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Wolcott is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,680 at the 2010 census. Wolcott was founded in 1796 and was originally named Farmingbury. It is primarily residential. Based on 2008 CERC data, there are 6,021 existing housing units in Town, of which 90% are single family homes and 6% with 5 or greater units. According to the Town’s 2011 Plan of Conservation and Development, 56% of the Town’s land is undeveloped, followed by 33% residential, 4% land under water, 2% agricultural, 2% commercial, 1% industrial uses, and the remaining 2% recreational and utilities. Of the town’s 13,047 acres, 86% is zoned residential, 3% business and 7% industrial zoned. ==History== As the end of the 17th-century grew near, the early towns of Waterbury and Farmington had come to occupy a great deal of west-central Connecticut in the Naugatuck River Valley and Farmington River Valley, respectively. At that time, the borderlands between these two towns were known as Farmingbury, a term derived by simply combining parts of the two town names. Although individuals were living within the Farmingbury territory as early as the 1730s, they possessed no official identity apart from the parent towns of either Waterbury or Farmington. By 1770, the residents of Farmingbury successfully petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly to create the First Ecclesiastical Society of Farmingbury. Having established an independent parish, Farmingbury gained a good deal of religious, legal and financial independence from Waterbury and Farmington. However, the political boundaries of the region remained unchanged for more than two decades afterwards. During that time the Farmingbury parish was largely self-sufficient, owing to its fairly remote location, but still officially considered to be part and parcel to Waterbury in the west and Farmington in the east. Thus, the parish society found itself handling several matters that would ordinarily have been municipal duties, such as managing taxes and local education. Farmingbury petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly in 1796, requesting that it be incorporated as an independent town distinct from Waterbury and Farmington. Assembly votes tallied up to a tie, half in favor and half against the proposal. The tie-breaking vote in favor of Farmingbury was cast by Lieutenant Governor Oliver Wolcott and the lands of Farmingbury previously owned by Waterbury and Farmington were officially ceded to the new town. In honor of the Lieutenant Governor's deciding vote, the residents of Farmingbury renamed their newly incorporated town "Wolcott".〔Orcutt, Samuel. ''History of the Town of Wolcott (Connecticut) from 1731 to 1874, with an account of the Centenary Meeting, September 10th and 11th 1873; and with the Genealogies of the Families of the Town''. Waterbury: Press of the American Printing Company, 1874. Print.〕 The 1800 United States Census was the first census conducted after Wolcott's incorporation and counted 948 individuals living within the town.〔United States of America. ''Return of the Whole Number of Persons Within the Several Districts of the United States''. Printed by order of the House of Representatives, 1801. Print. 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「Wolcott, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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