South Windsor
Author: Claire Lobdell for Wood Memorial Library & Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467125237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Windsor owes its location to the Connecticut River, whose periodic floods created fertile lowlands that nourished livestock and crops. Tobacco became a mainstay of South Windsor's agricultural life in the early to mid-19th centuries, with mills on the Scantic and Podunk Rivers, tributaries of the Connecticut. Well into the 20th century, South Windor's children still attended some of the one- and two-room schoolhouses around town until the post-World War II baby boom and influx of new residents necessitated new buildings.