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  History of Canton, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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(Collinsville)

Visit Canton, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1806 - (Canton, CT) incorporated
  This rural town in western Hartford County is located on the Farmington River and lies on land originally part of Simsbury. After Canton’s...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1819 - Canton
  Canton, a post town in the western part of the county, being 13 miles northwesterly from Hartford, is bounded east on Simsbury, south on Farmington...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1826 - (Canton, CT) - The Collins Axe Company, founded in 1826, used early mass-production techniques and soon became the world-leading axe manufacturer.
  
  connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ canton/
  
  
• 1854 - Canton
  Canton, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, 12 miles N. W. of Hartford, intersected by Farmington river. Population, 1980.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• 1859
  CANTON, a township of Hartford co., in the state of Connecticut, 13 m. WNW of Hartford. Its surface is hilly, and its soil unproductive. Pop. 1,736.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
• 1869 - October 4 - Canton CT was deluged with 12.35 inches of rain.
  
  WeatherForYou.com
  
  
• 1886 - Canton
  CANTON* measures eight miles north and south, with a breadth east and west varying from one and a half miles at the north to three miles at the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Canton
  Canton, a post-township of Hartford co., Conn., is drained by Farmington River, and intersected by the Connecticut Western Railroad. It has 7...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Collins Company, Box, Packing & Handling Dept., Colinsville, Conn.
  museumofcthistory.org
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  Baptist Church, Canton, Ct.
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  East Main Street
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  Stone Mill, Collins Comp. Plant, Collinsville, Conn.
  museumofcthistory.org
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• 1916
  Canton, a post-village of Hartford co., Conn., in Can ton township (town), which is drained by the Farmington River, about 14 miles SE. of Winsted....Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  GRA-ROCK GINGER ALE
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