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Farmington’s history begins in the meadows by the Farmington River — fertile land that the Native Americans called Tunxis Sepus (“at the bend of the little river”). The Tunxis Indians, ...
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The first homes of the settlers in Farmington were rough-hewn log huts, but as the town became more established the huts gave way to wooden frame houses. A rare surviving example of this type of Colonial house, with post-and-beam construction and a large central chimney, is the Stanley Whitman House on High Street, built around 1720.
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The Farmington Historical Society
P.O. Box 1645
Farmington, CT 06034
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