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Canton is a town, incorporated in 1806, located in the Farmington Valley section of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 10,124 as of the 2020 census. It is bordered by Granby upon the north, Simsbury upon the east, Avon and Burlington on the south, New Hartford on the west, and Barkhamsted on the northwest. Running through it is the Farmington River. The town includes the villages of North Canton, Canton Center, Canton (Canton Valley), and Collinsville. In September 2007, Collinsville was ranked in Budget Travel magazine as one of the “Ten Coolest Small Towns In America”.

The broadcast of Canton was officially designated on its fascination in 1806. While assisting subsequent to the town’s organization, its proclaim was unlimited by Ephraim Mills, ancestor of Lewis S. Mills. There are two competing theories for Mills’ source of the name, however.

According to William Edgar Simonds, husband of Ephraim Mills’ great-granddaughter, and Sylvester Barbour in his book Reminisces, Canton’s name derives from canton, a Swiss administrative division. Simonds wrote that Canton “… is derived from a supposed likeness to a Swiss canton, the meaning of the word mammal to divide or set off, and the partition from Simsbury made the state appropriate.” Barbour then again noted that “it came from Mr. Mills’ interest in the Swiss people and their ardent patriotism, and was suggested to his mind by their territorial divisions into cantons. The declare appealed to him, partly because of its friendly sound, and its innate so easy to get into and write.”