Wethersfield High School history

He was elected first selectman in 1898.

In 1900 the south room became the town clerk’s office.

There was the original line from Hartford to Main and Church Streets, which was later extended to the Broad Street green, and the Franklin Avenue line, which was extended to Rocky Hill and Middletown via Wolcott Hill and Griswoldville in 1909.

The Wethersfield Businessmen’s and Civic Association was founded in 1917.

In 1919 Nutting sold the house to the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Connecticut.

The Wethersfield Women’s Association was founded in 1921 as a civic and philanthropical group whose main concerns were health and child welfare.

The Baptist Church disbanded in 1922, and the Legion post acquired their building as its headquarters.

In 1923 the Wethersfield Volunteer Fire Department built its first real firehouse on Main Street at a cost of $25,000.

In 1924 The Francis-Stillman School on Hartford Avenue replaced the Northbrick School.

In May 1928 the Businessmen’s and Civic Association promoted a “Trade in Wethersfield Week.” A magazine published for this event shows clearly that the Association was trying to encourage citizens to patronize the growing number of local businesses.

A new high school was built south of Church Street on the Silas Deane Highway in 1929.

The Ridge Road School, later named the Colonel John Chester School, was built in 1930 when additions were made to the Griswoldville School (later named Stephen Mix Mitchell School) and the Charles Wright School.

In 1932 Wethersfield shared in the nations’ celebration of the Washington Bicentennial and first-day covers for the commemorative postage stamp were issued from the Wethersfield post office because Webb house had been the scene of the Yorktown conference.

By 1933 Hubbard had built and sold 240 houses in Wethersfield.

The only musical group in town, except for school and church groups, is the Colonel John Chester Fife and Drum Corps, which was organized in 1939 and has been an award-winning group for many years.

In 1940 the library was moved to the Governor Thomas Welles School and further alterations were made to the Academy at a cost of $10,000.

In 1943 the Westfield Heights housing project was built to provide low-cost housing for those working in the defense industries in the greater Hartford area, and at the end of the war preference was given to returning veterans.

With the purchase of land for Mill Woods Park in 1944 and the opening of swimming and picnicking facilities there the following year, the town park board began to be responsible for a large number of recreational programs that had begun during the depression and the war.

Another house listed on the National Register is the 1692 Buttolph-Williams house owned by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society of Connecticut, which began to restore it in 1947.

Albert Gray was hired as the first town manager and began his duties on July 1, 1954.

When the town hall and library on the Silas Deane Highway was built in 1957, the town leased the Academy, now called the Old Academy, to the Wethersfield Historical Society for an annual rent of one red onion.

The next year they purchased the F.A. Griswold property at the corner of Wolcott Hill Road and Westway, using the house as a meeting place until 1958, when the present church was built.

The United States Post Office moved to the Silas Deane Highway in 1962.

The Silas Deane Junior High School was demolished and replaced with a larger modern structure in 1967.

The town garage on Marsh Street was built in 1969 and now houses the town maintenance department.

When the Greenfield School was closed in 1978, it was remodeled to create a community center for meeting and social events.

The town built the present headquarters on Prospect Street in 1982.