment as of October 26, 2010[56]
Party Active voters Inactive voters Total voters
  Democratic 9,431 342 9,773
  Republican 2,861 149 3,010
  Unaffiliated 7,443 450 7,893
  Minor Parties 54 1 55
Total 19,789 942 20,731

Minor party registrations in Windsor include Green, Libertarian, and Working Families.

See also

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