Sterling Traffic Ticket Lawyer

Sterling, Connecticut

Sterling is a small rural town in the eastern reaches of Windham County, set against the Rhode Island line in the heart of Connecticut’s Quiet Corner. It began as part of Voluntown and incorporated on its own in 1794, taking its name from Dr. John Sterling, a temporary resident who promised the town a public library in exchange for the honor — a library that, by local account, never quite materialized, leaving the town with the name and the story. Bordered by Killingly, Voluntown, and Plainfield, Sterling has always been one of the more remote and lightly settled towns in the region.

Its economy was built on water and stone. The first mill opened on the Quandock River in 1800, and small textile and grist mills followed along the town’s streams. But the resource that proved most enduring was granite: quarrying began here in the 1850s, when Smith and Williams opened the operations that grew into an industry still active in town today, cutting the hard stone from Sterling’s ledges. The village of Oneco, named for Owaneco, the son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, grew up as one of the town’s small settlements.

For so small a town, Sterling produced a figure of national importance. Charles Dow, born here in 1851, went on to found Dow Jones & Company and to lend his name to the Dow Jones Industrial Average — the most famous measure of the American stock market. It is a quiet point of pride for a rural town that has otherwise stayed well off the beaten path.

The town’s traffic runs on a handful of roads. Route 14 and Route 14A carry the main flow east toward the Rhode Island line and west toward Plainfield and Interstate 395, with Route 49 running along the western edge. These roads see steady through traffic and periodic enforcement, with citations turning up along the busier stretches. We follow these roads and the equipment used along them, which is generally where the violations described below begin.