Daniels Energy: Reliable Propane Delivery In West Hartford, Connecticut

About West Hartford, Connecticut

From Farm To  Suburb

Daniels Energy has been providing home heating fuel and propane, cooling and heating services to families in West Hartford for more than nine decades…but of course, West Hartford’s been around a whole lot longer than that! According to archaeological evidence, the Wampanoag people used West Hartford as one of their winter camps. Fishing and hunting along the Connecticut River, the area of West Hartford offered the Wampanoag people a refuge from the cold winter wind and the river’s severe spring flooding.

In 1672 the Proprietors of Hartford ordered that a Division be created to the West. A total of “72 Long Lots” were laid out between today’s Quaker Lane in the East and Mountain Road in the West. The northern boundary was Bloomfield, and the Southern, present day New Britain Avenue. The area was referred to as the “West Division” of Hartford and remained the official name until 1806 when Connecticut General Assembly started referring to it as “the Society of West Hartford.” It is believed that the first homesteader to West Hartford was Stephen Hosmer whose father was in Hooker’s first group of Hartford settlers and who later owned 300 acres just north of the present day Center.

For nearly a century the property would be handed down throughout the family. Evidence still remains of the Town’s first industry, as Stephen Hosmer’s mill pond and dam can still be found today on the westernmost side of North Main Street. By the time of the American Revolution, the once rugged wilderness had been largely clear and a new agricultural-based community had developed with a population of just over 1,000 residents and 3,000 sheep. At its core was the parish meeting house. The First Congregational Meeting House was built around 1712. Now in its 5th building, the church stands proudly at what is now the southeast corner of Main Street and Farmington Avenue.

By the late 19th century, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad ran through part of Elmwood in the southeast corner of town. A variety of companies cropped up in this area including Whitlock Coil Pipe Company in 1891, and later Royal Typewriter, Wiremold, Abbot Ball, Colt’s Manufacturing and Uncle Bill’s Silver Grippers (producer of tweezers). The largest of West Hartford manufacturers was Pratt & Whitney (now Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, which later lent its name to Pratt & Whitney, the aerospace corporation headquartered in East Hartford). In 1940 it built a plant on 20 acres and at the height of World War II it employed over 7,000 people.

By the 1880s, Hartford began to experience an economic boom. As such Hartford’s business leaders began building their mansions along Prospect Avenue. Prospect Hill, situated on a one-mile-long ridge boasting impressive views of the burgeoning city, became the area’s most prestigious address. Prospect Avenue is adjacent to Elizabeth Park, designed by acclaimed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1896 and named for the wife of Charles M. Pond, who bequeathed the land to the City of Hartford

In 1895, Wood, Harmon and Company created one of the town’s first subdivisions on property known as Stanley Farm, a tract sloping upward from the trolley line that then ran along Farmington Avenue, across from Reservoir No. 1.
Other developments followed including “Elmhurst” in Elmwood (1901), and Sunset Farm (1917). One of the most exclusive of these early developments was West Hill. Located on the former estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of the famous financier and transportation magnet, it was the brainchild of Horace R. Grant.

Designed by some of Hartford’s best architects in the 1920s, West Hill is significant historically because it is an excellent example of a planned real estate development of the early 1920s that proceeded under specific design restrictions to achieve outstanding success as a well-crafted and prestigious neighborhood. The architecture is characteristic of the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles popular in the period. It was declared a National Historic District in 1996.

Propane Delivery Services in West Hartford, Connecticut

Propane deliveries can be made almost anywhere on your property, as long as it is easily accessible by our delivery vehicles and the tank’s location and condition are verifiably safe. Easily accessible, propane tanks can be filled and maintained outside of your home. Placed in out of the way areas or hidden from view by landscaping, above ground tanks are the perfect fuel delivery solution for many homeowners.

Emergency Propane Delivery Service To West Hartford CT

Our 24/7/365 emergency propane deliveries and emergency service, as well as our always professional and courteous services means you can always rely on Daniels Energy’s Propane service  to exceed your expectations in the West Hartford, CT area. We provide propane truck delivery services in Middlesex, New London, and New Haven counties. Contact us today to get your propane delivered now!