PUTNAM  , a

city and the county-seat of . Windham county, Connecticut, U.S.A., in the township of Putnam, on the Quinebaug river, at the mouth of the Mill river, in the N.E. part of the state, about 6 m. from the Rhode Island boundary and about 71 M. from that of Massachusetts . Pop . (1900), of the town-ship (including the city), 7348; of the city, 6667 (2012 being foreign born); (1910) 6637 . Putnam is at the intersection of two branches of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and is connected by electric line with Worcester, Norwich and Providence . The city is the seat of two Roman Catholic institutions, St Mary's Convent and Notre Dame Academy, and has a public library and an endowed hospital . The Quinebaug and Mill rivers 'provide excellent water-power . The township (named in honour of General Israel Putnam) was incorporated in 1855, and the city was chartered in 1895 .