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The Norfolk Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of Norfolk, Connecticut. Centered around a triangular green at the junction of United States Route 44 and Connecticut Route 272 , it is a well-preserved late 19th to early 20th-century town center, with a number of architecturally distinctive buildings and ...
Norfolk is in northwestern Connecticut, in the Litchfield Hills.It includes the Norfolk Historic District, which covers the historic center of the village, but also extends west to include Old Colony Road, Blackberry Street, and Valley View Road, north to include Shepard Road, east to include Laurel Way and Beacon Lane, and south to include Highfield Road, Grant Street, and Battell Road. [2]
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A new Norman town was built west of the Castle, in an area known as Mancroft. [1] [note 1] The new town at Mancroft included a market of its own to provide for the Norman settlers and merchants moving into the area, and possibly also to supply the castle's garrison. [1]
The road between Torrington and Norfolk was originally designated as a secondary state highway in 1922, known as Highway 312. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, old Highway 312 was renumbered to Route 49. On May 1, 1954, Route 72 was extended north from Bristol all the way to Norfolk
The two first settlers, Richard Olmsted and Nathaniel Ely, arrived from Hartford in 1649. They were followed by fourteen others. They were followed by fourteen others. Norwalk was incorporated on September 11, 1651, when the General Court of the Connecticut Colony decreed that "Norwaukee shall bee a townee".
[13] [14] Several of the colony's settlers were veterans of the Thirty Years' War. [15] Among these settlers was Lion Gardiner, who was in charge of constructing the fort and planning the town. [16] As the fort was being constructed, Gardiner's wife Mary gave birth to a son, David, the first European child born in Connecticut. [1]
Richard Holmes (earlier spelled Richard Homes) (c. 1633 —1704) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.. Holmes was born about 1633, in York, England, the son of Francis Holmes and his first wife, whose name is unknown.