Our society was founded in 1972 to preserve, record and make available to the public, information and documents on local history. We provide educational seminars to local schools.

The society, with some of its members as guides, conduct historic walking tours featuring highlights of our community.

We offer an open invitation to everyone with an interest in Putnam history to become members of the Aspinock Historical Society of Putnam, CT.

Originally known as Aspinock, then part of Killingly, Putnam was incorporated in 1855, carved out of Killingly, Pomfret, and Thompson and named in honor of General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary War fame. Some of the early settlers led the expansion to the Northwest Territory in 1787.

One of the first cotton mills in the country was built here in 1806. With the availability of waterpower and the opening of the railroad in 1840, textile industries flourished. After the mill district was ravaged by the flood of 1955, the Industrial area of Putnam was rebuilt