List of Connecticut county name etymologies
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This is a list of Connecticut county name etymologies With the exception of Middlesex County, each of these counties is named its county seat. In turn, all eight county seats were named after communities in England. These are the etymologies of those towns:
- Fairfield County: named for the hundreds of acres of salt marsh that bordered the coast.
- Hartford County: named after Hertfordshire.
- Litchfield County: named after Lichfield.
- Middlesex County: named after Middlesex.
- New Haven County: named after New Haven Harbor.
- New London County: named after London.
- Tolland County: named after Tolland, Somerset.
- Windham County: named after Windham in Sussex.
