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Interstate 384 passes just south of the Manchester CDP, with access from Exits 1 through 5. Connecticut Route 83 passes through the center of Manchester as Main Street, leading north 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Interstate 84 in the northern corner of the town of Manchester and south 7 miles (11 km) to the Connecticut Route 2 freeway in East Glastonbury.
Manchester has parts of three interstate highways (I-84, I-384, and I-291) and Route 6 and Route 44 together constitute Manchester's principal east/west arterial. Connecticut Route 30 is an east/west arterial in the northern section of town. Connecticut Route 83 is Manchester's principal north/south arterial
Weatogue is in the southern part of the town of Simsbury and is bordered to the northwest by West Simsbury and to the northeast by Simsbury Center.The northern border of the CDP follows Town Forest Road, Stratton Brook Road, a small portion of U.S. Route 202, and Second Brook to its mouth in the Farmington River.
The Case Brothers Historic District is located in southeastern Manchester, isolated to some degree from the rest of the city by Interstate 384 to the northwest, and from other development by the rough terrain of Case Mountain to the south. The district includes a brick and wood-frame mill complex, dams and bridges built by the Case Brothers ...
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Manchester was settled in the 17th century, but remained an essentially agricultural community until the 19th century. Its industrial growth was spurred most significantly by the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing operation, established in 1838 and one of the most successful businesses of its type in the world. Main Street is a north-south ...
[61] [62] This 95 acre property cost $2.1million dollars, with a $1,086,000 grant from the State of Connecticut to help preserve this open meadow. [63] This property will serve as "land for passive recreation, wildlife habitat, community character along with water quality & storm water protection purposes". [63]
The Manchester Historic District encompasses a historic planned industrial and residential area of Manchester, Connecticut.Located west of the town's Main Street area, the district includes most of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District covering the silk manufacturing mills, worker housing, and owner residences of the Cheney family, as well as other ...