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            Avon, taking its name from the Avon River in England, is a Farmington River Valley town which was incorporated in 1830 from the “Mother Town” of Farmington. It remained a rural community, its population increasing from 1,025 to only 3,171 by 1950, a rather slow growth for one hundred and twenty years. But the 2006 population is estimated to be 17,041.  A lot happened in the last fifty years.  The character of Avon is that for a small town, it is a “non bedroom community,” which has attracted enough forward thinking and hi-tech business so that people can live and work in the same town.  It maintains and continues to develop a high level of business development.  At the same time it is a New England town with all of the character that those words suggest. 

            A wonderful example of this is Old Avon Village, which grew from four historic homes converted to retail shops in 1960 (Just around the time that the town was becoming “modern,”) to twenty buildings, some dating to the 1830's, and all reflecting the feel and relaxation of bygone times.  So from the nine hundred fifty foot peak of Talcott Mountain on the West Hartford border to the rolling valleys of the central and western parts of town, with four very active industrial and business parks in between, one can both work and live comfortably in a place where the Farmington River flows like that of the town’s namesake in far off England.