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The East Weatogue Historic District is a 490-acre (200 ha) historic district in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It then included 102 contributing buildings , 10 contributing sites , 11 contributing structures , and one other contributing object . [ 1 ]
The John Humphrey House is located in Simsbury's rural East Weatogue area, on the west side of East Weatogue Road north of its junction with Talcott Mountain Road. It is a two-story frame house, five bays wide, with a centered entry and a large central chimney. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards.
The original settlement of Weatogue is in the eastern part of the CDP, at the junction of US 202 (Hopmeadow Street) with Canal Street and Stratton Brook Road. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 3.02 square miles (7.81 km 2 ), of which 3.00 square miles (7.76 km 2 ) is land and 0.019 square miles (0.05 km ...
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In the 1920s, the Weatogue-Hartford route was a primary state highway known as Highway 115. It ran along modern Route 185 to Route 218 then used modern Route 218 to connect to modern US 44. Route 185 was established in 1932, [2] running north–south from US 44 in West Hartford to the current western terminus. In 1935, Route 218 was established ...
Alice Merritt (1876–1950), first woman to serve in the Connecticut State Senate (1925–1929); born in Simsbury [39] Elisha Phelps (1779–1847), congressman from Connecticut [ 40 ] Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910), Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935), born in ...
Route 154 was established in 1932 as a renumbering of old State Highway 338. [2] Its original route started at US 1 in Old Saybrook Center and followed Main Street then College Street to Saybrook Point, then continued through Fenwick along Maple Avenue to end at itself just south of the town center.
Here, Route 167 turns east onto West Street and continues for another 0.7 miles (1.1 km) before ending at an intersection with US 202 and Route 10 in Simsbury Center. [1] A section of Route 167 from Harris Road in Avon to the Simsbury-Avon town line is designated the First Company Governor's Horse Guards Memorial Highway. [3]