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The Board of Directors elects a Mayor from its membership for the two year term, and also appoints the General Manager. [31] Manchester is represented in the Connecticut General Assembly by State Representatives Jason Rojas (D-9), Jeffrey Currey (D-11), Geoff Luxenberg (D-12), and Jason Doucette (D-13), and by State Senator MD Rahman (D-4). [32]
Manchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, comprising the urban center of the town of Manchester. As of the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 30,577, [ 1 ] out of 58,241 in the entire town.
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.
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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.
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The Edward L. Burnham Farm house stands in the northwestern corner of Manchester, in a formerly rural-residential setting. The farm's 100 acres (40 ha) have been reduced by the construction of Interstate 291 and industrial development, and the farmstead now stands on about 1.5 acres (0.61 ha).