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  2. Main Street Historic District (Cromwell, Connecticut) - Wikipedia

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    Cromwell was settled in the 17th century, and remained predominantly agricultural in character well into the 19th century. It had a small but locally important port on the Connecticut River , which declined in the 19th century, and Main Street afterward became the principal economic and civic area of the town.

  3. List of museums in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Edward E. King Museum, East Hartford, information, collection of aviation and tobacco memorabilia, [29] now spread throughout the East Hartford Public Library but not as a separate museum; Farm Implement Museum, Bloomfield - was dedicated to the history of farming in New England and displayed farm tools dating from the 1790s [30] [31]

  4. Cromwell, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Ripperger had studied at the Holy Apostles College and Seminary located in Cromwell, CT. Josiah Belden, born in Upper Houses in 1815, he left the town in 1831. He was a member of the first wagon train taking settlers to California in 1841. There, he became wealthy running a general store during the Gold Rush.

  5. Middletown Upper Houses Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Between CT 99 and the Connecticut River, Cromwell, Connecticut Coordinates 41°35′19″N 72°38′28″W  /  41.58861°N 72.64111°W  / 41.58861; -72

  6. List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    November 13, 1966 (Hartford: Hartford: Originally designated solely to encompass Armsmear, the home of arms maker Samuel Colt, this historic district was expanded in 1988 to include the Colt Armory, as well as worker housing and Colt Park.

  7. American Clock & Watch Museum - Wikipedia

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    The American Clock & Watch Museum (ACWM), located in Bristol, Connecticut, is one of a very few museums in the United States dedicated solely to horology, which is the history, science and art of timekeeping and timekeepers. Located in the heart of the historic center of American clockmaking, ACWM is the world's preeminent horological museum in ...

  8. Xpect Discounts - Wikipedia

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    Xpect Discounts was a retail chain which started as a drug store then expanding into a full grocery store, consisting of seven stores in western Connecticut operating from the 1980s-2016. Xpect Discounts was operated by Clevelander Marc Glassman, who previously founded Marc's , which currently has nearly 60 stores in the Cleveland, Akron ...

  9. The Shoppes at Buckland Hills - Wikipedia

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    One of the mall's entrances. The main building has an area of 1,082,708 square feet (100,587 m 2) on two floors.However, the name "Buckland Hills Mall"' can informally refer to the mall plus the cluster of surrounding retail stores, hotels, and restaurants on the hill, totaling nearly 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m 2) or 1/4 square mile.