Car Rental Manchester, Connecticut, United States of America.

Car Rental Manchester

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Manchester is a town in Hartford County in the state of Connecticut. It is located is in the central north part of the state, north of Glastonbury and east of Hartford.

Manchester began as a farming community in the 1670s and named their community after the English city of Manchester. Numerous brooks and rivers made the area an ideal location for lumber, paper, and textile industries.

Manchester was initially incorporated as a part of East Hartford but later as a separate town in 1823. It then grew into an industrial town with the world’s largest silk mill being was established in 1838 by the Cheney family. Manchester became the center of the silk industry in America from the late 19th through the mid-20th Century. The "Cheney Family" historic district showcases mills refurbished as apartments and includes nearby museums. The mills, houses of the owners, and homes of the workers are now included in the Cheney Brothers Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.

Hazel Lutz, art teacher and an extensive traveller collected a variety of artefacts and trinkets that she believed would be of interest to children over several years. Her collection grew from a storage cupboard to the Lutz Children's Museum which was founded n 1953 and named in her honour. Carefully planned activities promote a love of learning and thirst for knowledge and focus on self-discovery and exploration. Real museum artefacts or live animals are integrated into almost every program giving children the opportunity to experience the world first hand.

Originally opened in March 1990 as "The Pavilions at Buckland Hills", this enclosed mall underwent a multi-million dollar renovation and in October 2003 reopened as "The Shoppes at Buckland Hills". The main building has an area of 1,180,000 square feet on two floors, plus the cluster of surrounding retail stores, hotels, and restaurants on the hill, totalling nearly 6,000,000 square feet. There are approximately 145 shops and eateries in the mall, as well as five anchor stores, including: Macy's, J.C. Penney, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sears, Barnes & Noble and Newbury Comics.

Manchester is home to the Manchester Memorial Hospital, the Manchester Community College, Manchester High School, Howell Cheney Technical High School, and East Catholic High School. The town has more than 1,000 acres of park land and several on and off-road bicycle routes. Other attractions in and around Manchester include Old Manchester Museum, Cheney Homestead, Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society, Laurel Lake, Northview Ski Slope and Charter Oak Park.

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