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Harkness Memorial State Park is a historic preservation area with botanical garden and recreational features located on Long Island Sound in the town of Waterford, Connecticut. The state park 's 304 acres (123 ha) center around Eolia , a 42-room Renaissance Revival mansion with formal gardens and greenhouses .
Waterford is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Waterford, Ireland. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 19,571 at the 2020 census. [2] The town center is listed as a census-designated place (CDP) and had a population of 3,074 at the 2020 census. [3]
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Granite quarrying became a larger business in the 19th century, and was the town's largest non-agricultural industry. The Graniteville community arose in the 1840s and 1850s as a cluster of housing for quarry workers along Rope Ferry Road, which was then the major east-west road between New London and Lyme. [2]
Waterford is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village in the town of Waterford, New London County, Connecticut, United States. It is in the southeastern part of the town, bordered to the east by the city of New London. U.S. Route 1 (Boston Post Road) passes east–west through the community.
The Quaker Hill Historic District encompasses the center a mainly residential village in northeastern Waterford, Connecticut.Running in a mostly linear fashion along Old Norwich Road between Connecticut Route 32 and Richard Grove Road, the area first grew as a settlement of religious non-conformists in the 17th century, developed in the 19th century as a small industrial village, and became ...
Pages in category "Waterford, Connecticut" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Harkness Memorial State Park; Hartford Colony; I.
Jordan Village is located on land known historically as Jordan Plain, a flat land area at the head of Jordan Cove, an estuary off Long Island Sound.The historic district is centered on the intersection of Rope Ferry Road and North Road, two important early roads, providing access to New London to the east, the Niantic River ferry to the west, and the agricultural interior to the north.