West Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford County

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West Hartford is a town in Hartford County in the U.S. state of Connecticut with 65,200 inhabitants ( 2004). The geographic coordinates are: 41.77 ° North, 72.75 ° West. The metropolitan area has a size of 57.9 km ².

History

In the years 1672-1677 the boundaries of the " West Division " of the community Hartford with Quaker Lane, Mountain Road, as well as the communities of Bloomfield and Newington was staked. Later still parts of Hartford and Farmington were added. The first settlers, Stephen Hosmer, settled in 1679 on the territory of the present district of West Hartford down where he built a mill on the brook trout ( Trout Brook ).

The West Division of Hartford in 1711 to the parish ( West Division Parish or West Society). 1806, the district was renamed by the state legislature of Connecticut in "West Hartford ". 1854 West Hartford was finally cleaved from Hartford and registered as an independent municipality in the parish register. In 2004, the community celebrated with a feast month its 150th anniversary.

How many places to this area lived the community for many years mainly by agriculture. Over time, the community developed into an affluent suburb of Hartford.

Train

  • Aiken Elementary School
  • Braeburn Elementary School
  • Bugbee Elementary School
  • Charter Oak Elementary School
  • Louise Duffy Elementary School
  • Morley Elementary School
  • Norfeldt Elementary School
  • Smith Elementary School
  • Webster Hill Elementary School
  • Whiting Lane Elementary School
  • Wolcott Elementary School
  • King Philip Middle School
  • Sedgwick Middle School
  • Bristow Middle School
  • Conard High School
  • Hall High School
  • American School for the Deaf

Further education institutions

  • University of Hartford
  • St. Joseph College
  • University of Connecticut

Demographics

Personalities

  • Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923), Chemist
  • Roger Sperry (1913-1994), a neuroscientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 1981

Sons and daughters of the town

  • John Franklin Enders (1897-1985), bacteriologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 1954
  • Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008), Professor of Meteorology
  • Peter Paige (born 1969 ), actor
  • Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), politician
  • William Thompson Sedgwick (1855-1921), Professor of Public Health
  • Noah Webster (1758-1843), lexicographer, spelling reformer, journalist, translator and writer
  • Place in Connecticut
  • Location in North America
  • Hartford County
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