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Tolland is a suburban town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 14,563 at the 2020 census.

Tolland was named in May, 1715, and incorporated in May, 1722 from Windsor. The town was over 20 miles away from Tolland and was incorporated to ensue the population out in the hill areas. According to some, the town derives its proclaim from monster a toll station upon the dated road amongst Boston and New York. Alternatively, its pronounce could have been taken after Tolland in Somerset, England. Today Interstate 84, the main highway connecting New York City, Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, bisects Tolland, but the town retains a delightful village feel. Tolland Green is the informal center of the community, and a national historic district. The Green’s features add together an old-fashioned penny candy and antiques increase known to locals as the ‘Red and White’; the town’s native 19th-century town hall, now an arts center; the Old Tolland County Jail and Museum; the Tolland County Courthouse and former public library; the ‘Tolland Inn’ bed and breakfast; and the Hicks-Stearns Family Museum, a restored Victorian house. The architectural styles upon display, including the white steeples of several churches, are reminiscent of a picture-postcard New England scene. The town is also house to the supposedly haunted Daniel Benton Homestead, built in 1720 and the oldest home in Tolland.

Many of the town’s adults doing in Hartford, located very nearly 30 minutes away, often at one of the city’s many insurance companies, or for the University of Connecticut in Storrs, to the south. A family-oriented town, the landscape of Tolland is primarily composed of houses upon plots of land a propos two acres. Undeveloped, forested house covers the area between the town’s many residential developments. Containing two allow in forests and several municipal parks, the town retains a relatively rural character.