Timeline

What happened when? A timeline to keep events in relationship.

• 1492: Columbus visits Hispanola
• 1614: Adrien Bloch explores the Connecticut River to Hartford
• 1620: Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth
• 1635: Windsor, Hartford & Wethersfield settled
• 1716: First settlers arrive in Rockville area from East Windsor
• 1720: Town of Bolton incorporated which included the current town of Vernon as North Bolton
• 1726: First Permanent Settler: Samuel Grant moves from Windsor to North Bolton
• 1740: Saw mill erected at Valley Falls
• 1751: First Cemetery Established: North Bolton Cemetery on Bamforth Road
• 1760: North Bolton becomes a distinct Ecclesiastical Society
• 1762: First Church built on Old Meeting House Hill, Rev. Ebenezer Kellogg called
• 1776: Declaration of Independence signed
• 1789: North Bolton given mile and a half of East Windsor
• 1808: Vernon separates from Bolton and incorporates
• 1809: Peter Dobson builds cotton spinning mill on the Tankerhoosen
• 1821: First power looms at Rock Mill in Rockville
• 1841: First manufacture of fine linens in Rockville
• 1849: Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad opens through Vernon
• 1854: Talcott Brothers buy village and mill
• 1860-64: Civil War
• 1863: Railroad spur to Rockville opens
• 1867: Talcott Brothers give land for Mount Hope Cemetery
• 1869: Spring freshet destroys upper Talcott mill, lower mill burns
• 1888: March blizzard paralyzes northeast
• 1889: City of Rockville incorporated
• 1914-18: First World War
• 1929: Beginning of Great Depression
• 1938: Hurricane brings flooding and destruction
• 1939: Ackersly Mill at Talcottville Gorge torn down
• 1939-45: Second World War
• 1940's: Highway built through Vernon destroying Dobsonville
• 1950: Talcott's sell mill to Nodevac
• 1965: Town of Vernon and City of Rockville consolidate
• 1982: Interstate I-84 widened taking remainder of Dobsonville and more of wetlands
• 1988: Roosevelt Mill closes in Rockville
• 2005: Valley Falls Cemetery opens
• 2010: Talcott Family donates Ravine to Northern CT Land Trust