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Stemming from a heritage of historic culture, Manchester is home to the second-oldest operating pipe band in the United States, the Manchester Pipe Band, a grade 2 pipe band, which was founded in 1914. [17] Cheney Hall is the home of The Little Theater of Manchester, a 60 year old community theater group.
The theatre company grew from Manchester Actors' Platform in 2016 before developing into a fully-fledged theatre and events space. The theatre was initially housed at in the old Bauer Millet garage on Albion Street, Manchester, relocating to a temporary unit on South King Street before moving into its current, fully accessible site on Watson Street in 2021.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Manchester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, comprising the urban center of the town of Manchester. As of the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 30,577, [ 1 ] out of 58,241 in the entire town.
One of the mall's entrances. The main building has an area of 1,082,708 square feet (100,587 m 2) on two floors.However, the name "Buckland Hills Mall"' can informally refer to the mall plus the cluster of surrounding retail stores, hotels, and restaurants on the hill, totaling nearly 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m 2) or 1/4 square mile.
Critic fellows from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT travel to the Goodspeed each summer to practice reviewing full productions. [4] Goodspeed Musicals is also home to the Scherer Library of Musical Theatre, which houses the largest musical theatre research facility in the United States. They have also built state-of-the-art ...