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Tolland, Connecticut, the Glossary

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1722 establishments in Connecticut
Populated places established in 1722

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Area codes 860 and 959

Area codes 860 and 959 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bulk confectionery, pick and mix candy, candy walls, or simply loose candy is a retailing strategy where various types of confectionery are sold together in a large container or in separate bins, allowing customers to select the assortment and quantity they prefer.

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Calvin Willey

Calvin Willey (September 15, 1776August 23, 1858) was an American politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate from 1825 to 1831.

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Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

The Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Charles R. Ladd

Charles Rensselaer Ladd (April 9, 1822 – October 27, 1903) was an American attorney and politician who served as Massachusetts Auditor.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Continental climate

Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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Councils of governments in Connecticut

In Connecticut, councils of governments, also known as COGs, are regional planning organizations that bring together the chief elected officials or professional managers from member municipalities in Connecticut.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Coventry, Connecticut

Coventry is a town in Tolland County and in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. Tolland, Connecticut and Coventry, Connecticut are Greater Hartford.

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Daniel Benton Homestead

The Daniel Benton Homestead is a historic house museum and the oldest house in Tolland, Connecticut.

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Daniel C. Burbank

Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

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Death of Abdul Wali

Abdul Wali was an Afghan farmer who died in United States custody on June 21, 2003, at the age of 28.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Edward K. Beale

Edward K. Beale is an author and retired United States Coast Guard Commander.

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Ellington, Connecticut

Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Tolland, Connecticut and Ellington, Connecticut are Greater Hartford.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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General election

A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of an elected body, typically a legislature.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Tolland, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut are Greater Hartford.

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Henry D. Cogswell

Henry Daniel Cogswell (March 3, 1820 – July 8, 1900) was an American dentist and a crusader in the temperance movement.

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Hicks-Stearns Family Museum

The Hicks-Stearns Family Museum is a Victorian historic house museum located on the town green in Tolland, Connecticut.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.

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Interstate 84 (Pennsylvania–Massachusetts)

Interstate 84 (I-84) is an Interstate Highway in the Northeastern United States that extends almost 375 miles (603 km) from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, near Scranton at an interchange with I-81 east to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, at an interchange with the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90).

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James Stevenson (actor)

James Stevenson (born March 25, 1981) is an American actor known for portraying Jared Casey on the NBC daytime drama Passions.

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Jonathan H. Hubbard

Jonathan Hatch Hubbard (May 7, 1768September 20, 1849) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Loren P. Waldo

Loren Pinckney Waldo (February 2, 1802 – September 8, 1881) was an American politician from Connecticut who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.

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Mansfield, Connecticut

Mansfield is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Tolland, Connecticut and Mansfield, Connecticut are Greater Hartford.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Massachusetts State Auditor

The state auditor of Massachusetts is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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My Soul to Take

My Soul to Take is a 2010 American slasher film produced, written, and directed by Wes Craven, marking the first time he's worked as all three since Wes Craven's New Nightmare in 1994.

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Nancy Wyman

Nancy S. Wyman (born April 21, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician who was the 108th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, from 2011 to 2019.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New England town

The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Old Tolland County Jail and Museum

The Old Tolland County Jail and Museum is a historic jail in Tolland, Connecticut.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Pre-kindergarten

Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom-based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts).

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Pyrrhotite

Pyrrhotite (pyrrhos in Greek meaning "flame-coloured") is an iron sulfide mineral with the formula Fe(1-x)S (x .

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Ratcliffe Hicks

Ratcliffe Hicks (1843–1906) was an American lawyer, industrialist, state legislator, and philanthropist from Tolland, Connecticut.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Separate Baptists

The Separate Baptists are a group of Baptists originating in the 18th-century United States, primarily in the South, that grew out of the Great Awakening.

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Shubal Stearns

Shubal Stearns (sometimes spelled Shubael; 28 January 1706 – November 20, 1771) was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Stafford, Connecticut

Stafford is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States, settled in 1719. Tolland, Connecticut and Stafford, Connecticut are Greater Hartford.

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Storrs, Connecticut

Storrs is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Mansfield in eastern Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.

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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a means-tested program that provides cash payments to disabled children, disabled adults, and individuals aged 65 or older who are citizens or nationals of the United States.

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References

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1722 establishments in Connecticut

Populated places established in 1722

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