Editing Tariffville, Connecticut (section)

==History==
In 1825 (or 1827),<ref name="Project"/> the Tariff Manufacturing Company built a [[carpet]] mill along the Farmington River, giving its name to the area.<ref name="Clark2006"/><ref name="Name"/> The company name came from the [[Tariff of 1824|Tariff Act of 1824]] which included protective [[tariff]]s for a number of products, including wool and cotton [[textile]]s. The area did not have sufficient housing for the workers, so the company built housing, some of which survives today.<ref name="nrhpinv3"/> The carpet business survived for a few decades, but by 1867, the primary industry in the area was sorting and packing of [[tobacco]]. The tobacco business would continue as the chief industry through the 1930s.<ref name="Project"/> The town was the site of a major rail accident, the [[1878 Tariffville train crash|Tariffville train crash]], in 1878.<ref name="tariffville-history">{{cite web|last1=Nagy|first1=John|title=Tariffville Rail Road History|url=http://www.tariffvillevillage.com/history/TVA_RR_Hist_01.html|website=Tariffville Village Association|access-date=20 July 2017}}</ref>

The first [[steel]] manufacturing plant in the country was established in Tariffville at a site on the Farmington River in 1727.<ref name="Canton 1906"/>