Andover

The first settlement in Andover was made in 1713 in the southeast part of the present town. Portions of Lebanon, Hebron, and Coventry joined to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Andover, which the General Assembly recognized in May 1747. Daniel Burnap, a famous clock-maker, was born here in 1759. Major John Hutchinson Buell, a native and resident of Andover, served throughout the Revolution and later in the Indian wars in Ohio. Rochambeau's army of six thousand marched through Andover in 1781 on the way to the siege of Yorktown in Virginia and camped here on the return trip the following year. In 1848, the town was incorporated, the railroad arrived, and small industries prospered.

Andover, Connecticut · United States