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Roughly bounded by CT 4, Beach, Mill and Milton Sts., and Thompson Rd. 41°49′32″N 73°15′16″W / 41.8256°N 73.2544°W / 41.8256; -73.2544 ( West Goshen Historic Goshen
The West Goshen Historic District is a historic district in the village of West Goshen in the town of Goshen, Connecticut, United States.It encompasses a well-preserved early 19th-century industrial village, with twenty historically significant properties in the village, most of which lie on Connecticut Route 4 between Beach Street and Thompson Road.
Goshen is in central Litchfield County and is bordered to the east by the city of Torrington.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Goshen has a total area of 45.2 square miles (117.0 km 2), of which 43.6 square miles (113.0 km 2) are land and 1.5 square miles (4.0 km 2), or 3.44%, are water. [2]
Goshen Historic District is a historic district encompassing the town center village of Goshen, Connecticut. [2] Centered at the junction of Connecticut Routes 4 and 63, the village developed historically as a rural crossroads of two turnpikes, and has retained its rural character. It is dominated by residential architecture from the first half ...
Goshen is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. People from Goshen, Connecticut (24 P)
In 1905, the American Woolen Company built the largest mill in the world, the Wood Mill in Lawrence, followed by the neighboring Ayer Mill in 1909. The Ayer mill's 22 foot diameter 4-sided clocktower is only a foot smaller than Big Ben and purportedly only second to it in size in the world (among chiming 4-sided clocktowers).
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The mill closed when the company moved operations to North Carolina in 1985. [ 18 ] Major employers include Willimantic Waste Paper Company, which specializes in the collection and recycling of fiber products, scrap metal, and co-mingled plastic refuse, [ 34 ] as well as Brand-Rex Corporation, which maintains a manufacturing making specialty ...