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Manchester, urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S. It lies east of Hartford on the Hockanum River. The area was settled in 1672, when it was purchased from the Mohegan Indians by the Puritan clergyman Thomas Hooker and his company. Originally a part of Hartford (after 1694 in East Hartford) and called the Five-Mile Tract, it was organized as an ecclesiastical society called Orford Parish in 1772. In 1823 it was incorporated as a town and named for Manchester, England. It had sawmills and paper mills before the American Revolution. Subsequently, the Pitkin Glass Works, cotton mills, and especially silk mills (established in 1838 by the Cheney brothers) became important to the town’s economy, along with the manufacture of grandfather clocks, soap, farm implements, and carriages. The town’s modern industrial development is greatly diversified and includes aerospace and defense industries. Manchester Community-Technical College was opened in 1963. Area 27 square miles (71 square km). Pop. (2000) 54,740; (2010) 58,241.