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12 unusual facts about Wethersfield


Bocking Windmill

French sold the mill in 1774 to Bartholomew Brown, of Wethersfield for £170.

Connecticut's 28th assembly district

The district consists of most of the town of Wethersfield, which is divided between the 28th assembly district and the 29th assembly district.

Connecticut's 29th assembly district

The district consists of the town of Rocky Hill, the historical base of the district in which both representatives since 1975 have lived, and parts of the towns of Newington, which is split between the 24th, 27th and 29th districts, and Wethersfield, which is split between the 28th and 29th districts.

Elisha Williams

After his marriage he studied law, and was a member of the Connecticut legislature from Wethersfield for five sessions, the first in 1717; he studied divinity with his father and was ordained a clergyman in 1722, and served the church at Wethersfield until 1726, when he became fourth Rector of Yale College, serving in that capacity for thirteen years.

John F. O'Ryan

In 1952 a New York National Guard training area in Wethersfield, New York was dedicated in his honor, Camp O'Ryan.

Jonathan L. Foote

He is a direct descendant of Elizabeth Deming and Nathaniel Foote, who settled Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1636.

Mill Pond Falls

At that time, Newington was still a part of the town of Wethersfield and its economy was based on the production of pipestaves, metal rings that cover whiskey barrels.

Nick Bourne

On 9 September 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth, of Aberystwyth in the County of Ceredigion and of Wethersfield in the County of Essex.

Seal of Connecticut

The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".

The best answer today is that the grapevines should be taken to represent the three original colonies of Connecticut: (Hartford), Quinnipiac (New-Haven), and Saybrook, though it can also represent the first three settlements of the Connecticut colony proper- Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, as New Haven and Saybrook were reluctant additions to Connecticut.

Tony DiCicco

Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, DiCicco is 1966 graduate of Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he lettered in soccer, baseball and basketball.

Weathersfield, Vermont

The Connecticut town had taken its name, in turn, from Wethersfield, a village in the English county of Essex, the name of which derived from "wether", or in Old English wither, meaning a castrated lamb.


Connecticut Route 3

It originally ran from West Street/Berlin Road in Cromwell, which was part of Route 72 at the time (now Route 372), to the Silas Deane Highway (Route 99) in Wethersfield.

Edwin H. May, Jr.

May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the Travelers Championship) at the Wethersfield Country Club.

Flatbush Avenue Connector

In 1963, however, the state proposed the corridor as the Cedar Ridge Connector with no number, leading from its current terminus at I-84 to U.S. 5/Route 15 in Wethersfield.

Scammell's 1781 Light Infantry Regiment

During this time Washington had gone to Wethersfield Connecticut and met for five days with Rochambeau to discuss the opportunities for a campaign against the British.