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Windham County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, the population was 118,428,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/09/09001.html )〕 making it the least populous county in Connecticut. Windham County is included in the Worcester, MA-CT Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area. The entire county is within the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, as designated by the National Park Service. ==History== Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on 12 May 1726 by an act of the Connecticut General Court. The act establishing the county states: :That the west bounds of the town of Lebanon, the north :bounds of Coventry, the north bounds of Mansfield till it :meet with the southwest bounds of Ashford, the west bounds :of Ashford, the east bounds of Stafford, the Massachusetts :line on the north, and Rhode Island line on the east, the north :bounds of Preston, and north bounds of Norwich, containing :the towns of Windham, Lebanon, Plainfield, Canterbury, :Mansfield, Coventry, Pomfrett, Killingly, Ashford, Voluntown :and Mortlake, shall be one entire county, and called by the :name of County of Windham.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CCR: Volume 07, Page 11 ) 〕 In May 1749, the town of Woodstock, formerly New Roxbury, Worcester County Massachusetts, was unilaterally annexed by Connecticut and assigned to Windham County. In 1785, the town of Union (incorporated in 1734) was transferred to the newly formed Tolland County. Over the next century, Windham County would lose several towns to Tolland and New London counties: Coventry to Tolland in 1786, Lebanon to New London in 1824, Columbia and Mansfield to Tolland in 1827, and Voluntown to New London in 1881. The final boundary adjustment occurred on April 7, 1885, when the boundary dispute between the towns of Windham and Mansfield was resolved.〔(Newberry Library -- Connecticut Atlas of Historical County Boundaries )〕 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「Windham County, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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