Bristol

City in Hartford County, west-central Connecticut, 25 km/16 mi southwest of Hartford on the Pequabuck River; population (1992) 64,100. Products include clocks, tools, and machinery parts.

Bristol was first settled in 1727 and incorporated as a city in 1911. Known as the clockmaking capital of the USA, the city has the American Clock and Watch Museum; Bristol has been a clockmaking centre since the 1790s. It was a hotbed of Tory activity during the Revolution; the name Tory's Den was given to a cave on Chippens Hill.