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Elmwood is a neighborhood in West Hartford, Connecticut that encompasses the area south of Interstate 84 and east of South Main Street, extending to the borders of neighboring Newington and Hartford. It is primarily a middle-class and working-class enclave of 10,800 residents composed mostly of postwar single-family homes and duplexes.
Politicians from New Britain, Connecticut (1 C, 23 P) S. Sportspeople from New Britain, Connecticut (40 P) W. Writers from New Britain, Connecticut (19 P)
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Hartford.The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region.The population was 64,083 at the 2020 census.
Evergreen Cemetery was established around 1860, but it does not appear to have been used extensively, except by the Chidsey family, until recent years. It was not included in the Hale census of Connecticut cemeteries conducted in the 1930s. The white-marble Chidsey obelisk is one of the chief objects of historical interest.
In 2010, the Stanley Works, also of New Britain, purchased Black and Decker, now called Stanley Black & Decker. Corbin family plot, New Britain, Connecticut. Corbin is buried at Fairview Cemetery in New Britain. In May 1999, the Corbin Monument at the cemetery was noted as the second-tallest private family grave marker in the country. [3]
Shade Swamp Shelter – US 6 E of New Britain Ave. (added 1986) Stanley-Whitman House – 37 High St. (added November 15, 1966) West End Library – 15 School St., Unionville (added 2000)
William M. "Boss" Tweed (1823–1878), famously corrupt New York City official Thomas Watson Jr. (1914–1993), IBM President and 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (born 1931), Connecticut Governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative
New Britain was settled in 1687 and incorporated as a new parish as the New Britain Society in 1754. [6] Chartered in 1850 as a township and in 1871 as a city, New Britain had separated from the nearby towns of Farmington and Berlin , Connecticut.