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Manchester was settled in the 17th century, but remained an essentially agricultural community until the 19th century. Its industrial growth was spurred most significantly by the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing operation, established in 1838 and one of the most successful businesses of its type in the world. Main Street is a north-south ...
Interstate 384 passes just south of the Manchester CDP, with access from Exits 1 through 5. Connecticut Route 83 passes through the center of Manchester as Main Street, leading north 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Interstate 84 in the northern corner of the town of Manchester and south 7 miles (11 km) to the Connecticut Route 2 freeway in East Glastonbury.
Manchester has parts of three interstate highways (I-84, I-384, and I-291) and Route 6 and Route 44 together constitute Manchester's principal east/west arterial. Connecticut Route 30 is an east/west arterial in the northern section of town. Connecticut Route 83 is Manchester's principal north/south arterial
The Union Village Historic District encompasses the core of a historic 19th-century residential mill village in Manchester, Connecticut.Radiating north and west from the junction of Union Street and North Main Street, the area was developed in the first half of the 19th century has a company town, but evolved into a mixed working-class community in the 20th century.
The Manchester Historic District encompasses a historic planned industrial and residential area of Manchester, Connecticut.Located west of the town's Main Street area, the district includes most of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District covering the silk manufacturing mills, worker housing, and owner residences of the Cheney family, as well as other ...
The Cheney Brothers district encompasses a 175-acre (71 ha) area of South Manchester, bounded roughly on the south by Interstate 384 on the west by Fairfield Avenue, on the north by West, High, Laurel, Forest, and Eldridge Streets, and on the east by Chestnut and Spruce Streets. The centerpiece of the district is a collection of sixteen ...
Pages in category "Manchester, Connecticut" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Main Street Historic District (Manchester, Connecticut)
The Case Brothers Historic District is located in southeastern Manchester, isolated to some degree from the rest of the city by Interstate 384 to the northwest, and from other development by the rough terrain of Case Mountain to the south. The district includes a brick and wood-frame mill complex, dams and bridges built by the Case Brothers ...