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3 Whitward Pl
Windsor, CT (in city)
2 Bed, 2 Bath
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Windsor, CT (in city)
2 Bed, 2+ Bath
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42 Grove St
Windsor Locks, CT (4.5 miles)
3 Bed, 1 Bath
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1550 sq.ft.
12 Cherry St
Windsor Locks, CT (5.1 miles)
3 Bed, 1 Bath
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1325 sq.ft.
8 Acorn Dr
Windsor Locks, CT (5.6 miles)
3 Bed, 2+ Bath
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1405 sq.ft.
7f Reggie Way
Broad Brook, CT (6.1 miles)
2 Bed, 2+ Bath
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Local city information for Windsor, CT
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.
Poquonock is a northern area of Windsor that has its own zip code (06064) for PO Box purposes. 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 Kennedy Industry Park and Kennedy Business Park, both near Bradley International Airport and the Addison Road Industrial Park.
During the first part of the Seventeenth Century, the Pequot and Mohawk Nations had been at war, catching the Podunk Indians in the crossfire and forcing them to pay tribute to the Pequots, who claimed their land. Eventually, the Podunk invited a small party of settlers from Plymouth, Massachusetts to provide a mediating force between the other tribes, in exchange granting 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 up river, at the end of waters navigable by ship and above the Dutch fort at Hartford, offering an advantageous location to trade with the Indians before the Dutch. (The Sicaog tribe had made a similar offer to mediate to the Dutch in New Amsterdam, but they had declined to send settlers, their interest in Connecticut having been limited to the fur trade.)
In 1635, 60 or more people led by the Reverends Maverick and Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts, where they had first settled after arriving in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England. Reverend Warham promptly renamed the settlement Dorchester. During the next few years, more settlers arrived from Dorchester, Massachusetts 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 , named after the town of Windsor England on the River Thames. As with all such names dating back many centuries, there are many claims as to the derivation of the name. These include a corruption of the Saxon words 'windlass Oran,' meaning a bank of a river with a windlass. From Windlesore, or 'Winding Shores,' where boats were pulled by windlass ('windles') up the river. From 'winding' meaning 'meandering' shores. And from 'a sore wind,' referring to the wind that blew across the mound upon which Windsor Castle, England was built. But the latter fails on chronological grounds.
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).
The first "highway" in Connecticut opened in 1638 between Windsor and Hartford. As other towns were settled further up the Connecticut river, such as Springfield, Massachusetts and Northampton, Massachusetts, trading routes were extended to them.
The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway connected with the Conn. Co. in Windsor Center until 1925. Buses replaced trolleys between Rainbow (a northern section of Windsor) and Windsor Center in 1930; cars continued to run from Windsor to Hartford until 1940.
These original Windsor settlers have many descendants around the country and beyond. Many are members of The Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor (DFAW).
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