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[deleted] t1_j9mueb7 wrote

Reply to comment by AConnecticutMan in That billboard by ILovePublicLibraries

Hartford, Stamford, wish we had more fords.

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Stratford, Walingford.

Idk which other ones

Daburyford. Bridgeford, new haveford, Waterford.

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AConnecticutMan t1_j9n9d1v wrote

Can't forget the classics, Milford and New Milford, and I think there's a Waterford? Basically start with a cardinal direction or "New" and then choose either bridge or water and end in a -ford, -town or -ton and you have a CT town name

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french-russian-idiot t1_j9omvik wrote

"17 town names end in the suffix “ford.” They are Ashford, Branford, Eastford, East Hartford, Guilford, Hartford, Milford, New Hartford, New Milford, North Branford, Oxford, Stafford, Stamford, Stratford, Wallingford, Waterford, and West Hartford" (Ted Jackson for Manchester History)

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