About Bloomfield, Connecticut

Bloomfield is a town of 21,535 people in Hartford County, the largest count in its history. The Poquonock people lived here before English settlers arrived in 1660, when the land belonged to Windsor. In 1736 the farm families were set off as the Parish of Wintonbury, a name pieced together from Windsor, Farmington and Simsbury, the three towns that gave up land for it.

The parish ordained Rev. Hezekiah Bissell in 1738 to serve sixty-five families, and he stayed for 45 years. By 1802 Wintonbury had 176 houses, four taverns and a new gin distillery, and its farmers sold wood, hay and casks in Hartford. On May 28, 1835, the General Assembly made the parish a town, and it took the name Bloomfield at the suggestion of Francis Gillette. Farms, many of them growing shade tobacco, covered the town until the 1950s, when new suburban neighborhoods spread out from Hartford.

“every farmer had a road of his own to Hartford”
Memorial History of Hartford County, 1886
  • Squirrels in the meetinghouseWintonbury's first meetinghouse was a plain, unpainted building with no steeple. Swallows nested in its rafters, and squirrels were so thick that the pulpit cushions spent the week at the tavern. When the old building began falling apart, the parish put up a new church, holding services under four great oaks while the work went on. It was dedicated on December 6, 1801, and every pew was filled.
  • The man who named BloomfieldFrancis Gillette, son of the Baptist elder Ashbel Gillet, went to Yale, but weak lungs ended his law studies and he came home to farm. In 1833 he built a fieldstone house on the Hartford road. A leading Connecticut abolitionist, he sheltered people escaping slavery there, an account dating from at least 1886. He reached the U.S. Senate in 1854 in time to vote against the Nebraska Bill. The Francis Gillette House joined the National Register in 1982.
  • A brick school from 1795The Old Farm Schoolhouse, also called the Brick School, was one of seven district schools the parish built in the late 1700s, and it is the oldest public building left in Bloomfield. Children studied there until 1922, and an American Legion post used it from 1931 to 1971. In 1976 it was moved a short way when the intersection was realigned. It is now a historical society museum, and it joined the National Register in 1972.
  • David Grant's stone schoolIn 1858 the farmer David Grant built the Southwest District School on Simsbury Road, a one-room schoolhouse of locally quarried stone for the farm families of southwest Bloomfield. Classes ended there in 1922 or 1923, as Bloomfield shut down the last of its district schools. The Wintonbury Historical Society owns it today, and it joined the National Register in 1992.

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Names on the Bloomfield map

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Places and landmarks29

  • Spoonville
  • Ana Grace Academy of the Arts
  • Archbishop Henry J. O’Brien Memorial Library
  • Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
  • Beardsley--Mix House
  • Bloomfield High School
  • Bloomfield Police Department
  • Bloomfield Town Green
  • Bloomfield Town Hall
  • Blue Hills Neighborhood Center
  • Case Corner
  • Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters
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  • Evans Family Meadows
  • Farmington River Park
  • Filley Park
  • Heublein Tower
  • Laurel Literacy Academy
  • Marion K Wilcox Park
  • Metacomet School
  • North Bloomfield
  • Old Farm Schoolhouse
  • Penwood State Park
  • Prosser Public Library
  • Reservoir 6 Recreation Area
  • Southwest District School
  • Speer Reserve
  • Talcott Mountain Science Center and Academy
  • Wintonbury Early Childhood Magnet School
  • Wintonbury Hills Golf Course

Streets and roads11

  • Adams Rd
  • Mountain Ave
  • Gun Mill Road
  • Peters Rd
  • North Ave
  • Still Rd
  • Rockwell Ave
  • Elizabeth Ave
  • Brookline Ave
  • Farmington River Tpke
  • Park Ave

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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