Picture South Windsor - Then And Now

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — It's time for another trip into an amazing picture book entitled Images of America: South Windsor, compiled in 2017 by Claire Lobdell for the Wood Memorial Library & Museum. The book, containing 128 pages of fascinating photos from the town's history, is available for purchase at the library's museum store here.

Today's excursion stops on page 31, and a look at the East Windsor Hill Academy on Main St. It was built in 1800 as a private, co-ed preparatory school, and professors from the Theological Institute of Connecticut taught there in the 1850s.

The academy closed in 1860, and for the next 40 years, the building was utilized as a public school. The above photo was taken in 1886.

Situated on land between what is now 1810 and 1828 Main St., the building was torn down around 1900. In the view below from Google Maps, the area where the academy once stood between those two homes is now wooded.

Do you have a photo of an old South Windsor business which no longer exists, to which you own the rights and which we could feature in this column? Email tim.jensen@patch.com.

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