ROCKVILLE  , a

city of Tolland county, Connecticut, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, on the Hockanum river, about 15 M . N.E. of Hartford . Pop . (189o) 7972; (19o0) 7287, of whom 2548 were foreign-born, many being Germans and Poles; (1910) 7977 . It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hart-ford railway and by electric lines . It is in the township of Vernon (pop. in 189o, 88o8; in 191o, 9087; area, 19 sq. m.), which was separated from Bolton township in 1808, and contains the villages of Vernon, Vernon Centre, Dobsonville and Talcottville . In the city are the George Maxwell Memorial Library and the Sykes Manual Training School . The river, by a series of falls, makes a descent of 28o ft. here, and furnishes power for large manufacturing establishments . The principal manufactures are woollen, silk and cotton goods, envelopes, sand silk fish-lines . In 1841 fancy cassimeres, probably the first manufactured in the United States, were made here . At the Hockanum Mills (established 1809) worsted for men's clothing was first made (about 187o) in the United States . The first settlement here was made about 1726 .

Rockville was chartered as a city in 1889 .