Windham County, CT

WINDHAM COUNTY, situated at the southeast corner of Vermont, with Connecticut river on the east. Area, 780 square miles. Face of the country, hilly and broken; soil, generally good. Seat of justice, Fayetteville or Newfane. Pop. in 1810, 26,760; in 1820, 28,659; in 1830, 28,758; in 1840, 27,442; in 1850, 29,062. (Fanning's, 1853)
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County
Containing Unit
Connecticut

Windham County, Connecticut (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
WINDHAM COUNTY, situated at the southeast corner of Vermont, with Connecticut river on the east. Area, 780 square miles. Face of the country, hilly and broken; soil, generally good. Seat of justice, Fayetteville or Newfane. Pop. in 1810, 26,760; in 1820, 28,659; in 1830, 28,758; in 1840, 27,442; in 1850, 29,062.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 393.
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Eliphalet Nott, president of Union College for sixty-two years, dies in Schenectady, New York. Education/Culture
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