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In 1979, the Falls Village District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic district. The district represents about 70 acres (280,000 m 2 ) that were built in the middle of the 19th century as a result of the area being selected as a station stop for the Housatonic Railroad in the early 1830s. [ 8 ]
Canaan is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.The population was 1,080 at the 2020 census, [1] down from 1,234 at the 2010 census.The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region.
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Built in 1814 by Stephen Tefft, Dr. James Webb, Noadiah Comins, and Hezekiah Olney, the inn began as one of many public houses in the area. After Captain Vernon Stiles purchased it in 1830, it became Stiles Tavern and quickly gained popularity, boasting that “more stage passengers dined there every day than at any other house in New England.”
The grand ballroom at the former Marriott hotel in Farmington, which hosted decades worth of conventions and wedding receptions, is slated to become a complex of pickleball courts.
In addition to their industrial history, the Yantic Falls figure in the area's Native American history, as the supposed site of the last major battle between members of the Mohegan and Narragansett peoples during the Pequot War in the 1640s. The first known industrial use of the water power provided by the falls was a nail factory established ...
The village of East Litchfield sits at the crossroads of the highways that connect Waterbury and Torrington; Hartford and Litchfield and the Naugatuck River that connects communities from Bridgeport to Winsted. East Litchfield, like Bantam, Milton and Northfield are parts of the town of Litchfield and have been since the town was settled in 1721.
In 1937, the Connecticut General Assembly authorized the formation of the first regional school district in the state (hence the name of the new district, "Regional School District Number One"). The newly formed board of education purchased the 75-acre (300,000 m 2 ) former Lorch farm at the junction of the Salmon Kill and the Housatonic River ...