Glastonbury

Hartford County · location approximate

GLASTONBURY Formerly part of Wethersfield, the town was named for Glastonbury in England. Its thirty-four original farms, running from the River three miles east "into the wilderness," were the first officially surveyed by Connecticut Colony, 1639-40. In 1673 an additional five-mile tract (Eastbury) was purchased from the Indians. By Act of the General Court, Glastonbury became an independent town in 1693. Town meetings and selectmen governed until voters adopted council-manager government in 1959. The home of Glastonbury's first minister, the Reverend Timothy Stevens, stands one mile south of this Green. The birthplace of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under President Lincoln, stands to the north on Hebron Avenue. (Continued on other side)

The reverse face is not recovered; no photograph of it has been located. No cast footer year recovered.

Text transcribed from the cast town markers erected under Connecticut's town historical marker program in the 1970s and early 1980s. Presented as a historical record.

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