Picture East Windsor - Then And Now

EAST WINDSOR, CT — The latest edition of this periodic informal history series, highlighting buildings from East Windsor's past and what those locations look like today, brings us back to a great picture book called Images of America: East Windsor. Released in 2017, the book was compiled by Ceil Donahue and Jessica Bottomley for the East Windsor Historical Society.

On page 46, we find a late 19th century photo of the farmhouse of S. Terry Wells, a selectman who was active in the Grange and Scantic Church. Built in 1830, the house is on Wells Road, across from the end of Mahoney Road, and still stands today, though numerous additions have been made over the years.

According to the book, Wells wrote in his diary in July and August of 1890:

"Carted loads of hay clearing the east lot, lots of days of haying, lots of calfing also and selling calfs, bred Hoderness cow with Potwines bull, bought a load of coal from BB Clark, worked on road in front of house, interviewed school teacher, wife and Herbert sold hens in Hartford 12 cents a pound, sold potatoes at BB for 50 cents a bushel, sow had 6 piglets, attended Farmers Club, commenced to cut tobacco & ang tobacco."

Here is a more contemporary look at the home, courtesy of Google Maps.

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

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