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Roxbury is a rural hill community in northwestern Connecticut, just east of New Milford.Originally part of Woodbury, it was separately incorporated in 1796.It was established as a separate parish of Woodbury in the 1730s, with a church built at a small settlement southeast of the present town center.
Although Connecticut is divided into counties, there are no county-level governments, and local government in Connecticut exists solely at the municipal level. [2] Almost all functions of county government were abolished in Connecticut in 1960, [3] except for elected county sheriffs and their departments under them. Those offices and their ...
Both events are held at the fairgrounds at High Plains Community Center near the center of town. Orange was the site of one of the earliest computer camps, [27] [28] held at the local Amity Jr. High School in 1977. In the early nineteenth century, settlers from Orange founded Orange, Ohio, then part of Connecticut's Western Reserve.
Darien Downtown is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.It represents the built-up center of town around the intersections of U.S. Route 1 (Boston Post Road), Connecticut Route 124 (Mansfield Avenue), and Connecticut Route 136 (Tokeneke Road).
Due to its proximity to the state capital at Hartford, Wethersfield is the site of several State of Connecticut agencies: The Department of Motor Vehicles office and testing location at 60 State Street. The Department of Labor is headquartered at 200 Folly Brook Boulevard. The Department of Correction is headquartered at 24 Wolcott Hill Road.
Putnam Science Academy has entered and won the Connecticut Science Olympiad for four years in a row (2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, and 2007–2008). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Putnam was also featured in a mid-1970s summer game show on ABC, "Almost Anything Goes", where teams from towns under 20,000 were invited to compete.
Goshen is in central Litchfield County and is bordered to the east by the city of Torrington.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Goshen has a total area of 45.2 square miles (117.0 km 2), of which 43.6 square miles (113.0 km 2) are land and 1.5 square miles (4.0 km 2), or 3.44%, are water. [2]
Columbia is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 5,272 at the 2020 census. [1] Originally a part of Lebanon, known as the North Society or Lebanon's Crank, [2] Columbia was incorporated in May 1804. The town was named for patriotic reasons after the national symbol "Columbia". [3]