 Willimantic's town hall sports a Victorian-era clock tower.
 Giant sculptures of frogs atop spools of thread adorn a bridge next to the mill. Willimantic is a census-designated place and city located in the town of Windham, Connecticut located in Windham County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 15,823. It is home to Eastern Connecticut State University, as well as the Windham Textile and History Museum. Download high resolution version (608x1248, 66 KB)The clock tower of the Willimantic town hall, taken by User:Grendelkhan on December 26, 2004 with a Canon Digital Rebel, EF 50mm f/1. ...
Download high resolution version (608x1248, 66 KB)The clock tower of the Willimantic town hall, taken by User:Grendelkhan on December 26, 2004 with a Canon Digital Rebel, EF 50mm f/1. ...
Download high resolution version (400x676, 49 KB)This picture was taken with a Toshiba PDR-2300 digital camera on May 8, 2004 in Willimantic, Connecticut. ...
Download high resolution version (400x676, 49 KB)This picture was taken with a Toshiba PDR-2300 digital camera on May 8, 2004 in Willimantic, Connecticut. ...
A census-designated place (CDP) is an area identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical reporting. ...
Windham is a town located in Windham County, Connecticut. ...
Windham County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the state of Connecticut. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Eastern Connecticut State University is a public university in Willimantic, Connecticut. ...
The Windham Textile and History Museum is a museum in Willimantic, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. ...
History
Willimantic is best known for its frog legend. Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - Full list of families Frog is the common name for amphibians in the order Anura. ...
The "Battle of Frog Pond" was an incident in 1754 around the time of the French and Indian War. The citizens of Windham (Willimantic is located in Windham) were awakened in the middle of the night by a tremendously frightening racket just outside of town. Assuming the worst, they seized their arms and prepared for the impending Indian attack. When morning arrived, the armed villagers marched in the direction of the noise only to discover that the nearby pond had dried up, and the area was littered with hundreds of dead bullfrogs. The frogs that still lived were heading to the Willimantic River in search of water. Thus, the fearsome sounds that had plagued the citizenry the previous night had not been Indians but rather bullfrogs "fighting" for water. The pond was renamed Frog Pond, the story spread throughout the towns and colonies, and the legend was born. The story is apocryphal, and most likely well embellished by local color. Nevertheless, the town has recently erected a Frog Bridge to commemorate the incident, featuring frogs atop spools of thread. The French and Indian War is the American name for the decisive nine-year conflict (1754-1763) in North America between the Kingdom of Great Britain and France, which was one of the theatres of the Seven Years War. ...
The Willimantic River flows past the old American Thread Company mill in Willimantic The Willimantic River is a tributary of the Shetucket River, approximately 35 mi (56 km long) in northeastern Connecticut in the New England region of the United States. ...
 The complex that was once the American Thread Company's Willimantic mill has been partially restored. The thread spools are included in the bridge's design because Willimantic was, at one time, known as "Thread City". The American Thread Company had a mill in Willimantic on the banks of the Willimantic River, and was at one time the largest employer in the state as well as one of the largest producers of thread in the world. They brought in a series of immigrant labor groups, including the Irish, French-Canadian, Polish and Puerto Rican. As an interesting side effect, the town has two Catholic churches, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's, because two of the Catholic groups refused to share a church (in the 1990's a third Catholic church was built to minister to the Puerto Rican community). The mill was vacated in 1985, and the town has had no major industry to replace it since then. This picture was taken with a Toshiba PDR-2300 digital camera on May 8, 2004, in Willimantic, Connecticut. ...
This picture was taken with a Toshiba PDR-2300 digital camera on May 8, 2004, in Willimantic, Connecticut. ...
The Willimantic River flows past the old American Thread Company mill in Willimantic The Willimantic River is a tributary of the Shetucket River, approximately 35 mi (56 km long) in northeastern Connecticut in the New England region of the United States. ...
More recent media attention has focused on the drug problem in town. The Hartford Courant released a series of articles in October 2002 entitled Heroin Town, detailing the history of the drug use/addiction in the city. The series provoked an outraged response from the townspeople, who saw themselves as victims of, at best, yellow journalism. Resulting from the attention received by the Hartford Courant's series, a piece later aired on 60 Minutes 2, also detailing the drug use in Willimantic. The Hartford Courant is Connecticuts largest daily newspaper, and the only morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury. ...
Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Yellow journalism is a term given to any widespread tendencies or practices within media organizations that are detrimental to, or substandard from the point of view of, journalistic integrity. ...
The ticking TAG Heuer stopwatch from 60 Minutes. ...
Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.6 km² (4.5 mi²). 11.4 km² (4.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.23% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
A square mile is the area equal to a square with sides each 1 mile long. ...
Willimantic is the home of the Willimantic foot bridge (established in 1907), which is the only foot bridge in the United States to connect two state highways, as well as crossing all three major forms of transportation (road, rail, and river). 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there are 15,823 people, 5,604 households, and 3,166 families residing in the CDP. The population density is 1,391.6/km² (3,607.0/mi²). There are 6,026 housing units at an average density of 530.0/km² (1,373.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP is 70.35% White, 6.25% African American, 0.59% Native American, 1.67% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 16.87% from other races, and 4.13% from two or more races. 30.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...
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This article is about the year 2000. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
There are 5,604 households out of which 29.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.5% are married couples living together, 18.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 43.5% are non-families. 33.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.45 and the average family size is 3.13. Marriage is a relationship between individuals which has formed the foundation of the family for most societies. ...
In the CDP the population is spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 22.4% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 16.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 28 years. For every 100 females there are 95.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP is $30,155, and the median income for a family is $38,427. Males have a median income of $30,697 versus $23,297 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $15,727. 19.8% of the population and 14.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 25.7% of those under the age of 18 and 12.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ...
The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...
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