Thomaston, Connecticut

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Thomaston, Connecticut is a small New England town in Litchfield County known for its historic clockmaking industry and traditional downtown.

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Label Occurrences
Thomaston, Connecticut canonical 6
Thomaston 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
town
areaCode 860
959
borders Harwinton, Connecticut NERFINISHED
Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
surface form: Litchfield, Connecticut

Plymouth, Connecticut NERFINISHED
Watertown, Connecticut NERFINISHED
climate humid continental climate
country United States of America
surface form: United States
county Litchfield County, Connecticut
FIPSPlaceCode 76440
GNISFeatureID 0213524
hasCountySeat Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
surface form: Litchfield (county seat of Litchfield County)
hasCulturalAttraction Railroad Museum of New England (nearby in Thomaston station)
hasElementarySchool Black Rock School
hasFeature traditional downtown commercial area
hasGovernmentType New England town government
hasHighSchool Thomaston Public Schools
surface form: Thomaston High School
hasHistoricCompany Seth Thomas
surface form: Seth Thomas Clock Company
hasHistoricDistrict Thomaston Main Street Historic District
hasHistoricIndustry clock manufacturing
hasLandmark Seth Thomas Clock Factory complex
Thomaston Opera House
hasMajorRoute Connecticut Route 8
U.S. Route 6 NERFINISHED
hasMiddleSchool Thomaston Public Schools
surface form: Thomaston Center School
hasPostalCode 06787
hasPublicTransportation Metro-North Railroad Waterbury Branch
surface form: Metro-North Railroad Waterbury Branch (nearby service)
hasSchoolDistrict Thomaston Public Schools
hasUTCOffset UTC−05:00
hasUTCOffsetDST UTC−04:00
incorporatedIn 1875
knownFor historic clockmaking industry
traditional New England downtown
locatedIn Connecticut
Litchfield County, Connecticut
New England
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
namedAfter Seth Thomas
partOf Naugatuck River Valley
previousName Plymouth Hollow
region Northeastern United States
state Connecticut
subdivisionType town of Connecticut
traversedByRiver Naugatuck River

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Instruction
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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Input
Subject: Thomaston, Connecticut
Description of subject: Thomaston, Connecticut is a small New England town in Litchfield County known for its historic clockmaking industry and traditional downtown.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Litchfield County, Connecticut contains Thomaston, Connecticut
New Haven County containsTown Thomaston, Connecticut
this entity surface form: Thomaston
Wolcott, New Haven County, Connecticut borders Thomaston, Connecticut
Central Connecticut hasTown Thomaston, Connecticut
Watertown, Connecticut borders Thomaston, Connecticut
Plymouth, Connecticut borderedBy Thomaston, Connecticut
Naugatuck River flowsThrough Thomaston, Connecticut