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The Cheshire Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Cheshire, Connecticut. Centered on the junction of Main Street and Academy Road, the district's architecture is reflective of the town's development over two centuries, and includes many of its civic buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Bishop's Orchards began operating as a family farm in 1871 (154 years ago) (). [1] Over the years, Bishop's Orchards expanded to a 313-acre (1.27 km 2) farm, with the Bishop family members maintaining control of all duties ranging from corporate decision-making to retail operations to crop maintenance. In 2007, the Bishop family members created ...
Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər / CHEH-shurr), formerly known as New Cheshire Parish, [3] is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. At the time of the 2020 census, the population of Cheshire was 28,733. [4] The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The center of population of Connecticut is located in Cheshire. [5]
The community's 18th-century farms were located along a north–south road from Bristol to New Haven (now Marion Avenue) that passed through the area. [ 4 ] During the American Revolutionary War , the Marion community was the site of an encampment by French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and his troops.
New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 U.S. census, [2] New Haven is the third largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport and Stamford, the largest city in the South Central Connecticut Planning Region, and the principal municipality ...
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Farmington Canal State Park Trail is a Connecticut state park forming a portion of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail in the towns of Cheshire and Hamden.The developed section of the trail within state park boundaries runs over 17.0 miles (27.4 km) from Lazy Lane in Southington to Todd Street in Hamden and includes the historic Farmington Canal's restored Lock 12, located south of Brooksvale ...
A farm auction in Derby, Connecticut, September 1940.. Agriculture played a major role in the early growth of Connecticut as one of the original 13 colonies that would form the United States of America, particularly in the Connecticut River valley which provides fertile soil, temperate climate and easy access to markets.