Canton
Canton is a rural town, incorporated in 1806, in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 8,840 at the 2000 census. It is bordered by Granby on the north, Simsbury on the east, Avon and Burlington on the south, New Hartford on the west, and Barkhamsted on the northwest. Running through it is the Farmington River. The town includes the villages of North Canton, Canton Center, Canton, and Collinsville.
Canton is home to the 115-acre Roaring Brook Nature Center, which has six miles of self-guided trails and an interpretive building with a replica of an eastern woodland Indian longhouse. Classes, concerts and a gift shop are also at the nature center. The Mills Pond Recreation Area, a public park, has an Olympic size pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, two basketball courts, a skate park, a bocce ball pit, a volleyball sand court, a picnic shelter, playscape, soccer field, softball diamond, and passive recreation walking area.
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The Canton Historical Museum, in Collinsville, is located in a building of the former Collins Axe Company, one of the first ax companies in the world. It displays a 19th-century general store, a post office, a printing press and blacksmith and barber shops. Vehicles, tools and farm implements are also exhibited, as well as a working railroad diorama, Victorian fashions, toys and dolls.
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Caton Real Estate Update: Suburban neighborhood with 4,131 households, house depreciates 5% in the last 12 months, there are 118 homes for sale, including 2 foreclosures. Some apartmetns in Canton area inclue Brookside Apartments, Clemens Place Apartments, Westgate Apartments, and the Village at Wethersfield.
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