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The center of the district with the church in the background. Ellington Center Historic District is an 80-acre (32 ha) historic district in the town of Ellington, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The historic district encompasses most of Ellington Center, including the town green and buildings ...
09-25360. GNIS feature ID. 0212330. Website. www .ellington-ct .gov. Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Ellington was incorporated in May 1786, from East Windsor. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 16,426.
Although Connecticut tornadoes are typically weak, isolated events can be violent. Three tornadoes of F4 intensity have affected the state in its history, as well as at least 27 tornadoes of F2 intensity or greater. Outbreaks of three or more tornadoes in a single day occurred in 1786, 1787, 1878, 1973, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2018, 2020, and 2021.
November 15, 1990. The Hall Memorial Library in Ellington, Connecticut was built in 1903 and was the first free public library in the town. [2] It was designed by New York City architect Wilson Potter . It is a contributing building in the Ellington Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
July 31, 1986. Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River. The castle was designed and built by William Gillette (1853–1937), an American actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on stage. Gillette lived here from 1919 until ...
Levi Wells (1734–1803) was an American officer in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, and a Connecticut politician. Wells was born in 1734 in Colchester, Connecticut Colony. He served as an officer in the French and Indian War, and following the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, was commissioned as captain of ...
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained control of the region in ...
John Hall Brockway (January 31, 1801 – July 29, 1870) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Biography [ edit ] Born the son of the Reverend Diodate and Miranda Hall Brockway in Ellington, Connecticut , Brockway pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College , New Haven, Connecticut , in 1820, at the age of twenty.