Hampton

Windham County · dedicated 1976 · location approximate

HAMPTON The Town of Hampton, incorporated 1786, was formed from parts of Windham, Pomfret, Canterbury, Mansfield, and Brooklyn. Through its length runs the Nipmuck Trail, used by Nipmuck and Mohegan Indians before the arrival of white migrants, mostly from Massachusetts, in 1709. The meeting house, built in 1754 and altered in 1838, is the second oldest Congregational edifice in Connecticut which has been in continuous use. The population in the census of 1790 was 1,333. Hampton produced a governor of the State, Chauncey F. Cleveland, in 1842. At the time of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution it remains an unspoiled rural community.

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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