About Windham County
Located in the north eastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut The entire county is within the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, as designated by the National Park Service.
Connecticut (CT)
Windam County borders Tolland County to the west, New London County to the South, the state of Rhode Island to the east and the state of Massachusetts to the north.
Real Estate and Community Information on Towns in Windham County Connecticut:
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Eastford Hampton Killingly Plainfield |
Pomfret Putnam Scotland Sterling |
Thompson Windham Woodstock |
History:
Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on May 12, 1726, by an act of the Connecticut General Court. The act establishing the county states:
That the west bounds of the town of Lebanon, the northbounds of Coventry, the north bounds of Mansfield till itmeet with the southwest bounds of Ashford, the west boundsof Ashford, the east bounds of Stafford, the Massachusettsline on the north, and Rhode Island line on the east, the northbounds of Preston, and north bounds of Norwich, containingthe towns of Windham, Lebanon, Plainfield, Canterbury,Mansfield, Coventry, Pomfrett, Killingly, Ashford, Voluntownand Mortlake, shall be one entire county, and called by thename of County of Windham.In May 1749, the town of Woodstock, formerly New Roxbury, Worcester County Massachusetts, was unilaterally annexed by Connecticut and assigned to Windham County. In 1785, the town of Union (incorporated in 1734) was transferred to the newly-formed Tolland County. Over the next century, Windham County would lose several towns to Tolland and New London counties: Coventry to Tolland in 1786, Lebanon to New London in 1824, Columbia and Mansfield to Tolland in 1827, and Voluntown to New London in 1881. The final boundary adjustment occurred on April 7, 1885, when the boundary dispute between the towns of Windham and Mansfield was resolved.
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