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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOUTHINGTON  , a township of

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Hartford
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county,
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Connecticut, U.S.A., about 15 m . S.W. of the
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city of Hartford.' Within the township is the
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borough of Southington, served by the New
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York, New Haven & Hartford railroad . Pop. of the township (1910), 6516, which included that of the borough, 3714 . The
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area of the township is 35 sq. m . The
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principal
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industry is the manufacture of hardware goods . Between 1809 and 1874 as many as 236
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patents were granted to residents . Southington was originally a
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part of the township of Farmington . It was settled about 1697; in 1724 it became an
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independent parisi: under the name of Panthorn . The township was incorporated in 1779, the borough in 1889 . See H . R . Timlow's Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington (Hartford, 1875) .

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