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495 Phoenixville Road, Chaplin, CT 06235

Windham County Connecticut

 Phone: (860) 455-0073

 Fax: (860) 455-0027

 Email: assistant@chaplinct.org

LEGAL NOTICE - TOWN OF CHAPLIN ANNUAL TOWN MEETING - MAY 12, 2025 @ 7PM, CHAPLIN SENIOR CENTER AND ADJOURNED REFERENDUM ON MAY 20, 2025, 12 PM - 8 PM @ THE CHAPLIN VOLUNTEER FIREHOUSE, 106 PHOENIXVILLE ROAD, CHAPLIN CT

TOWN OF CHAPLIN FINAL APPROVED BUDGET PROPOSAL FY 2025-2026

CHAPLIN BUDGET REFERENDUM SAMPLE BALLOT

5/6/2025 RD 11 Referendum Results

Chaplin

Yes  

76

No

140   

Hampton

Yes

104  

No  

162

Scotland

Yes

37

No

47

Regional Results

Yes

217

No

349

BUDGET FAILED

Chaplin History from 1822 - 1972

A little bit of Chaplin history...

An extraordinary early 19th century building boom and a 20th century road improvement project created Chaplin, a village suspended in time.  In the late 1700s, residents of what is now Chaplin had no town of their own.  Their lands were divided among Mansfield, Hampton and Windham. To attend church, they had to travel a considerable distance over bad roads, often in inclement weather.  Benjamin Chaplin, a wealthy deacon of the Mansfield church, who built his home on the Natchaug River, was among those who regularly made this long and uncomfortable trip to attend to his duties.  Before Chaplin died in 1795, he bequeathed three hundred pounds ($1,500) to form an ecclesiastical society charged with building a new meeting house on the condition that this church be built within a mile and a quarter of his homestead.

    

The Chaplin church was built between 1812 and 1815 on Chaplin Hill, a knoll along the highway a half mile from Chaplin's home.  Then, between 1820 and 1850, approximately 25 homes, a tavern, a general store, a dry goods store and a merchant's store were built adjacent to the church along a curved portion of the major north-south route that paralleled the Natchaug River. As a consequence, the majority of the houses that line the Chaplin Village street were built within a single thirty-year period. In 1822, the residents of this new village negotiated with the towns of Mansfield, Hampton and Windham to incorporate Chaplin, named in honor of the town's benefactor. Chaplin Street, as it is now called, became a mile long cut-off when State Route 198 was straightened in 1929, thus leaving most of the village homes intact and creating a unique study in time in northeastern Connecticut.  In July 1974, Chaplin Village was designated a Historic District to preserve the character of the buildings and their settings for future generations. 

Natchaug River Map: