Local History

Websites – Pomfret

• History of Pomfret Public Libary
• Pomfret Historical Sites – Pomfret 300 map
• Pomfret CT Postcard Archive – posted by Andrew LaCasse
• Pomfret architecture, artwork, gravestones – photos posted by Jerry Dougherty

Websites – Connecticut

• Connecticut History.org – a CT Humanities program
• History & Genealogy – CT State Library
• Aerial Photographs – CT State Library
• CT History Illustrated – over 18,000 digital primary sources from libraries, museums and historical societies
• CT GenWeb Project – links to helpful genealogy sites, by county and town
• Hale Collection of CT Cemetery Records – headstone inscriptions from CT cemeteries, collected by Charles Hale as a W.P.A. project, 1932-5.

Books

• Lee, Stephen. Windham County, Conn., Business Directory Containing the Names, Business and Location of All the Business Men in the County, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Other Statistics, with a History of Each Town. Windham County Transcript Office, 1861. Link
• Bayles, Richard, ed. History of Windham County, Connecticut. New York, NY: W. W. Preston & Company, 1889. Link
• Larned, Ellen. History of Windham County, Connecticut. 1600-1760. Vol. 1. Worcester,  MA: Ellen Larned, 1874. Link.
• Larned, Ellen. History of Windham County, Connecticut. 1760-1880. Vol. 2. Worcester,  MA: Ellen Larned, 1874. Link.
• Griggs, Susan. Early Homesteads of Pomfret,  Hampton and Vicinity. Abington (?), CT; Susan Griggs, 1950. Link.
  
• Hunt, D. History of Pomfret: A discourse deliered on the day of annual Thanksgiving, in the 1st Church of Pomfret,Nov. 18, 1840 by D. Hunt, Pastor of said church. Hartford: J. Holbrook, Printer, 1841. Link.

Contacts

• Pomfret Town Clerk – Vital Records
• Walter Hinchman, Town Historian – please use the form below to request research assistance from Mr. Hinchman