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The Hartford and West Hartford Horse Railroad was incorporated in 1863 to run horsecar service on Farmington Avenue. It was later electrified and extended to Unionville as the Farmington Street Railway, following Farmington Avenue except for a small section of private right-of-way in eastern Farmington.
Farmington has been called the "mother of towns" because its vast area was divided to produce nine other central Connecticut communities. The borough of Unionville, in Farmington's northwestern corner, was once home to many factories harnessing the water power of the Farmington River. Farmington is steeped in New England history.
Route 167 begins as West Avon Road at an intersection with Route 4 in the Unionville section of the town of Farmington.It proceeds in a northeast direction, crossing into the town of Avon after 0.7 miles (1.1 km).
Unionville is the name of some places in North America: Canada. Unionville, Ontario. Unionville GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the ...
The route from Plainville to Unionville was designated in 1922 as State Highway 160, while that from Unionville to Canton center was known as State Highway 320. In the 1932 state highway renumbering , [ 2 ] these two state highways were combined into a single route, Route 177.
Iron Horse District - Northeastern Pennsylvania Council, BSA (Pennsylvania This page was last edited on 30 August 2023, at 04:14 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Formerly known as "The Hollow", [2] Lime Rock became a center of the iron industry with the establishment by Thomas Lamb of a forge in the village around 1734. As the iron industry expanded, Lime Rock later became the home of the Barnum and Richardson Company, which made it the capital of the historic iron industry of the upper Housatonic Valley.
Connecticut's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Connecticut.Located in the western part of the state and spanning across parts of Fairfield, Litchfield, New Haven, and Hartford Counties, the district runs from Meriden and New Britain in central Connecticut, westward to Danbury and the surrounding Housatonic Valley, encompassing the Farmington Valley ...