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It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?
 
Nostical said:
It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?
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Gene Pitney.
 
Nostical said:
It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?
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Nostical said:
It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?
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Evil Knievel?
 
Nostical said:
It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?
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Gene Pitney "Only love can break a heart"
 
A town without pity

Cara mia
 
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Windham4th said:
Bill Romanowski was from Rockville wasn't he?
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I lived in the same housing project as Bill Romanowski back in the day, on Plain Drive in East Hartford. I was 3 and he was 2.
 
ZooCougar said:
Did the Spring Game fall on Opening Day again?

Edit: Why does CT still bother with having an Opening Day?
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I think because they stock the streams with trout and they don't want anyone getting a head start.
 
Waquoit said:
I think because they stock the streams with trout and they don't want anyone getting a head start.
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I think now you can catch them beforehand but you just can’t keep them.

I used to love opening day, the fish were like Christmas presents.
 
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Nostical said:
It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville.
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It was two different, adjacent towns that joined forces. Vernon got the town name, Rockville the high school.
 
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Rockville is a historic village and census-designated place located within the town of Vernon, Connecticut. Though it was once an independent city and a world-class center for textile manufacturing, it consolidated with Vernon in 1965.

This is not unusual in Connecticut. Storrs is a village in Mansfield. Hazardville is a village in Enfield.
 
Palatine said:
Rockville is a historic village and census-designated place located within the town of Vernon, Connecticut. Though it was once an independent city and a world-class center for textile manufacturing, it consolidated with Vernon in 1965.

This is not unusual in Connecticut. Storrs is a village in Mansfield. Hazardville is a village in Enfield.
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And if you are in Huntington, you are a resident of the city of Shelton.
 
Windham4th said:
Bill Romanowski was from Rockville wasn't he?
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No, I believe he lived in Vernon. Rockville is a section “town of” Vernon. He went to Rockville High. I grew up in Rockville just down the street from the Gene Pitney home. Rockville is mostly the poorer side of Vernon. I was embarrassed to admit to being from Rockville, but looking back at it now living next to Henry Park was a great place to grow up.
 
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DW1361 said:
No, I believe he lived in Vernon. Rockville is a section “town of” Vernon. He went to Rockville High. I grew up in Rockville just down the street from the Gene Pitney home. Rockville is mostly the poorer side of Vernon. I was embarrassed to admit to being from Rockville, but looking back at it now living next to Henry Park was a great place to grow up.
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For what it's worth, in CT many "vills" are the poorer section of town because they were the company town. Think Collinsville for the Collins Company. Or Terryville for the Eli Terry Company. Or Tariffville for the Tariff Manufacturing Company. This not a hard rule by any means, but many "vills" were company towns.
 
CCSUblue said:
For what it's worth, in CT many "vills" are the poorer section of town because they were the company town. Think Collinsville for the Collins Company. Or Terryville for the Eli Terry Company. Or Tariffville for the Tariff Manufacturing Company. This not a hard rule by any means, but many "vills" were company towns.
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Didn't know this!
 
DW1361 said:
No, I believe he lived in Vernon. Rockville is a section “town of” Vernon. He went to Rockville High. I grew up in Rockville just down the street from the Gene Pitney home. Rockville is mostly the poorer side of Vernon.
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That's Johnny Rivers

 
And God forbid you find yourself in Union City, where would you be?
 
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