The purpose of the East Windsor Historical Society is to discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the civil, ecclesiastical and natural history of the Town of East Windsor in particular and the State of Connecticut in general. Its aim is to collect, preserve and publish historical and biographical material relating to the Town of East Windsor (including its villages: Broad Brook, Melrose, Scantic, Warehouse Point, and Windsorville). The East Windsor Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
Membership in the East Windsor Historical Society is open to anyone interested in providing historical and educational programs for the members and public, restoring the East Windsor Academy at Scantic, preserving the history of the town, and other projects.
The academy was built in 1817 by a company of stock-holders. Stephen Potwin, Israel Allen and Samuel Bartlett were the building committee. The lower floor was at once fitted up and used for a school room, and many of our townspeople were supposed to be assisted in their education there.
Ezra Stiles of Yale College was one of the earliest teachers, also Mr. Brown, who married a sister of Deacon Ira Wells. W. W. Woodworth, late a minister in Berlin, Conn., was on teacher. A Mr. Waldo taught both summer and winter, and some of the younger children attended his school.
Some pupils came from abroad. Spencer Clark from New York, brother of Ezra Clark, iron merchant of Hartford, was one, and Junius Morgan, the great banker, father of J. Pierpont Morgan, who died in London and was brought to Hartford for burial some years ago, was another. Both these young men boarded in the family of the pastor of the church, Rev. Shubael Bartlett.