When Torrington\'s first English settlers, Ebenezer Lyman Jr.
A railroad line completed in 1849 linked the town with larger population centers and furthe.
Although the town grew steadily, it was only in 1813, when Frederick Wolcott built his woolen mill on the banks of the Naugatuck River, that Torrington was set on the path to becoming a significant manufacturing center. and his wife, Sarah, arrived in the hills of northwest Connecticut in 1737, they found little more than a lonely wilderness.
When Torrington\'s first English settlers, Ebenezer Lyman Jr