Picture East Windsor - Then And Now

EAST WINDSOR, CT — This 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.

Turning to page 123, we find an undated photo of Elmer H. Sloan's tobacco sorting warehouse in the Broad Brook village. It was attached to a barn full of dried tobacco, one of five such businesses in town at the time. In 1946, a fire destroyed the barn, the warehouse and all the crops.

Sloan put his name, E.H. Sloan, in slate on top of a building he owned at 66 Main Street, in order to make it easier to spot his warehouse. The name is still visible today, as evidenced by this recent aerial view of the area, courtesy of Google Maps. East Windsor Middle School is at the top of the photo.

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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