About Hebron, Connecticut

Hebron is a town of 9,098 people in Tolland County, Connecticut. Settlers began clearing land here in 1704, and when the town was incorporated on May 26, 1708, nine families lived in it. In May 1710 the Colonial Assembly ordered that all horses kept in Hebron be marked with a diamond brand, and that diamond still gives the town seal its shape.

The new town grew quickly, and a map drawn in 1744 shows 151 houses. Hebron belonged first to Hartford County and then to Windham County from 1726, and it joined the new Tolland County on October 13, 1785. In 1803 the state took part of Hebron, along with pieces of Colchester and Glastonbury, to create the town of Marlborough.

“That prospect of calm and peaceful country life which has ever been the charm of Hebron and which draws us back again and again, however far we may wander.”
Hebron bicentennial book, 1910
  • How it became Pump TownIn 1758 word reached Hebron that Louisburg, the French stronghold, had been captured. The town wanted to fire a salute but owned no cannon. Townspeople made one from a huge oak log, which a blacksmith bound with iron hoops, and they filled it with powder from their horns. They hauled it up the highest hill and lit it, the log burst apart, and Hebron was known as Pump Town after that.
  • The Peters family freed in 1789Tailor Elijah Graves then claimed Cesar owed him for clothing, and officers used that claim to catch the family near Norwich before they were shipped south. The state freed them in January 1789, and in 2004 the town bought their East Street house.
  • Turnerville became AmstonBy 1835 a blast furnace in southern Hebron smelted bog iron hauled from Colchester, though it never paid well. Phineas W. Turner bought it in 1853 and built a silk village there: three mills, a store and over thirty houses. Turnerville got a post office in 1864, and Turner staked his fortune on the Air Line railroad.
  • The lost village of Gay CityIn 1796 Elijah Andrus brought his followers to a hollow on the Blackledge River. A sawmill and a wool mill grew up there, and the settlement, called Factory Hollow, grew to about 25 families, many of whom carried the Gay name. The mills later disappeared, leaving foundations and stone walls in the woods, and the state bought the land in 1943 for Gay City State Park, now Connecticut's fourth largest.
  • A brick house of about 1820Captain Augustus Post built his brick Federal house, with a fanlight over the door, about 1820 at Main and Church Streets, facing a piece of the old green. He sold it in 1824. Later it belonged to John S. Peters, who served as governor from 1831 to 1833, and to the Hewitt family, who ran a general store nearby. The Augustus Post House joined the National Register in 1982.

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Names on the Hebron map

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Places and landmarks22

  • Amston
  • Hope Valley
  • Blackledge Country Club
  • Burnt Hill Park
  • Camp Connecticut
  • Chestnut Hollow Grist Mill Trails
  • Chittenden Road Open Space North
  • Douglas Library Of Hebron
  • Gilead Hill School
  • Grayville Falls Town Park
  • Hebron Center Historic District
  • Hebron Elementary School
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  • Hebron Lions Fairgrounds
  • Hebron Town Offices
  • Holbrook Pond Boat Launch
  • RHAM High School
  • RHAM Middle School
  • Raymond Brook Wildlife Management Area
  • Russell Mercier Senior Center
  • Salmon River State Forest
  • Tallwood Country Club
  • Veterans Memorial Park

Streets and roads13

  • Jan Dr
  • Andover Rd
  • Stonehouse Rd
  • Buck Rd
  • Kinne Rd
  • Richardson Dr
  • Lebanon Rd
  • Grayville Road
  • Niles Rd
  • Red Hill Rd
  • Crouch Rd
  • Pond Rd
  • Air Line State Park Trail

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

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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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