![]() ![]() One of the first textile mills in America began operation in 1780 in Westchester. Its population was recorded as 2,300 inhabitants and by 1782 grew to be 3,300. By 1714, there were nearly 50 families in town.īy 1756, Colchester was one of the thriving rural towns in the Colony. ![]() This street was nearly 200 feet wide and is now the southern end of Old Hebron Road. By 1706, the first street was laid out and was named Town Street. Within a few years, several grist mills and saw mills were built to provide grain and lumber. Early in the 17th century, Nathaniel Foote’s grandfather emigrated from Colchester, England to America joining a group of early English settlers with a vision to lay out a new plantation in a large tract of virgin wilderness.Ĭolchester’s early history, like many towns in New England, centered around the church parish and in 1703 the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut ruled that the settlement could organize a church body here known as Colchester. The Town of Colchester, Connecticut was founded in 1698, at a point just north of the present Town Green, at Jeremiah’s Farm on land purchased by Nathaniel Foote from the Sachem of the Mohegan Indians. A Photographic History of Merchant's Row 1873-1949Ĭolchester History Colchester History Museum More.Colchester & Westchester District Schools in the Late 19th & Early 20th Centuries.Earl Holmes Photographs of 1930's Colchester.The Discovery and Excavation of the Gershom Bulkeley Tomb.The Ballard House, Now the Colchester History Museum.Colchester Burying Ground Video, Tour and Map. ![]()
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