Farmington, Connecticut. City and Business guide.

Welcome to Farmington, Connecticut.

Farmington is a town located in Hartford County in central Connecticut. The population was 23,641 at the 2000 census. It is home to Carrier Corporation, Otis Elevator Company, and Carvel. An affluent suburb of Hartford, Farmington was listed as one of the "preppiest" places in the United States in the 1980s best-seller The Official Preppy Handbook.

Theodate Pope Riddle House at Hill-Stead Museum. Photo by rbglasson, September 2006
The Farmington Canal, a minor canal connecting New Haven with Northampton, Massachusetts, passed through the Farmington on the eastern bank of the river and was operated intermittently between 1828 and 1848. While never a commercial success, the canal's right of way and towpath was eventually used for a railroad, portions of which were used even up to the 1990s. Much of the towpath and the railroad bed has now been converted to a cycling and running trail running from New Haven to Northamption, Massachusetts.

Just above the village, off Mountain Road, lies the Hill-Stead museum. The estate, completed in 1901 and designed by Theodate Pope Riddle, one of the first woman American architects, and is known for its colonial revival architecture. Now a museum, its 19 rooms hold a nationally-recognized collection of Impressionist paintings by such masters as Manet, Monet, Whistler, Degas and Cassatt. It is also the sight of the annual Sunken Garden Poetry Festival and is a National Historic Landmark.

The town is also home to the University of Connecticut Health Center, where over 4,000 people work. The Health Center also houses John Dempsey Hospital. The hospital provides the only full-service emergency department in the Farmington Valley and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), one of only two in Connecticut.

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