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In 1720 a party of eight men, originally from England, bought 16,000 acres of the region and called it Wellington. [4] Willington was incorporated in May 1727. [5] Named "Wellington," in May 1725, from Wellington, Somersetshire, the birthplace of Roger Wolcott's grandfather Henry Wolcott. However, when incorporated in May 1727, the town's name ...
As of 2007, there are still a few restaurants and diners that offer blue-plate specials under that name, sometimes on blue plates, but it is a vanishing tradition. A collection of 1930s prose gives this definition: "A Blue Plate Special is a low-priced daily diner special — a main course with all the fixins , a daily combo, a square for two ...
In 1956, brothers and diner owners Jack and Harold Berkowitz bought a restaurant named Maraczi's that sold hotdogs and hamburgers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The brothers needed to put a name on the paperwork and they decided to name the restaurant after Dutchess County, New York, without the "T". After the renaming, the Duchess fast food chain ...
Willington Common Historic District is a historic district that includes the town green, Willington Common, of the town of Willington, Connecticut.The common and the surrounding buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The South Willington Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village of South Willington in the town of Willington, Connecticut.The village, mostly stretched along Connecticut Route 32, developed as a 19th-century industrial mill village associated with the Gardiner Hall Jr. Company.
The Wellington Farm Historic District encompasses a historic farm property at 487—500 Wellesley Street in Weston, Massachusetts.Included in the 35-acre (14 ha) district are a main house built c. 1760, a barn complex with buildings dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, a modern greenhouse, and farm fields lined by stone walls.
Valbella is an Italian restaurant in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Connecticut with sister locations in Midtown Manhattan and the Meatpacking District, Manhattan. [1] Regulars included Joe Torre , "almost the entire Yankees team " [ 2 ] and Regis Philbin , who was a Saturday night regular for 22 years; his regular table was left empty in ...
Shanghai Restaurant: Historic Place Category 2: 120–126 Courtenay Place: 3640: Hooson's Building: Historic Place Category 2: 55 Courtenay Place: 3641: Wellington Gas Company Building (Former) Historic Place Category 2: 58–64 Courtenay Place: 3642: Ford Motor Company Workshops: Historic Place Category 2: 3–9 Ebor Street: 3643: Wellington ...