In the 1989 film Glory, boxes of gunpowder can be seen with the words Enfield, CT printed on the sides. The modern town of Enfield was formed through the merging of Enfield, Thompsonville, and Hazardville, named for Colonel Augustus George Hazard (1802–1868), whose company manufactured gunpowder in the Powder Hollow area of the town from the 1830s to the 1910s. It was part of the Great Awakening revival that struck New England in the mid-18th century and spread throughout Western North American civilization.
Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon, " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", in Enfield. In 1749, following the settlement of a lawsuit in which it was determined that a surveyor's error placed a section of present-day Hartford County (including Enfield) within the boundaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became part of Connecticut. In 1734, the eastern part of town separated into the town of Somers. Shortly around 1700, the town changed its name to Enfield after Enfield in Middlesex, and to go with the other "fields" in the area such as Springfield, Westfield, and Suffield. It is unclear what claim Notatuck actually had to the land, or whether he was selling the land or the rights to use it. Five years later, on March 16, 1688, the townspeople purchased Enfield from a Podunk named Notatuck for 25 pounds Sterling. The namesake is the Freshwater Brook (Also known as the Asnuntuck Brook) that traverses the town. Enfield was incorporated in Massachusetts on as the Freshwater Plantation, the same day as the town of Stow, Massachusetts, making them the 52nd/53rd towns in the Colony. The first town meeting was held on Augand a committee of five were appointed by men from Springfield as it was the parent town at the time. In 1675, a sawmill owned by William Pynchon II was burned in the wake of King Phillip's War. They dug a shelter into a hill and camped there for the winter until their families came to help them build houses.
Though land grants were first granted in 1674, no one attempted to settle what is known as Enfield until 1679 when the Pease Brothers of Robert and John II, settlers from Salem, Massachusetts came in to settle the fertile lands. It is bordered by Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, to the north, Somers to the east, East Windsor and Ellington to the south, and the Connecticut River (towns of Suffield and Windsor Locks) to the west.Įnfield was originally inhabited by the Podunk tribe, and contained their two villages of Scitico and Nameroke. The population was 42,141 at the 2020 census. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. Enfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, first settled by John and Robert Pease of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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