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The town center of Thomaston is located at one of the heads of Muscongus Bay, directly adjacent to the mouth of the Saint George River on Maine's Mid Coast.This area was first explored by Europeans in the early 17th century, and was the site of trading post for Native Americans in 1630.
The Thomaston CDP is slightly east of the geographic center of the town of Thomaston, on the west side of the Naugatuck River and its valley. It extends to the south as far as Watertown Road, to the west beyond Hillside Cemetery and to Northfield Brook, to the north to a power line south of D. Welton Way, and to the east to Williams Street, Electric Avenue, and the Naugatuck River.
Thomaston is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 7,442 at the 2020 census. [4] The urban center of the town is the Thomaston census-designated place, with a population of 1,928 at the 2020 census. [5]
The name Thomaston has been used to describe the area since the middle part of the 19th Century. [3] William R. Grace, a prominent local who would eventually become the Mayor of New York City, acquired a large area of land around the Long Island Rail Road's Great Neck station; the land he acquired included all of present-day Great Neck Plaza.
Examples of services provided include police and fire protection, maintenance of roads or public recreation facilities, or to provide various utilities. A special tax district has the right under Connecticut law to levy taxes on real estate and personal property within its borders. This tax is in addition to any taxes owed to parent town.
Thomaston is the name of several places in the United States of America: Thomaston, Alabama; Thomaston, Connecticut, a New England town Thomaston (CDP), Connecticut, the main village in the town; Thomaston, Georgia; Thomaston, Indiana; Thomaston, Maine, a New England town Thomaston (CDP), Maine, census-designated place within the town ...
In office 1885–1886: Preceded by: Franklin Edson: ... reduced the tax rate, ... a prominent ship builder of Thomaston, Maine, and Mary Jane (née Smalley) Gilchrest.
A tax collector at work – from an illustration by Henry Holiday in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876). A tax collector (also called a taxman) is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations on behalf of a government. The term could also be applied to those who audit tax returns or work for a revenue agency.