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- The county was named after Lichfield, in England. [ 2 ]
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Litchfield County is a county in northwestern Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 185,186. [ 1 ] The county was named after Lichfield, in England. [ 2 ] Litchfield County has the lowest population density of any county in Connecticut and is the state's largest county by area.
Kent, settled in 1738 and incorporated in 1739, was named for the English county of Kent. It contains 49.5 square miles. Litchfield is derived from the English word “Lichfield” meaning a field of corpses, a place for burning heretics.
Litchfield county was created in 1751 and named for Litchfield, Eng. The town of Litchfield is the birthplace of frontiersman Ethan Allen, minister Henry Ward Beecher, and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is also where educator Tapping Reeve founded the Litchfield Law School (1784), the first of its kind in the United States. In the 19th ...
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Litchfield, town (township), Litchfield county, northwestern Connecticut, U.S. It includes the boroughs of Litchfield and Bantam. The lands that became Litchfield were purchased from the Tunxis Indians in 1715–16. The town, named for Lichfield, England, and incorporated in 1719, was settled in.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Litchfield County is a county located in northwestern Connecticut of the New York metropolitan area. Based on the 2010 census, the population was 189,927. Litchfield County was created on October 14, 1751 and was formed from Fairfield County and Hartford County.
This exceptionally handsome town, founded in 1715 in Connecticut’s northwest hills, is considered one of the most historic locations in the state. It is hard to imagine a place in New England with a richer story to tell than Litchfield.
This Litchfield County town is in the northwest portion of the state. Incorporated in 1719, Litchfield’s founders came from Hartford and Windsor. They cleared land for pastures and farming and established mills, blacksmith shops, and other small industries.
