Willimantic Water Works
Pumping Station
The Pumping Station is located just across the
border in the town of Mansfield, Connecticut. It
was built in 1888, and is still used to pump
drinking water to area residents.
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Willimantic
Water Works
1936
Construction of the treatment facility
(the dam had been built many years before). The
1889 History of Windham County, Connecticut by
Richard M. Bayles says, “Yet another fine drive,
but somewhat longer, is the one north through
Mansfield street to the Storrs agricultural
school. On this route is passed the Willimantic
Water Works pumping station. The Natchaug river
is dammed at this point, forming a beautiful
lake, with grounds laid out very tastily as a
small park.
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Willimantic
Water Works
That same book by Bayles gives a fairly
comprehensive history of the Water Works,
including this piece, "A dam and pumping
station, and engineer's house were erected at
Conantville, about one and a half miles north of
the village, on the Natchaug, and a reservoir
was built on Hosmer mountain, south of the
village."
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Willimantic Pumping Station
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