Avon, Connecticut: The Land att Nod

The town of Avon began as a corner of Farmington that early settlers called Northington, and before that the land att Nod, the English adaptation of a Tunxis place name. Europeans first settled the area in sixteen forty-five as part of the Tunxis Plantation grant, one of the largest land grants in colonial Connecticut. By seventeen fifty, thirty-one families had settled there and petitioned to form their own parish.

Connecticut recognized it as the town of Avon in eighteen thirty, naming it for the county in England. The Farmington Canal, opened in eighteen twenty-eight, brought new commercial life to the village where it intersected the Talcott Mountain Turnpike. The canal building that housed the Climax Fuse Company from nineteen oh-seven until nineteen sixty-eight still stands as Avon's Town Hall.