Litchfield County is in northwestern Connecticut.As of the 2020 census, the population was 185,186. The county was named after Lichfield, in England. Litchfield County has the lowest population density of any county in Connecticut and is the state's largest county by area.. Litchfield County comprises the Torrington, CT Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included …

Fairfield County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut.It is the most populous county in the state and was also its fastest-growing from 2010 to 2020. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 957,419, representing 26.6% of Connecticut's overall population. The closest to the center of the New York metropolitan area, the county contains …

Meriden was incorporated as a city in 1867, with just under 9,000 residents. It was once proposed as the Connecticut state capital. It was named for the village of Meriden, West Midlands, England, near Birmingham. The oldest house in town still standing, built by Solomon Goffe in 1711, became a museum in 1986.

A major north–south highway, Interstate 91, with two Cromwell exits, runs through the Town. The Central Connecticut Expressway (Route 9), opened at the end of 1989, enhances the Town's location as it connects I-95 in Old Saybrook, I-91 in Cromwell and I-84, the State's major east–west highway in New Britain.

History. Plainville first was inhabited by Europeans around 1650. By the 1660s, the land was incorporated as land for nearby Farmington.In the year 1869, it separated from Farmington due to the distance of the town center and the growth of Plainville downtown due to the installation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad.

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.It was one of the world's three busiest whaling ports for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts.The wealth that whaling brought into the city …

At the beginning of the 17th century, the area today known as Simsbury was inhabited by indigenous peoples.The Wappinger were one of these groups, composed of eighteen bands, organized not as formally as a tribe, but more of an association, like the Delaware.These bands lived between the Hudson and Connecticut rivers. The Wappingers were one of the …

Milford is a coastal city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, located between New Haven and Bridgeport.The population was 50,558 at the 2020 United States Census. The city includes the village of Devon and the borough of Woodmont.Milford is part of the New York-Newark Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City.Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut. Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City" because it was the center of the American hat industry for a period in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Coastal Connecticut (including Old Saybrook) is the broad transition zone where so-called "subtropical indicator" plants and other broadleaf evergreens can successfully be cultivated. Old Saybrook averages about 90 days annually with freeze (temperatures of 32 F/0 C) – about the same as Baltimore, Maryland, or Albuquerque, NM, for example.