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| Connecticut (Tolland County), Coventry — Captain Nathan Hale Monument | | | Captain
Nathan Hale
1776
Born at Coventry
June 6, 1755
I only regret
that I have but one life
to lose
for my country
Died at New York
Sep 22, 1776 — Map (db m12219) | | Connecticut (Tolland County), Willington — This Edifice | | | 1727–1727. This edifice originally a Meeting House was donated by the Wilington Ecclesiastical Society to the Town of Willington for the use of the public and to perpetuate the memory of the forefathers and foremothers who with Christian fortitude endured the hardships of the wilderness to found a town and to establish a church. — Map (db m1623) | | Connecticut (Tolland County), Willington — Willington — Incorporated 1727 | | | In 1720 a party of eight men, originally from England, bought sixteen thousand acres in this region and called it Wellington. One of these, Roger Wolcott, subsequently became governor of Connecticut (1750–1754).
After a century of farming the town gradually expanded industrially until 1845 when it boasted a thread mill, a cotton mill, three silk factories, a scythe factory, four comb factories, button mils, and a glassworks (1815–1871) producing demijohns and flasks with . . . — Map (db m1622) |
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