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Collinsville is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,746 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] The central portion of the village is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in various online maps.
The Canton Historical Museum in Collinsville is located in a building of the former Collins Axe Company, founded by Samuel W. Collins and one of the first ax factories in the world. It displays a 19th-century general store, a post office, a printing press and blacksmith and barber shops.
The Collins and Company Works factory buildings in Collinsville, Connecticut on the Farmington River, viewed from Connecticut Route 179. Samuel Watkinson Collins (1802–1870) was an American businessman and founder of the Collins Axe Company in Canton, Connecticut. He was born September 8, 1802, in Middletown, Connecticut, one of
Historic mills along the Farmington River in the Collinsville section of Canton, Connecticut. A stone arch bridge built in 1867 which still spans the Farmington River in Windsor , Connecticut. The Saville Dam impounds the East Branch Farmington River to form Barkhamsted Reservoir .
Collinsville Historic District (Collinsville, Connecticut), listed on the NRHP in Connecticut Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Collinsville Historic District .
Extending mainly along Connecticut Route 179, near the geographic town center, is a well-preserved example of a rural agricultural center in Connecticut, a role served until about 1920. The district includes many examples of Late Victorian and Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] [2]
The Town Bridge is located in a rural-residential setting of southwestern Canton, north of the village of Collinsville and about 0.1 miles (0.16 km) west of Connecticut Route 179 on Town Bridge Road. It is a single-span Parker truss, with a total length of about 172 feet (52 m), and a height above the river of about 12.5 feet (3.8 m).