Talk:Willimantic, Connecticut

message: I read the part of the article on the legend of the frog fight and realized it is actually historically innaccurate. The battle of the frogs legend did not even take place in Willimantic, but in Windham Center, at frog pond, which is located near route 14 heading towards Scotland. I just saw that it said the frogs were heading toward the Willimantic River, when that is not true. I would reccomeend deleting the battle of the frogs story from the Willimantic page and swithcing it to the Windham page.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.187.188 (talk) 19:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it's seven years late, but most of what you said is true, and has been fixed. If you want to, a page has been created for the bridge, the Frog Bridge.— JJBers|talk 04:42, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: battle of the frogs

message: Without having much wish to dive into the battles of frogs, may I note that the external link in the text to the "frog bridge" now points to a page saying that the page has moved. I don't have as much familiarity with Connecticut as I ought and the task of finding the correct link is, at present, beyond my resources. Pete 00:31, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankfully, that Kurumi site has this sort of thing. grendel|khan 21:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Frogs

message: Someone deleted the section on Willimantic's heroin trade last November, which apparently slipped under the radar. I've re-added it, this time with footnotes. If someone wants to argue for the section's deletion, please do so here on the talk page rather than just deleting it again. grendel|khan 21:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Heroin Town

message: The history section is going under the knife at the hands of unregistered users with very little comment or justification provided...is there some reason for this?  A lot of this information (about all the railroads, for example) is really great and really specific, so I get the feeling that whoever is adding it has access to some historical records.  Could we please cite this stuff so it can stay in the article?  Statements like "This was the beginning of industrialized Willimantic" cannot remain in an article without a citation. Mjl0509 (talk) 04:04, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: As someone who has lived in Willimantic for upwards of 40 years, I'm surprised when other long-time residents claim that because of consolidation in the 80s, Willimantic no longer exists. I say it's on every map, has a mayor, police force, fire department, and a public library, and that their position is like saying that Brooklyn, NY, does not exist since it was incorporated into New York City about a century ago. Of course, the situation is maybe more complicated in the case of Willimantic. The Wikipedia classifies Willimantic as "a census designated place" and also as a "village" in the town of Windham. Neither of these designations is very helpful. A village with a university, a hospital, a symphony orchestra, a theatre, dozens of churches, three of them Catholic, a community college, half a dozen schools, including a magnet school for the performing arts? Some village! Though the designation may be legally accurate, neither residents or visitors would think of Willimantic as a village. The designation Windham is also a problem because it is a town (meaning a township in Connecticut) and also a county, which some will tell you also no longer exists, though it's on all the maps. Though it may not be so legally, everyone thinks of Willimantic as a city with outlying villages all in the town(ship) of Windham. What I find especially irritating is the characterization of Windham/ Willimantic assumed by journalists in Hartford who apparently never have been here. Willimantic is not a shabby, derelict crime- and gang-ridden slum, but a vibrant city known for its historic Victorian architecture, as the Wikipedia article suggests. Jim Lacey (talk) 18:57, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, how late I am, but Willimantic is a borough, it exists in a form only found in Danielson, Connecticut in the county. This means that it is technically part of Windham, but has it's own systems. Also, Storrs, Connecticut, a major college town, is just a CDP...of a course with the university, it has basically what you said. Then about the town of Windham, it exists, many towns are located in counties with the same name, just look at Tolland, or New London, or even Hartford, and so on. Also Willi is a local name only used in the immediate area, it loses it use barely as far as Brooklyn or Bolton.— JJBers|talk 04:50, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  JJBers where are your citations that Willimantic is a borough?  In my research, I have not been able to find any sources that say Willimantic is incorporated as a borough.  In fact-- I've found the opposite.  If you visit http://www.ct.gov/dmv/lib/dmv/CT_DOT_OSOW_-_Town_Borough_Village_Listing.pdf, Willimantic is listed as only an unincorporated village, not a borough.  Additionally-- the US Census lists Willimantic as a census-designated place and not a borough.  If there are no sources that indicate Willimantic is a borough, it should not be listed as such on Wikipedia.—  Bkotos 20:00, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This will need some clearing up.  I added a historic source showing that it was a borough in the 1800s, but this may no longer be correct.  Magnolia677 (talk) 20:00, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Willimantic exist? 

message: The Anne Street pedestrian bridge in Minot, North Dakota crosses a road, several railroad tracks, a river, and a pedestrian trail.  The section about it being the only footbridge that goes over a road, a railroad track, and a river. Bugo 01:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: But it's way more notable, and is in the National Register of Historic Places, which has a lot of places, but it does require a large amount of history behind it to be in. Also the bridge you mentioned has very little info.— JJBers|talk 04:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willimantic Footbridge 

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message: Noticing that the peer review found no issues and suggested the article was GA-ready as of last year, I've explicitly nominated it. grendel|khan 00:30, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nominating for GA. 

message: While revising the article in the hopes of getting it through the GA process (), something struck me. In the late nineteenth century, Willimantic was a mighty crossroads--three major rail lines ran through it, and the Hotel Hooker was the jewel of eastern Connecticut. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the highway network--the modern equivalent of the railroads--doesn't come within ten miles of the town, and the Hotel Hooker was primarily known for heroin and prostitution. It's striking just how the wheel can turn. I can't make that sound encyclopedic, but it jumped out at me and I wanted to write it down somewhere. grendel|khan 04:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: US 6 is a alright highway to get around. I do wish I-84 was completed to Providence, but I guess you can't get everything. —JJBers 17:33, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A not-very-encyclopedic thought.