Willimantic, CT Mobile Home for Sale

Statues of massive frogs perched atop spools of thread greet drivers as they travel over the bridge that connects the southern residential section of Willimantic to downtown. The copper statues honor the two things that put this Connecticut community on the map: the American Thread Co., which was once the biggest thread mill in the country, and the Great Windham Frog Fight. Accounts of the frog incident have varied over the years, but all agree that sometime in the mid-1700s, townspeople were startled awake by a screeching noise. The French and ...