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Waterford is a town in New London County, Connecticut. It is named after Waterford, Ireland. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 19,571 at the 2020 census. [2] . The town center is listed as a census-designated place (CDP) and had a population of 3,074 at the 2020 census. [3] Geography.
- Waterford (CDP), Connecticut - Wikipedia
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- Quaker Hill Historic District (Waterford, Connecticut)
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- Waterford (CDP), Connecticut - Wikipedia
Harkness Memorial State Park is a historic preservation area with botanical garden and recreational features located on Long Island Sound in the town of Waterford, Connecticut. The state park's 304 acres (123 ha) center around Eolia, a 42-room Renaissance Revival mansion with formal gardens and greenhouses.
- 304 acres (123 ha)
- Lord & Hewlett; et al.
- 1906-1907
History of Waterford, Connecticut . Formerly known as the West Farms of New London, the Town of Waterford was incorporated on October 8, 1801, to become the 109th town in the State of Connecticut.English colonists first harvested crops on Fog Plain and Mamacoke in 1645, gradually displacing the native Nehantic and Pequot tribes.
Waterford, town (township), New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound just west of the city of New London. The area, settled about 1653, was separated from New London and incorporated as a town in 1801. Drained by the Thames and Niantic rivers, it has a name.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The New London County town of Waterford is located on Long Island Sound and is bound on its west by the Niantic River and the Thames River on its east. The community incorporated from New London in 1801, and its economy consisted of fishing, trade, agriculture, and, as early as 1737, granite quarrying at Millstone.
