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Quinebaug ( KWIH-nə-bawg) is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Thompson, a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, Quinebaug had a population of 1,114.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,133 in 2010, 1,114 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Quinebaug, 1874–1920
Passages that mention Quinebaug, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Windham County, Connecticut1874 · page 79Read the page →
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pointed **to join with Poinfret gentlemen in repairing the bndge called Danielson's." However well repaired it was soon carried away by a freshet, and a new committee appointed in 1770, "to rebuild our part of the bridge at CargilKs Mills, and view the Quinebaug above and below where Daniclson s bridge stood, and see where they could set a bridge." William Dan'ielson was allowed twenty-nine pounds for building half the latter bridge, and a new road was laid out from it to Voluntown. In 1774. the Quinebaug was bridged between Oargills and
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History of Windham County, Connecticut ..1889 · page 752Read the page →
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West side the Quinebaug the first settler was Captain John Sabin. Although his fine old mansion was just outside the line dividing Putnam from Pomfret, yet his ownership of the land and intimate connection with the first settlement of the Quinebaug gives him a prominent place among Putnam notables. His settlement even preceded that of Richard Evans, dating back to 1691, and his services during the subsequent Indian wars, by maintaining fortifications upon the frontier and restraining and
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History of Windham County, Connecticut ..1889 · page 853Read the page →
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Selectmen of Woodstock initiated a movement for a new road to Providence, with a bridge over the Quinebaug. The road was laid out as at present, crossing the river below the High Falls (now in Putnam), but no bridge was achieved for a number of years.
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A modern history of Windham county, Connecticut1920 · page 827Read the page →
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of Indians and to the river which flowed through their country. This river has its source in Lead Mine Pond in the Town of Sturbridge, Mass. A river runs south from it about two miles to Mashapaug Lake in the Town of Union, Conn., meaning "great water." Thence our Quinebaug runs northerly into Massachusetts through the towns of Holland, Brimfield, Sturbridge and Southbridge, traveling a distance of nearly twenty miles and receiving the waters from fourteen natural ponds and lakes. At Southbridge it receives its first tributary from "Windham County out of Hatchet Pond in the northwest part
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By decade
Quinebaug, decade by decade
2 decades in the archive, from the 1930s to the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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