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Plainville first was inhabited by Europeans around 1650. By the 1660s, the land was incorporated as land for nearby Farmington.In the year 1869, it separated from Farmington due to the distance of the town center and the growth of Plainville downtown due to the installation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad.
The Charles H. Norton House, also known as Sharpenhoe, is a historic house at 132 Redstone Hill in Plainville, Connecticut.Built in 1922, this brick Georgian Revival house was the home of inventor and machinist Charles Hotchkiss Norton (1851–1942), a Plainville native, from 1922 until his death.
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However, in the 2009-2010 school year the sports teams will compete in the Central Connecticut Conference in the South Division. [8] In baseball, the main rivalry is with Berlin High School (Connecticut). The Plainville Sports Hall of Fame was created in 1998. [9]
John H. Trumbull, a Plainville native and Connecticut's Governor from 1925 to 1931, is known to have used the airfield. He was dubbed "The Flying Governor". [5] In 1990 the Tomasso family completed renovation and expansion of the 3,600-foot (1,100 m) runway. [6] The Town of Plainville had explored a purchase of the airport beginning in 1995.
The Congregational Church of Plainville stands on the south side of West Main Street (Connecticut Route 372) at its junction with Church Street.The main church building is a single-story timber frame structure, covered with a steeply pitched gable roof. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, with wooden pseudo-buttresses at the corners ...
The New Haven District Campground, also known as the Plainville Campground, is a historic Methodist camp meeting site on Gladding Avenue in Plainville, Connecticut.Opened in 1865, the campground was used by Connecticut Methodists to partake in the 19th-century trend of religious and recreational camp meetings, and is now a secular community of summer homes.
Plainville is the name of numerous places in the United States of America: . Plainville, Connecticut; Plainville, Georgia; Plainville, Illinois; Plainville, Indiana ...