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In 1802, Solomon Cowles presented a new brick house, on Main Street in Farmington, to his son, George Cowles, as a wedding gift. The George Cowles House was where the first meeting to plan the Farmington Canal was held in 1822. The house was purchased by Theodate Pope in 1907.

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The General George Cowles House (1802)

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