champion sprinter and track coach Stephanie A. Gallagher (born 1972), United States District Judge Alice Belle Garrigus (1858–1949), Evangelist & Founder-Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland & Labrador, Born in Rockville William Churchill Hammond (1860-1949), organist and music educator, born in Rockville. Edward Stevens Henry (1836–1921), U.S. Congressman Morgan Lewis (1906–1968), songwriter and Broadway theatre composer Dwight Loomis (1821–1903), U.S. Congressman Dwight Marcy (1840–1887), Connecticut State Representative Mary Mattingly (born 1979), visual artist Ralph Murphy (1895–1967), film director Stuart J. Murphy (born 1942), children's book author Kenneth North (1930–2010), U.S. Air Force brigadier general Bob Pease (1940–2011), analog integrated circuit design expert and technical author Charles Phelps (1852–1940), lawyer, state legislator, and Connecticut's first attorney general Gene Pitney (1940–2006), internationally known singer/songwriter, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, born in Hartford, raised in Rockville Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), artist Bill Romanowski (1966–present), NFL linebacker, born in Vernon, graduated from Rockville High School in 1984 Antoni Sadlak (1908–1969), U.S. Congressman See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Tolland County, Connecticut References External links Official Web Page for the town of Vernon Community Web Page Another Community Web Page Vernon Historical Society A Walk Through Rockville's Past... The Loom City Revisited – Walking tours through historic Rockville Map of Rockville CDP and Rockville Historic District Vernon, Connecticut Census-designated places in Tolland County, Connecticut Former municipalities in Connecticut Villages in Connecticut Historic districts in Tolland County, Connecticut Villages in Tolland County, Connecticut Census-designated places in Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Tolland County, Connecticut Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Populated places disestablished in 1965