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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 ...
Members of the Basset family were amongst the early Norman settlers in the ... 5th Earl of Leicester (1908–1976) [29] of Holkham Hall in Norfolk. Deemed the ...
The exact date of the foundation of the market at Mancroft is not recorded, but it is known to have been operational by the time the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086. [1] Granting the right to trade in Norman England was a part of the Royal Prerogative and, as with most fairs and markets of the period, the market at Mancroft was operated ...
Settlers of Norwalk, Connecticut (33 P) Pages in category "Settlers of Connecticut" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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The English name "Normans" comes from the French words Normans/Normanz, plural of Normant, [17] modern French normand, which is itself borrowed from Old Low Franconian Nortmann "Northman" [18] or directly from Old Norse Norðmaðr, Latinized variously as Nortmannus, Normannus, or Nordmannus (recorded in Medieval Latin, 9th century) to mean "Norseman, Viking".
Connecticut owned this territory until selling it to the Connecticut Land Company in 1795 for $1,200,000, which resold parcels of land to settlers. In 1796, the first settlers, led by Moses Cleaveland, began a community which was to become Cleveland, Ohio; in a short time, the area became known as "New Connecticut".
After founding Seville in 1509, Spanish settlers moved to a healthier site which they named Villa de la Vega. The English renamed it Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655. 1536 San Pedro Sula: Cortés: Honduras: 1539 Zuni Pueblo: New Mexico: United States Ferguson, T.J. (1985). A Zuni Atlas. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma ...