Just past the halfway point between Boston and Providence, Mansfield is an affluent town of 24,000 people in Bristol County. For a community of modest size, Mansfield has a lively downtown area, with restaurants and locally-owned stores tracing a long strip of North Main Street. For many people, the name “Mansfield” is a byword for …
This small town in eastern Connecticut has little villages, scenic roads winding into upland countryside and remnants of mills from the 18th and 19th centuries. The landscape is dotted with public natural spaces linked by paths like the Blue-Blazed Nipmuck Trail. I don’t think it’s a shock, but the colors in fall are nothing short …
A market town with industry in its veins, Mansfield was a big source of coal up to the end of the 20th century. In the space of a generation, mining has all but disappeared, but telltale headstocks still stand in places like Clipstone and Pleasley where there’s an absorbing museum. There’s Tudor luxury too, at …