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Place Name
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Hebron
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Pronunciation
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HEE-bruhn
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Population
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7,079 (1990)
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Location
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Tolland County, Connecticut (CT), United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°38'N
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Longitude
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72°23'W
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Hebron
(HEE-bruhn), town (1990 pop. 7,079), Tolland
co., E central Conn., on Salmon R., and
18 mi/29 km SE of Hartford; 41°38'N
72°23'W. In agr. area. Includes Gilead and Amston villages and Amston
L. (c.1 mi/1.6 km long). Rev. Samuel Peters,
Tory author of exaggerated account of Conn. “blue laws,” lived
here. Has 18th-cent. houses. Settled 1704, inc. 1708.
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