The Town of East Hartford is located directly east of the capitol City of Hartford on the east bank of the Connecticut River,
encompassing a land area of 18.7 square miles. The Town is bordered by Glastonbury on the South, Manchester on the East ,
and South Windsor on the North. East Hartford is situated halfway between New York City and Boston. Regional and national
rail lines serve the Town and Bradley International Airport is twenty miles to the northwest.
The Connecticut River provides water access to Long Island Sound 30 miles to the south. East Hartford’s current population
(2000 Census) is 49,575.
East Hartford is the home of over 75 diversified manufacturing plants and 1,400 small businesses. Principal products include:
aircraft engines, soda bottling, optical character recognition systems, machine tools, dies, precision parts, aircraft engine parts,
winches, sheet metal fabrications, pneumatic valves, firearms, photo processing, printing paper products, marking machines,
electronic test equipment, and storage racks.
The Town serves as the corporate and general headquarters for the Pratt and Whitney Division of United Technologies,
which employs just under 30,000 world wide and 7,200 in East Hartford. Other significant employers include United Technologies
Research Lab, Fleet Bank, N.A. Data Processing Division, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of N.Y.,
State of CT Department of Information Technology, and Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center.
The Town has pursued a strategy designed to diversify its economic base from major reliance on a single industry.
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