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The town of Ashford is located in Windham County, in North Eastern Connecticut, on a tract purchased from Indians and formally recognized by the General Assembly in 1684. Covering 40.3 sq.miles and home to 3,920, the town was settled in 1710 by four families and only four years later in 1714, the town was incorporated. The town developed quickly because it was located on the original thoroughfare between Hartford and Boston. Several carding, woolen, and tin factories were established after the War of 1812. Perhaps the single most notable business in the town's history was the Westford Glass Factory. Founded in 1857, it survived highly-publicized bankruptcy hearings in 1866 and remained in operation until 1873. At its peak the factory employed many skilled glass blowers and a troop of "choppers" to stoke the furnaces that kept is cauldrons at white heat around the clock. The factory's ruins can still be seen, and Westford bottles, if so labeled, are now prized antiques.

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