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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. Main Street is a north-south ...
The Case Brothers Historic District encompasses a complex of homes, business, and recreational properties belonging to a prominent papermaking family in Manchester, Connecticut. The Case family owned and operated a paper mill from 1862 until 1967, built architecturally sophisticated residences, and minimally developed what is now the Case ...
The Manchester Historic District encompasses a historic planned industrial and residential area of Manchester, Connecticut.Located west of the town's Main Street area, the district includes most of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District covering the silk manufacturing mills, worker housing, and owner residences of the Cheney family, as well as other ...
The mansions of the Cheney family are located in a 70-acre (28 ha) area east of the mills; this is a park-like area including 13 primary buildings, the oldest of which is the original 1780s Cheney Homestead, now a historic house museum owned by the Manchester Historical Society. These houses were built from the early 19th century into the early ...
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.
Manchester has parts of three interstate highways (I-84, I-384, and I-291) and Route 6 and Route 44 together constitute Manchester's principal east/west arterial. Connecticut Route 30 is an east/west arterial in the northern section of town. Connecticut Route 83 is Manchester's principal north/south arterial
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). It is located on the south side of Burnham Road ...