Talk:Tariffville, Connecticut

merge of historic district
The Tariffville Historic District article has had no local development in over 6 months. Both it and the village article are mostly boiler-plate content. A better reader experience can be had by combining them. A reading of the NRHP nomination form also confirms that the historical significance of the district is identical to the history of the village. --Polaron | Talk 20:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * This is one of many article pairs considered in long, mediated discussions; this is one where agreement was to allow/encourage separate development.  I disagree that wikipedia is served by merging;  here as elsewhere there's benefit to allowing the HD topic develop a more detailed treatment and to encourage numerous photos of its architecture, etc., beyond what is suitable in a town/hamlet/CDP article.  A reading of the NRHP nomination document does show it includes a lot of history of the village as background;  that is informative but different than the topic of the historic district itself, which is only what you can see today and at NRHP listing date.  It's the difference between ancient history in a book vs. a set of artifacts speaking of relatively recent history in a museum.  Happily, some development to the articles has happened recently, too. --doncram (talk) 02:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Spoonville dam breach
An editor had included a sentence fragment "Home to the great flood that destroyed the dam." I wanted to improve it, so I did a little homework (not enough) and concluded the reference was to the flood of 1955 which breached the Spoonville dam. I think that is what the person meant, but as has been point out, the Spoonville dam, while just downstream from the Tariffville Gorge, is actually in East Granby, not in Tariffville.

I'd like to include the information somewhere, but pending exactly where it belongs and how it should be presented, I've removed it from the article and copied it here:

The Spoonville dam, built in the 19th century, was breached in the flood of 1955, and still remains as a partial dam in 2010, although there are discussions to remove the remaining portion of the dam. -- SPhilbrick  T  21:01, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There's always the Farmington River, if there are no other appropriate places to add it to. --Polaron | Talk 22:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Perfect suggestion, as there are already pics of the broken dam in the article. Thanks. -- SPhilbrick  T  10:46, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Concert to LDR
I converted the refs to LDR style, any questions, just ask.-- SPhilbrick  T  14:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)