Bicentennial Plaque on Rock - Town Common - Willington, CT - Community Commemoration on Waymarking.com

1727-1927
This tablet commemorates
the two hundredth anniversary of
the incorporation
of the
Town of Willington
Here amid these picturesque hills
our forefathers and foremothers
toiled for the sake of a goodly heritage
We should do no less

An historical marker also located on the Town Common provides the following information:

Willington
Incorporated 1727

In 1720 a party of eight men, originally from England, bought sixteen thousand acres in this region and called it Wellington. One of these, Roger Wolcott, subsequently became governor of Connecticut (1750–1754).

After a century of farming the town gradually expanded industrially until 1845 when it boasted a thread mill, a cotton mill, three silk factories, a scythe factory, four comb factories, button mils, and a glassworks (1815–1871) producing demijohns and flasks with varying designs.

Persons of distinction born here were Jared Sparks (1789–1866), historian and biographer and president of Harvard; Elias Loomis, professor at Yale, celebrated mathematician and astronomer.

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