Avon, Connecticut Avon, Connecticut Official seal of Avon, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut Avon is a town in the Farmington Valley region of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Avon is a suburb of Hartford.
Avon Old Farms School, a prestigious boarding school, is positioned there.
In 2005, Avon was titled the third-safest town in America by Money Magazine.
Avon is home to Avon High School as well as two elementary schools, Pine Grove Elementary and Roaring Brook Elementary, an intermediate (grades 5 6) school Thompson Brook, and a middle school (grades 7 8) Avon Middle School. 2.1 Avon Mountain traffic accidents 4.1 Properties owned by the Avon Historical Society According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 23.5 square miles (61 km2), of which 23.1 square miles (60 km2) is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) is water.
The East side of Avon is bordered by Talcott Mountain, part of the Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap modern ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to near the Vermont border.
Avon was settled in 1645 and was originally a part of Farmington.
The Farmington Canal's opening in 1828 brought new company to the village, which sat where the canal intersected the Talcott Mountain Turnpike linking Hartford to Albany, New York.
Hopes of industrialized and commercial expansion spurred Avon to incorporate.
In 1830, the Connecticut General Assembly incorporated Northington as the town of Avon, after County Avon in England.
In the 1960s Avon rejected the proposal for Interstate 291 coming through the southern edge of the town and successfully denied the expressway going through the town.
Avon Mountain traffic accidents The section of Talcott Mountain, known as Avon Mountain, between Avon and West Hartford, is known for the climb of U.S.
Route 44, and the most direct path to Hartford from much of the Farmington Valley and Litchfield County.
One of the worst traffic accidents in Connecticut history occurred at the intersection of Route 44 and Route 10 at the foot of Avon Mountain.
The accidents prompted the State of Connecticut to modify Route 44 through the addition of a runaway truck ramp just above the Avon Old Farms Inn and the straightening and widening of the road on the slope of the mountain.
The Avon Free Public Library can be traced back to 1791 when Rev.
Avon Congregational Church assembled in 1819 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Properties owned by the Avon Historical Society As of 2010, Avon had a populace of 18,098.
There were 6,192 homeholds, out of which 34.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 65.8% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 27.6% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 3.3% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 29.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Glen Wesley former NHL player, lived in Avon amid his tenure with the Hartford Whalers.
Governor Rell: Governor Rell Pledges to Build On Road Safety Progress; First Anniversary of Avon Mountain Crash Avon Historical Society.
Avon Historical Society.
Avon Historical Society.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
2010 populace by race and Hispanic or Latino by place chart for Connecticut from the US Census.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Avon (Connecticut).
Avon Official Municipal Web Site Avon Public Schools Website Avon Free Public Library Website Municipalities and communities of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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