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Kensington is a census-designated place (CDP) and section of the town of Berlin in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The Berlin town offices are located in Kensington. The population was 8,459 at the 2010 census. [1] The Henry Hooker House is a historic home in Kensington.
Berlin (/ ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / BUR-lin) is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States.The population was 20,175 at the 2020 census. [2] It was incorporated in 1785.
The library was relocated to a new facility at 234 Kensington Road in 1989. [1] The library serves a population of 20,137. The total collection consists of 107,364 items (94,646 print). Special collections include town histories of Berlin, East Berlin and Kensington in the David and Ann Borthwick Local History Room.
Congregation Agudath Sholom (transliterated from the Hebrew for "association (or guild) of peace") is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at Strawberry Hill Avenue, in Stamford, Connecticut, in the United States.
Annual visitation is over 25,000. [15] In addition to the Stowe House, the Center manages an 1873 carriage house, which now serves as the visitor's center, and the Katharine Seymour Day House (1884). The Stowe Center preserves the house and center's collections, with a research library that includes letters and documents from the family.
The Kensington Soldiers' Monument is located in front of the Kensington Congregational Church, at the junction of Percival Avenue and Sheldon Street in Berlin's Kensington neighborhood. The memorial is a brownstone obelisk 20 feet (6.1 m) in height, mounted in a two-part base 28 inches (71 cm) in height. Each face of the obelisk is engraved ...
Congregation Beth Israel's first synagogue was built at 21 Charter Oak Avenue in Hartford in 1876. Though Beth Israel left the building in 1936, the building is occupied by the Charter Oak Cultural Center. It is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States. [7]
Three more encampments emerged under bridges in Kensington in the wake of the El Campamento sweep, and those were shut down in the summer of 2018. In January 2019, the Jim Kenney administration shut down the last major bridge encampment in Kensington on Emerald Street. In January 2020, the city cleared an encampment at 18th and Vine Streets.