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Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Ellington was incorporated in May, 1786, from East Windsor. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 15,602. ==History== Originally part of the Equivalent Lands and the town of Windsor, Ellington was part of the town of East Windsor from that town's incorporation in 1768 until Ellington split off twenty years later and incorporated itself in May 1786. Mostly known as an agricultural community, the Crystal Lake section of town was for a while a popular summer resort location.〔(Staff; "Ellington Town Information"; ''The Hartford Courant''; August 16, 2006 )〕 Ellington still has a significant amount of property dedicated to agriculture including cattle and corn farming. Ellington's sole representative to the voting on the adoption of the United States Constitution by Connecticut was Ebenezer Nash. Nash was an anti-federalist and voted against the ratification, which passed 128-40. Ellington is home to one of America’s oldest roadside memorials. A stone in the southwest corner of the town marks the site where Samuel Knight was killed "by a cartwheel rolling over his head in 10th year of his age, Nov 8, 1812". During the late 19th century and early 20th century, Ellington became the center of a community of Jewish immigrant farmers who were settled there by the philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association. They built a synagogue, Congregation Knesseth Israel,〔(Raider, Mark; ''Jewish Immigrant Farmers in the Connecticut Valley: The Rockville Settlement'' )〕 that is still standing and in use by an active Modern Orthodox congregation today and is on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(The National Register of Historic Places listings for Tolland County, Connecticut )〕 In 1991, Ellington was proposed as a potential site for a low level nuclear waste dump. Strong dissent from area residents forced the state to abandon the plan.〔("NUCLEAR WASTE Connecticut’s First Site Selection Process for a Disposal Facility";''Report to Congressional Requesters'' U.S. General Accounting Office; April 1993 )〕 As it enters the 21st Century, Ellington has had the 6th fastest growth rate of all the towns in Connecticut,〔(''Coming to Terms with Growth''; Town of Ellington Newsletter; September 2004; p2 )〕 and has been experiencing changes in growing from a rural farming town to a bedroom community. Exemplative of this change was the displacement of the locally owned Ellington Supermarket by competition from the regional Big Y supermarket chain when a new Big Y was built adjacent to the older supermarket.〔("Customers Bemoan The Imminent Closing Of Ellington Supermarket"; Journal Inquirer; July 8 2006 )〕 An independent film entitled ''The Supermarket'', was made about the incident.〔("Former Employee Turns Ellington Supermarket Into Film Icon"; Journal Inquirer; November 10 2006 )〕〔("Former Supermarket Worker Makes Film At Old Store"; Progressive Grocer; November 15 2006 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellington, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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