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Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. [3] The population was 8,192 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region .
Modern US 202 in Litchfield County was originally part of CT 25 (New Milford to Torrington) and CT 4 (Torrington to Canton.) The portion between Danbury and New Milford was then just US 7. In 1963, CT 4 was shifted southward with CT 25 extended along modern US 202 to Canton. In 1974, US 202 was moved to its modern alignment.
New Haven - Naugatuck - Watertown - Litchfield: Route 69, Litchfield Turnpike, Route 63: New Milford and Litchfield Turnpike: October 1797: New Milford - New Preston - Bantam: U.S. Route 202: Boston Turnpike: October 1797: East Hartford - Manchester - Mansfield - Ashford - Pomfret - Thompson - Massachusetts (Ninth Massachusetts Turnpike)
In Farmington, it once again joins I-84 at exit 38 for 13.4 miles (21.6 km), passing through West Hartford, Hartford, and East Hartford. US 44 joins for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to cross the Connecticut River on the Bulkeley Bridge from Hartford to East Hartford toward Bolton just past the eastern terminus of I-384.
In the Hartford area, Farmington Avenue east of Route 10, from Farmington to downtown Hartford, used to be part of the original U.S. Route 6 alignment. When US 6 was rerouted in 1956, Farmington Avenue was assigned to an extended Route 4. The route designation was later truncated to end in West Hartford where state maintenance of the road ended.
Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial era, while Middlesex and Tolland counties were created after American independence (both in 1785).
U.S. Route 7 (US 7) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway which runs 78 miles (126 km) in the state of Connecticut.The route begins at Interstate 95 (I-95) in Norwalk starting out as a four-lane freeway until the Wilton town line.
Litchfield County is a county in northwestern Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 185,186. [ 1 ] The county was named after Lichfield , in England. [ 2 ]