Vernon, Connecticut An Excerpt from the CT 169 Club Book Tolland County Originally part of Bolton, Vernon, Connecticut in Tolland County, contains the smaller villages of Rockville, Talcotville, and Dobsonville. Vernon’s claim to fame was its mills, the first of which...
Coventry, CT An Excerpt from The Connecticut 169 Club Town History Twenty-miles east of Hartford at the gateway to the “Quiet Corner” lies the town of Coventry. The land was known to the Mohegans as “Wongumbaug” or “crooked pond” for the curved shape of the 380-acre...