Thompsonville, Connecticut

Thompsonville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Enfield in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

Orrin Thompson, from whom the community takes its name, built a dam across Freshwater Brook in 1828 and opened the first carpet mill in 1829.

Initially its product was largely flat-woven ingrain carpeting, an inexpensive type of carpeting, but over time it added more expensive weaves, such as three-ply ingrain and loop brussels.

[2] Carpeting continued to be manufactured in Thompsonville until 1971, by which time most production had shifted to the southern United States.

U.S. Route 5 (Enfield Street) is the main road through the village, leading north to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and into Springfield, and south through East and South Windsor to East Hartford.

Panoramic map of Thompsonville with images of sights inset