About Hampton, Connecticut

Hampton is a town of 1,728 people in Windham County, in Connecticut's northeastern corner, the area people call the Quiet Corner. Settlers began arriving about 1708 in the northern part of Windham, and in 1717 they won a church society of their own. It was named Canada Parish after David Canada or Kennedy, the first settler, and was known as well as Windham Village. The church was gathered with 17 members on June 5, 1723, and by 1730 the parish had a road to Pomfret, a military company under Captain Nathaniel Kingsbury, Nathaniel Hovey's tavern and Benjamin Bidlack's store. The meetinghouse built in 1754 still stands on the hill.

In 1786 the parish became the town of Hampton, carved from parts of five towns: Pomfret, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Mansfield and Windham. The new town's first meeting chose Lieutenant Jacob Preston as its Leather Sealer. Hampton remained a farming town, and in 1862 it met its Civil War quota of nine soldiers with volunteers, so it never had to hold a draft. The New York and New England Railroad came through in 1872 and brought summer visitors.

“One of the beautiful towns of this beautiful rural county is the town of Hampton.”
History of Windham County, Connecticut, 1889
  • Raised by women in 1776During the Revolution, a carpenter built the frame of a house for a young soldier and his intended bride, but with Hampton's men off in the Continental Army, too few strong men remained to lift the frame into place. The bride-to-be, Sally Bowers, called on the town's women, and together they raised it. A magazine writer in 1906 found the house still standing. It had twelve low rooms around a huge fireplace.
  • A liberty pole from 1849In 1849 Jonathan Clark put up a liberty pole at Clark's Corner and marked it with how far it was to Hartford and other towns. The pole is still preserved there.
  • Lying Ben and 173 oxenBenjamin Fuller, a farmer and hunter who died in 1840, told stories so well that neighbors nicknamed him Lying Ben. A smith also named Fuller hung out his horseshoe sign on credit, outlasted rivals who bragged they would soon nail him, and was the town's leading smith for thirty-five years. He liked to claim he had once shod 173 oxen in one winter.
  • Trail Wood since 1959Edwin Way Teale and his wife, Nellie, moved from Long Island in 1959 to an old farm in northern Hampton, which they named Trail Wood. He finished ten of his books there, including the Pulitzer Prize winner of 1966, Wandering Through Winter. After his death Nellie gave the farm to the Connecticut Audubon Society in 1981, and it is now a 168-acre sanctuary bearing his name.
  • A governor from HamptonChauncey F. Cleveland of Hampton became governor of Connecticut in 1842 and served two years. He came home to Hampton and died there on June 6, 1887.

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Names on the Hampton map

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Places and landmarks26

  • Downtown
  • Clarks Corner
  • Rawson
  • Hamptonville
  • Natchaug State Forest
  • Bigelow Howard Valley Game Club
  • Cohantic Ledges
  • Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary at Trail Wood
  • Fletcher Memorial Library
  • Fuller Preserve
  • Gathering in Christ Church
  • H. E. Preston Nature Sanctuary
Show all 26 places
  • Hampton Community Center
  • Hampton Elementary School
  • Hampton Hill Historic District
  • Hampton Reservoir Boat Launch
  • Hampton Town Hall
  • Hemphill Preserve
  • James L. Goodwin State Forest
  • Little River Wildlife Area
  • Pine Acres Lake Boat Launch
  • Pudding Hill
  • Rad Ostby Memorial Forest
  • Stepping Stone Ministries
  • Stone Preserve
  • Windy Hill Road Open Space

Streets and roads22

  • Utley Rd
  • Hill Ct
  • Fayette Rd
  • Hill Rd
  • Spicer Rd
  • Windy Hill Rd
  • Pound Rd
  • Potter Rd
  • Parker Rd
  • Eleventh Section Rd
  • Brook St
  • Hill St
  • Fisk St
  • Drain St
  • Bigelow Rd
  • Pachaug State Forest
  • Pudding Hill Rd
  • Brook Rd
  • Windham Rd
  • Reilly Rd
  • Cemetery Rd
  • Sand Hill Rd

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

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