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Originally Posted by bear
My mom hailed from Connecticut. She was born in a village called Tariffville. A very old Gazeteer (1966) associated it with a place called Simsbury on the Farmington River 10 miles NW of Hartford. Has Hartford expanded sufficiently in the last 40 years to have swallowed up both of these locales?
Bear
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Not at all, Simsbury is a somewhat swanky suburb sufficiently far from Hartford that I doubt it will be encompassed by it any time soon.
I am quite sketchy on the details, but a number of municipalities that had no functioning government and had been defacto wards of larger entities for a while were swept from the state's official records in the eighties.
The only reason that I have a vague half-assed memory of that is because I am from Gilead, CT which no longer exists. After 50 plus years of being a ward of Hebron, the arrangement was made official in the late 70s or early 80's.
Our old Gilead town hall has been a personal residence since the sixties. When it happened, my grandfather refused to write 'Hebron' as his address. The Hebron Post Master would always hand-cross out Gilead from his mail and write "Hebron". As the years passed, it became "Hebron!!" with very deep indentations from the pen he was using.