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2. Tranquility Farm - Wikipedia

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   Tranquility Farm is a historic summer estate located on Tranquility Road in Middlebury, Connecticut.The estate was developed in the 1890s by industrialist John H. Whittemore, with architectural design by the noted firm of McKim, Mead & White, and landscape design by Charles Eliot and Warren H. Manning.

3. Geography of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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   Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or inn, several colonial houses, and so on, establishing a scenic historical appearance maintained for both historic preservation and tourism. Many of the areas in southern and coastal Connecticut ...

4. List of National Natural Landmarks in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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   Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Bartholomew's Cobble: October 1971: Canaan: Litchfield: private Open space preserve, agricultural preserve, and bio-reserve primarily located in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts and edging into Canaan, Connecticut.

5. Charles Downing Lay - Wikipedia

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   Always planning further improvements, he often experimented in growing new plants. In 1947, shortly before retirement, Lay bought 85 acres (340,000 m 2) in Lyme, Connecticut, near Selden Creek, where he spent time with his wife and family during the summers. He described this land as "farm grown to woods which I subconsciously had been longing ...

6. List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States

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   The oldest surviving botanical garden in the United States is Bartram's Garden in Pennsylvania. [1] [2]This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.

7. Geology of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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   During Ice Ages, glacial activity shaped much of New England’s landscape, eroding mountains, leaving glacial till scattered everywhere, and forming glacial lakes. At its greatest extent, one of these glaciers left behind a moraine which became today's Long Island.