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Manchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, comprising the urban center of the town of Manchester. As of the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 30,577, [ 1 ] out of 58,241 in the entire town.
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
Tolland County (/ ˈ t ɑː l ə n d / TAH-lənd) is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Connecticut.As of the 2020 census, its population was 149,788. [1] It is incorporated into 13 towns and was originally formed on October 13, 1785, from portions of eastern Hartford County and western Windham County.
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state.It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford.