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There are dozen areas within the usa named Plainfield, yet Plainfield, Connecticut, used to be the 1st. whilst it was once integrated in 1699, Colonial governor Fitz-John Winthrop named town for its wealthy, fertile fields alongside the Quinebaug River. throughout the 1700s, the city was once reworked from local American kingdom to a farming group populated by means of English settlers. within the 1800s, fabric generators have been equipped alongside the Moosup and Quinebaug Rivers, and Plainfield turned an business city attracting staff from in all places New England, Canada, and Europe. this day the fabric is long gone, and the surviving turbines were switched over to different makes use of. situated within the northeastern a part of the nation, Plainfield is within the center of the breathtaking Quinebaug-Shetucket nationwide historical past Corridor.

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