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Thomas Lee House: East Lyme: 1660 Began as a one-room house, museum since 1897. [5] Deacon John Moore House: Windsor: 1664 Crossing summer beams. Moore was also a woodworker known for using the foliated vine design, which depicts vines and blossoms carved in shallow relief with flat surfaces. NRHP. [6] Acadian House: Guilford: 1670
Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. [3] The population was 8,192 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region .
Litchfield County is a county in northwestern Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 185,186. [1] The county was named after Lichfield, in England. [2] Litchfield County has the lowest population density of any county in Connecticut and is the state's largest county by area.
Many of the immigrants in the Litchfield Hills area came from Italy, Ireland, Lebanon, Poland, and Slovakia. Later in the 20th century, many of these industries declined or relocated, producing conditions similar to the Midwestern rust belt, but on a smaller scale. Today, tourism remains an important industry for the Litchfield Hills.
A farm auction in Derby, Connecticut, September 1940.. Agriculture played a major role in the early growth of Connecticut as one of the original 13 colonies that would form the United States of America, particularly in the Connecticut River valley which provides fertile soil, temperate climate and easy access to markets.
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Weir Farm National Historic Site, which straddles the Ridgefield-Wilton border, preserves much of the farm of J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), a painter of the American Impressionism style. The property was later used by his son-in-law, Mahonri Young (1877–1957), noted sculptor and a grandson of Brigham Young. The site includes the Weir Farm Art ...
Litchfield County: 005: Litchfield: 1751: From parts of Fairfield, Hartford and New Haven Counties: City of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 185,000: 920 sq mi (2,383 km 2) Middlesex County: 007: Middletown: 1785: From parts of Hartford and New London Counties: Former county of Middlesex, England 164,759: 369 sq mi (956 km 2) New Haven County ...