WINSTED, Conn., city, one of the county seats of Litchfield County, on the Mad and Still rivers, and on the Central New England and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, about 26 miles northwest of Hart ford. It is in an agricultural region, and is the commercial and industrial centre for quite an extent of country. The Mad River furnishes considerable water power, which is utilized for manufactories for cutlery, clocks, sheet brass, brass novelties, bolts, chain hoists, spool silk, edge tools, pins, hosiery and undertakers' sup plies. The town of Winchester, in which is the city of Winsted, had, in 1914 (government census), 147 manufacturing establishments, capitalized at $4233,578, and employing 3,168 wage-earners. The %aloe of the annual prod ucts was $4,131,327. From 1914 to 1919 the manufacturing industries have increased; the number of employees is now about 4,000.
The educational institutions are Gilbert (high) school. Saint Margaret of Cortona Academy, public and parish schools and the Memorial and Gilbert School libraries. Located in Win sted arc the Litchfield County Hospital of Winchester, and the William L Gilbert Home for Indigent Children. There are four banks, which in 1918 had deposits amounting to $4,537,534. Winsted receives considerable water power from Highland Lake, a body of water on the western side of the city; and the water supply comes from Crystal Like The place was settled in 1736. The town of Winchester war founded in 1771. Winsted was incor porated as a borough in 1858, and town and borough governments were consolidated in 1915. The town government is vested in a commission of five selectmen. Pop. about 9,000.