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The town of Mansfield is located in east central Connecticut, southwest corner of Tolland County - "the quiet corner" of the state. The town covers 44 square miles, is the home of the main campus of the University of Connecticut and Mansfield Hollow Lake and State Park. The town has 3 post offices: Mansfield Center (1,043 pop) - the original settlement, Storrs (12,198 pop.), and Mansfield Depot. Mansfield Four Corners, Gurleyville, Atwoodville, Mount Hope, and Spring Hill are boroughs of Storrs.
Mansfield was formed from a section of the Town of Windham, CT, and was originally in Windham County : "Miss Ellen D. Larned's valuable History of Windham County, tells us that Mansfield was included in a tract of land left by Joshua, third son of a Mohegan chief, to Capt. John Mason and fifteen other gentlemen from Norwich. After the tract was surveyed, and divided into lots, three sites were 'selected for villages. The Hither Place, now Old Windham village, the Ponde Place, now Mansfield Centre, and the valley of the Willimantic, near the site of the present Willimantic Borough.
"The town of Mansfield was incorporated in May, 1703, [1702 according to the town seal and the Town Clerk's office] but it was not until 1710 that Mr Eleazer Williams, son of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, Mass, was ordained a pastor of the first church.
"In 1737, the town was divided into North and South Parishes, and in 1744 a second church was established in the North Parish, over which Rev. Wm. Thorp from Lebanon, was ordained as pastor. There are very few records of the second church in its early days."
Dimock's Births, Baptisms Marriages and Deaths Mansfield, Conn. (1898)
 City/Town : Latitude: 41.7658306, Longitude: -72.2341694
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