Town
Hall Address: |
Town Clerk
4 Market Street
P.O. Box 168
Collinsville, CT 06022
(860) 693-7847
Research hours - M,T,Th - 8:30 -4:30
W - 8:30 - 6:45 pm, Fri - 8:30 - Noon
Researchers must request volumes from clerk.
(860) 693-7870 |
History
Brief: |
First settled on Chestnut Hill in West Simsbury in 1737. The General Assembly constituted this the Parish of West Symsbury in May 1750. Canton incorporated in 1806, taking land from Simsbury and New Hartford. Town vital records begin 1838.
Barbour collection records cover 1806-53.
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| Year: | 1990 | | Population: | 8268 |
| | Year: | 2000 | | Population: | 8840 | | |
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| Name: | Calvary Cemetery | | Location: | Collinsville |
| | Name: | Canton Center Cemetery | | Location: | Canton Center |
| | Name: | Canton Street Cemetery | | Location: | Canton Street |
| | Name: | Collinsville Cemetery | | Location: | Collinsville |
| | Name: | Dyer Cemetery | | Location: | On Dyer farm, west side of Albany Tpke. |
| | Name: | New Catholic Cemetery (860) 693-8067 | | Location: | Collins Rd |
| | Name: | Southwest Canton Cemetery | | Location: | US 51 Collinsville |
| | Name: | St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery | | Location: | US 51 Collinsville |
| | Name: | Village Cemetery | | Location: | US 51 | | |
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| Name: | Canton Community Baptist (860) 693-8338 | | Location: | 125 Dowd Avenue, P.O.Box 369, Canton |
| | Name: | Canton Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (860) 693-0563 | | Location: | 18 Barbourtown Road, Canton Center | | Website: | www.watchtower.org |
| | Name: | Church of the Latter-Day Saints (860) 693-0788 | | Location: | 12 Dunham Road |
| | Name: | Collinsville Congregational Church (860) 693-6333 | | Location: | 7 South Street, Collinsville | | Website: | www.collinsvillecongragational.org |
| | Name: | Community United Methodist Church (860) 693-4589 | | Location: | 3 Case Street, Canton |
| | Name: | First Congregational Church of Canton Center (860) 693-4581 | | Location: | 184 Cherry Brook Road, P.O. Box 133 Canton Center |
| | Name: | St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (860) 693-8727 | | Location: | 7 Burlington Avenue Collinsville |
| | Name: | Trinity Episcopal Church (860) 693-8173 | | Location: | 55 River Road, Collinsville | | |
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| Name: | Bahre Corner |
| | Name: | Canton Center |
| | Name: | Canton Village |
| | Name: | Cherry Brook |
| | Name: | Collinsville |
| | Name: | Dowd's Corner |
| | Name: | East Hill |
| | Name: | North Canton |
| | Name: | Ratlum |
| | Name: | Secret Lake | | |
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| Name: | Canton Life (860) 953-0444 Monthly new magazine | | Type: | Contemporary | | Location: | 106 South Street, West Hartford, CT 06110 | | Website: | www.whitepublishing.com |
| | Name: | Tri-Town Post Weekly (860) 236-3571 | | Type: | Contemporary | | Location: | 99 Main Street, Bristol, CT 06010 | | Website: | www.townnews.com | | |
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| Name: | Canton High School (860) 693-7707 | | Type: | High School | | Location: | 76 Simonds Avenue Canton | | Website: | www.cantonschools.org |
| | Name: | Canton Intermediate School (860) 693-7717 | | Type: | Other | | Location: | 39 Dyer Avenue, Canton | | Website: | www.cantonschools.org |
| | Name: | Canton Middle School (860) 693-7712 | | Type: | Middle School | | Location: | 76 Simonds Avenue Canton | | Website: | www.cantonschools.org |
| | Name: | Cherry Brook Primary School (860) 693-7721 | | Type: | Grammar/Elementary | | Location: | 4 Barbourtown Road, Canton | | Website: | www.cantonschools.org | | |
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| Name: | Canton Connecticut | | Author: | Hon. William Edgar Simonds | | Date Published: | 1895 | | Publisher: | Connecticut Quarterly |
| | Name: | Gene Hist with Short Sketches and Family Records of Early Settlers of W Simsbury, Now Canton CT | | Author: | Abiel Brown | | Date Published: | 1856 | | Publisher: | Case, Tiffany & Company Hartford | | |
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| Name: | Contact the: | | Contact Data: |
Collinsville Historical Society
11 Front Street
Collinsville, CT 06022 | | |
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| Birth: | 1838 - Present (Earlier records can be found in Simsbury) | | Marriage: | 1838 - Present (Earlier records can be found in Simsbury) | | Death: | 1838 - Present (Earlier records can be found in Simsbury) | | |
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