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This list of museums in Connecticut contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
The Union Village Historic District encompasses the core of a historic 19th-century residential mill village in Manchester, Connecticut.Radiating north and west from the junction of Union Street and North Main Street, the area was developed in the first half of the 19th century has a company town, but evolved into a mixed working-class community in the 20th century.
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 ...
The Case Brothers Historic District is located in southeastern Manchester, isolated to some degree from the rest of the city by Interstate 384 to the northwest, and from other development by the rough terrain of Case Mountain to the south. The district includes a brick and wood-frame mill complex, dams and bridges built by the Case Brothers ...
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 ...
The mansions of the Cheney family are located in a 70-acre (28 ha) area east of the mills; this is a park-like area including 13 primary buildings, the oldest of which is the original 1780s Cheney Homestead, now a historic house museum owned by the Manchester Historical Society. These houses were built from the early 19th century into the early ...
The Science and Innovation Park is a research and cultural site near Swindon, England.Part of the Science Museum Group, the 545 acres (221 ha) Park hosts a range of research and development activity, filming and photography projects, storage for culture sector partners and other commercial activity.
Interstate 384 passes just south of the Manchester CDP, with access from Exits 1 through 5. Connecticut Route 83 passes through the center of Manchester as Main Street, leading north 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Interstate 84 in the northern corner of the town of Manchester and south 7 miles (11 km) to the Connecticut Route 2 freeway in East Glastonbury.