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Lisbon is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, 7.3 miles (11.7 km) by road northeast of Norwich. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region . The population was 4,195 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined. Windham and Litchfield counties were created later in the colonial ...
A 32.10-mile (51.66 km) stretch of Route 169, running from Rocky Hollow Road in Lisbon to the Massachusetts state line, is a designated National Scenic Byway and state scenic road known for its vibrant autumn foliage and historic communities. [5] [6] The entire route within Connecticut is also designated the General Israel Putnam Highway. [1]
The CT postcode area, also known as the Canterbury postcode area, [2] is a group of 21 postcode districts in South East England, within 13 post towns. These cover much of east Kent , including Canterbury , Dover , Folkestone , Birchington , Broadstairs , Deal , Herne Bay , Hythe , Margate , Ramsgate , Sandwich , Westgate-on-Sea and Whitstable .
Haskell House, (a.k.a. “Andrew Clark House”) stands in a rural area of central Lisbon, on the west side of Ross Hill Road about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Connecticut Route 138. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure built in 1798 by Capt. Andrew Clark. It is five bays wide with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney.
The town of Sprague was incorporated in 1861, formed from portions of the towns of Lisbon and Franklin. [4] A few years earlier, in 1856, former Rhode Island Governor and U.S. Senator William Sprague III of Rhode Island had laid out plans to build "the largest mill on the Western Continent" in eastern Connecticut, only to die later that year. [5]
The Capitol Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut. It is served by the coterminous Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG).In 2022, planning regions were approved to replace Connecticut's counties as county-equivalents for statistical purposes, with full implementation occurring by 2024.
Waterford is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the primary village in the town of Waterford, New London County, Connecticut, United States.It is in the southeastern part of the town, bordered to the east by the city of New London.