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The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
It was the Palace of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, called then Edificio de las Casas Reales, and it is the first (oldest) headquarters of Spanish power in the New World. [ 2 ] The building dates back to the sixteenth century, and was built to house the administrative offices of the Spanish colonies in the Americas , at the time any ...
Map of the counties of colonial Connecticut, 1766.. There are eight counties in the U.S. state of Connecticut.. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and the New Haven Colony combined.
The Joseph Carpenter Silversmith Shop is a historic building that was built between 1772 and 1774 on the green in Norwichtown, now a section of Norwich, Connecticut.It is a 30 feet (9.1 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m) 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story clapboarded building with a gambrel roof.
Fairfield was one of the two principal settlements of the Connecticut Colony in southwestern Connecticut (the other was Stratford).The town line with Stratford was set in May 1661 by John Banks, an early Fairfield settler, Richard Olmstead, and Lt. Joseph Judson, who were both appointed as a committee by the Colony of Connecticut. [6]
Mystic is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut, United States.. Mystic was a significant Connecticut seaport with more than 600 ships built over 135 years starting in 1784. [4]
A farming town in the 18th century, Woodstock began attracting industry after the War of 1812. "By 1820, there were 2 distilleries, 2 wheel wrights, an oil mill, fulling mill, carding machines, grist mills, saw mills, a goldsmith, and twine and cotton batting operations.
Middlefield, in Middlesex County, is so named because it is halfway between Middletown and Durham, and Middletown and Meriden.For such a small community, Middlefield has an abundance of wonderful history that goes back to the late 17th century and many first settlers of Connecticut.