Coventry, lying some twenty miles east of Hartford, is the birthplace of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale.

Coventry was originally part of the Shawomet Purchase deeded to Samuel Gorton.

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This photographic history tells the story of Coventry, a bucolic New England town with a fascinating history. On August 21, 1741, the area west of what is now the town of West Warwick was incorporated into the Township of Coventry.

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Follows the ill-fated love between Eliot Hopkins and Alice Browne through the relationship of his now deceased mother and disabled father, and further back to the charmed life of his Austria-Hungary immigrant great-grandparents, who escaped ...