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$74,270
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Manchester, CT - History
We would like to provide the residents of Manchester a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Manchester Home page. The Manchester Home page provides as much information as possible on Manchester. Knowing Manchester’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Manchester’s Home page, you will also find Manchester’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Manchester has a population of 57701. 47.7% of Manchester’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 45.2% of Manchester is married and 53.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $180,447, and the average rent is $1,255. Household median income in Manchester is $74,270, and the individual median income is $40,035. Manchester’s Ethnic is the following: White(59.9%), Black(16.4%), Hispanic(14.7%), Asian(11.3%), Other(7.2%), Multiple(4.5%), Native(0.6%).
The area known as Manchester began its recorded history as the camping grounds of a small band of peaceful Native Americans known as the Podunk tribe. The area was settled by colonists around 1673, some 40 years after Thomas Hooker led a group of Puritans from Massachusetts Bay Colony to found Hartford.At the time it was known just as Orford Parish, a name that can still be found on the memorial to the Revolutionary soldiers from the town.
The many rivers and brooks provided power for paper, lumber, and textile industries, and the town quickly evolved into an industrial center. The town of Hartford once included the land now occupied by the towns of Manchester, East Hartford, and West Hartford. In 1783, East Hartford became a separate town, which included Manchester in its city limits until 1823.The Pitkin Glassworks operated from 1783 to 1830 as the first successful glassworks in Connecticut.
The owner of the glassworks, Captain Richard Pitkin, was given a 25-year monopoly on glass as recompense for providing gunpowder to the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The Pitkin Glassworks Ruin has been preserved by the town's historical society. In 1838, the Cheney family started what became the world's largest silk mill.
Eventually, the Cheney family employed a quarter of residents and actively recruited immigrants to work in the mills. The manufacturing presence in the town made Manchester an ideal industrial community. The mills, houses of the owners, and homes of the workers are now part of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. Also of note are the E.E.
Hilliard Company Woolen Mills. Founded ca. 1780 by Aaron Buckland and later sold to the Hilliard family, the Hilliard Mills are the oldest woolen mill site in the country.
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