Map of Newington, Connecticut in 2026

If you grew up in Newington, or you’ve ever walked around Mill Pond to watch the falls at the Waterfall Festival, you’ll find your town on this map just as it stands in 2026. Look for your road. Main Street, Willard Avenue, Cedar Street, Berlin Turnpike, Church Street, Robbins Avenue, Fenn Road, Maple Hill Avenue, New Britain Avenue and Starr Avenue are all printed by name, along with many more.

Newington is in Hartford County, just south of the city of Hartford.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded land, from Newington Junction in the north to Cedar Mountain in the east, comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets and the town line come from the Census Bureau. Newington Junction, Elm Hill and Market Square are printed by name. A guide of 34 numbered landmarks runs along the bottom, with the National Register sites marked, and we checked those against National Park Service records.

The New Town in the Meadow

Newington began as the western farmland of Wethersfield, a place rich in timber for barrel staves and in pasture for cattle, and early names for it included West Farms and Pipestave Swamp. Almost everyone who settled here descended from Wethersfield’s first families. In 1721 the western farmers asked the General Assembly to give their land the name Newington, “the new town in the meadow,” and the Assembly agreed, though it took another 150 years for Newington to become a town.

In 1798 the Hartford and New Haven Turnpike, today’s Berlin Turnpike, was laid through it, and businesses soon followed. The railroads came in the 1830s. In 1871 Newington had 871 people and about 130 farms, and when Wethersfield’s leaders refused to pay for better roads to the railroad, the town declared its independence on July 10. That’s the year on the title panel: Incorporated 1871. Trolleys arrived in 1894, and Newington grew into a suburb of homes. Click here to learn more about the history of Newington.

The Town Center and Mill Pond

The cluster of numbers in the middle of the map is the town center, with Newington Town Hall (24), the Newington Police Department (29) and the Lucy Robbins Welles Library (28), which opened in 1939 and was enlarged in 1988. Mary Welles Park (21) and the Old Firehouse Museum (25) are close by, and the guide also lists the Newington Post Office (8) and FedEx Office (18).

Near the center is Mill Pond Park (3). Its 16-foot falls, named for a sawmill built there in 1860, appear on the town seal and are billed as the smallest natural waterfall in the country. A path circles the pond and crosses the falls on a footbridge, and since 2000 the town has celebrated them each September with the Waterfall Festival. On Willard Avenue is the Kellogg Eddy House & Museum (13), a Federal house of about 1808, built by William Kellogg for his son Martin, who helped start a local academy in 1829. Elford Welles Eddy bought the farm in 1913 and kept a dairy herd there, and the town bought the house from his widow in 1975. It’s now a museum run by the local historical society, and it was listed on the National Register in 1987. Newington High School (9), Alumni Field (2) and the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System Newington Campus (34) are to the west.

About half a mile south of the center, on Main Street, is the Enoch Kelsey House (7). Enoch Kelsey, a farmer and tinsmith, built it with his son David around 1799, near the New Britain line. In 1979 it was set to be torn down for a highway project, and volunteers from the Newington Historical Society found rare wall decorations inside, painted freehand. They raised the money to save it, and on November 15 and 16, 1979, the house was moved to its present site. It’s a museum today, listed on the National Register in 1982. Robbins Green (20) is beside it.

Newington Junction

In the north, near the Hartford line, is Newington Junction, where the line from New Haven meets the line from Bristol and Waterbury. The railroad here helped Newington break away from Wethersfield. The Newington Junction Railroad Depot (15) and its freight house were built in the 1890s to replace a station of the 1850s, and passenger trains stopped here until about 1959. Today the CTfastrak busway follows the old branch line, and the bus stop that opened beside the depot in 2015 is Newington Junction Station (27). Cedar Street Station (22), farther south on the busway, opened the same year.

The old houses around the junction are grouped into three National Register districts: the Newington Junction North Historic District (16) and Newington Junction South Historic District (33) along Willard Avenue, and the Newington Junction West Historic District (32) along West Hill Road, with houses from the late 1700s to the early 1900s. Starr Park (1) is close by.

East of the junction is the headquarters of the American Radio Relay League, the ARRL Headquarters and W1AW (14). Hiram Percy Maxim of West Hartford urged the Radio Club of Hartford to organize amateur radio operators in 1914, and the league grew into a nationwide network. After Maxim died in 1936, the league built a memorial station here with his old call sign, W1AW, on rural land bought from Elsie Starr. It was dedicated on September 2, 1938, and the headquarters beside it was built in 1963.

Iwo Jima Memorial and the South End

In the west, near the New Britain line, is National Iwo Jima Memorial Park (30). The memorial, by the sculptor Joseph Petrovics, was put up by the Iwo Jima Survivors Association of Newington and dedicated on February 23, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the flag raising. It honors the servicemen who gave their lives in the battle, and the base bears the names of the 100 Connecticut men among them.

In the south of town are John Wallace Middle School (11), the Deming-Young Farm (6), Churchill Park (19) and the Clem Lemire Recreation Complex (31). The Connecticut Department of Transportation Headquarters (17) is in Newington too. Martin Kellogg Middle School (12) is in the north, the Newington Greenway (23) is in the east, and Indian Hill Country Club (10) is just southwest of the center. The guide also lists Candlewyck Park (4), Candlewyck Open Space (26) and the Balf Nature Preserve (5).

This map of Newington makes a handsome addition to a living room, office, library or den, and it can even help teach children the geography and history of the town. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who calls Newington home, grew up here, or moved away. Created by KNOWOL in 2026, it’s printed on museum quality archival paper in three sizes. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Newington map.

Sources

• Newington, ConnecticutHistory.org
• Newington, Connecticut, Wikipedia
• Gen. Martin Kellogg House, Wikipedia
• Enoch Kelsey House, Wikipedia
• Enoch Kelsey House, National Register nomination, National Park Service
• Newington Junction, Wikipedia
• Newington Junction station, Wikipedia
• Cedar Street station, Wikipedia
• W1AW, Wikipedia
• Amateur Radio Comes of Age in Connecticut, ConnecticutHistory.org
• National Iwo Jima Memorial, Wikipedia