Picture South Windsor - Then And Now

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — Today we return to the pages of 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.

On page 16 is an undated photo of the junction of the Connecticut and Scantic rivers, just north of Ferry Lane in the East Windsor Hill section of South Windsor. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was the site of a shipyard belonging to Ebenezer Grant.

The Scantic River originates in Hampden, Mass., and flows for 40.6 miles through the communities of Hampden, Soemrs, Enfield and East Windsor before emptying into the Connecticut River in South Windsor.

Here is a more contemporary view of the area, courtesy of Google Maps.

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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