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Willimantic is a census-designated place located in Windham, Connecticut, United States. Previously organized as a city and later as a borough, Willimantic is currently one of two tax districts within the Town of Windham. Willimantic is located within Windham County and the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region.
Willimantic, city and principal community in the town (township) of Windham, Windham county, east-central Connecticut, U.S., at the junction of the Willimantic and Natchaug rivers. The site was settled about 1686 and developed because of the availability of waterpower for gristmills and sawmills.
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Mar 31, 2016 · The Bright Lights of Willimantic - Connecticut Explored. 0. Best Of, Connecticut History, Made in Connecticut, Notable Connecticans. Thread box, c. 1879. The center woodcut depicts Mill Number Two, where the Willimantic Linen Company’s first experiments with the Brush electric arc light took place in 1879.
Nov 10, 2022 · No. 2, mill and dam, Willimantic, CT - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. By Donald W. Rogers. The huge granite mill that still straddles the river in Willimantic, Connecticut, today symbolizes a cotton thread factory that long dominated the history of that city. The name on that building, “American Thread Company ...
Although there is little known about Willimantic and Northeast Connecticut prior to the 1660's, the Willimantic River and its confluence with the Shetucket might have been Native boundaries, perhaps between the Mohegan and Nipmuc groups, with current day Willimantic likely inhabited by the Nipmuc people.
Sleep. Go next. Willimantic is in Mystic-Eastern, Connecticut. Understand. Willimantic is a borough in Windham County, United States. It has had a mill city culture, like many other towns in the area, the mill was the center of town for a very long time. Get in. 41°43′0″N 72°13′0″W. Map of Willimantic.
Dec 7, 2015 · Willimantic, which is located in the town of Windham, hugs Mansfield and Coventry, two quiet, quaint towns located in what was formerly known as Tolland County. According to the 2010 census, the population of Willimantic was 17,737 (United States Census 2010). Small and hardly noticeable, for the majority of my life, I rarely dared to enter it.
