[2] Poquonock (/pəˈkwɒnək/) is a northern area of Windsor that has its own zip code (06064) for post-office box purposes.

[3] Other unincorporated areas in Windsor include Rainbow and Hayden Station in the north, and Wilson and Deerfield in the south.

Eventually, the Podunk invited a small party of settlers from Plymouth, Massachusetts, to settle as a mediating force between the other tribes.

After Edward Winslow came from Plymouth to inspect the land, William Holmes led a small party, arriving at the site on September 26, 1633, where they founded a trading post.

In 1635, a party of around 30 people, sponsored by Sir Richard Saltonstall, and led by the Stiles brothers, Francis, John and Henry, settled in the Windsor area.

Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company acknowledged in a letter to Saltonstall that the Stiles party was the second group to settle Connecticut.

The first group of 60 or more people were led by Roger Ludlow, primary framer of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts.

[5] They had arrived in the New World five years earlier on the ship Mary and John from Plymouth, England, and settled in Dorchester.

Pynchon refused to buy it, attempting to teach the natives a peaceful lesson about integrity and reliability.

With Windsor's consent, Hartford commissioned the famous Indian fighter John Mason to travel to Springfield with "money in one hand and a sword in the other" to threaten the natives, and thereby force the grain trade.

[12][13] The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway, a trolley, connected with the Connecticut Company in Windsor Center until 1925.

Sidings at Windsor station allowed cars to be spotted at the freight house and on the Loomis trestle just to its south.

Following a fatal grade crossing accident, a three-track-wide plate girder bridge was installed to carry tracks over Palisado Avenue.

The Farmington River is dammed in the northwestern corner of Windsor to form the 234-acre (0.95 km2) Rainbow Reservoir.

[16] The Joseph Kesselring stage play and Frank Capra movie Arsenic and Old Lace was inspired by actual events that took place in a three-story brick house on Prospect Street, just off the north end of the Windsor green.

On historic Palisado Avenue, one can find the First Church in Windsor, Congregational, and adjacent graveyard.

[17] Across the street on the Palisado Green stands a statue of John Mason, a founder of Windsor and a colonial leader in the Pequot War.

It has a relative diversity of chains and local shops, as well as a restored Amtrak train station dating to the 1850s.

[20] Windsor is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:[22] Tobacco farming in Connecticut has a long history.

Approximately 34,000 acres (140 km2) of land in Connecticut is covered by Windsor Soil, named after the town.

[25] The movie Parrish, starring Troy Donahue and Karl Malden, was set and filmed in the tobacco farms of Windsor.

The Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum,[26] containing authentic farming implements and tools, can be found at Northwest Park in Windsor.

The legislative function is performed by a bipartisan Council of nine members, who are elected biennially for two-year terms.

Keney Park, in the south, straddles Windsor and Hartford; it includes cricket fields and a golf course.

It includes a nature center, trails and an animal barn showcasing a burro, sheep, chickens, goats, rabbits, ducks, and a turkey.

[61][62] This 95 acre property cost $2.1million dollars, with a $1,086,000 grant from the State of Connecticut to help preserve this open meadow.