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Enfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, with a population of 42,141. It was settled in 1679 by the Pease brothers from Salem, Massachusetts, and has a history of gunpowder manufacturing and religious revival.
A two-mile stretch of Enfield Street, the main road of Enfield, Connecticut, with diverse residential architecture from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The district includes the town common, the Congregational Church, the former town hall and the Orrin Thompson house.
The Enfield settlement, was founded in the 1780s, and lasted until 1917. There were three distinct centers of development, called "families" by the Shakers. [3] In 1930, 1600 acres of the former settlement were purchased by the State of Connecticut to establish a new prison farm[3]; eventually becoming the state's largest prison complex.
The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Mills were the largest employer in Enfield for many years, and one of the largest textile firms in the state. Founded in 1828 by Orrin Thompson on the banks of Freshwater Brook, the company became one of the nation's largest manufacturers of carpeting, employing more than 13,000 workers in Thompsonville at its height in the 1920s.
Route 220 is a 7.95-mile-long (12.79 km) state route in northern Connecticut and western Massachusetts, serving the southeastern suburbs of Springfield.The route runs in an "L" pattern and connects the town of Enfield, Connecticut, to the town of East Longmeadow.
CT 190 and CT 192, Hazardville, Connecticut and vicinity: ... The Hazardville Historic District is a historic district in the Hazardville section of Enfield, ...
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial ...
Enfield Public Schools is a school district located in Hartford County, in Enfield, Connecticut.The district's boundaries are coterminous with those of the town. Approximately 5,000 students, grades Pre K–12, attend the Enfield Publ