Cheshire

Cheshire, formerly known as New Cheshire Parish, is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

Cheshire is a town in Connecticut with a population of 29,274. Cheshire is in New Haven County and is one of the best places to live in Connecticut. Living in Cheshire offers residents a suburban feel and most residents own their homes. In Cheshire there are a lot of restaurants and parks. Many young professionals live in Cheshire and residents tend to be liberal.

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The Farmington Canal, also known as the New Haven and Northampton Canal, was a major private canal built in the early 19th century to provide water transportation from New Haven into the interior of Connecticut, Massachusetts and beyond. Its Massachusetts segment was known as the Hampshire and Hampden Canal.

Below is a great photograph of Lock 12 in the Old Farmington Canal in Cheshire.

The rise of the industrial age in the early 19th century helped create a national economy in the new American republic, and transportation improvements were essential to its health. While the construction of turnpike toll roads in most states—including Connecticut—connected inland market towns with port communities, it proved impractical to ship heavy, bulky goods overland on dirt turnpikes. To transport such goods, many states built artificial inland waterways called canals.

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