Avon Congregational Church

Avon ( AY-vahn) is a town in the Farmington Valley region of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 18,932.

Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement ("TMSC") is a non profit corporation in Avon, Connecticut. It is dedicated to the improvement of science education and does so by working directly with students, teachers, and the general public. Located at Avon CT, Talcott Mountain Science Center tries to improve lives of all people through an academy and science center programs.

Avon Old Farms School is a boarding school for boys located in Avon, Connecticut, United States. Theodate Pope Riddle, one of America's first female architects, founded the school in 1927.

Weatogue is a village and census-designated place in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. The population was 2,776 at the 2010 census.

Talcott Mountain State Park is a 574-acre (232 ha) public recreation area located on Talcott Mountain in the towns of Avon, Bloomfield, and Simsbury, Connecticut. The state park features the Heublein Tower, a 165-foot-high (50 m) mountaintop lookout. Access to the tower and its associated museum is via a 1.25-mile-long (2 km) trail that takes 30 to 40 minutes to walk. The park offers picnicking, views of the surrounding area, and hiking along the Metacomet Trail.

Horse Guard State Park is a public recreation area covering 105 acres (42 ha) in the town of Avon, Connecticut. The state park is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The 165-foot-tall (50 m) Heublein Tower is located in Talcott Mountain State Park in Simsbury, Connecticut, United States and provides panoramic views of the Hartford skyline, the Farmington River Valley, and surrounding areas that are particularly spectacular in the fall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The correct pronunciation of the tower is debated. The Heublein family came from Germany, whence the pronunciation HOY-blyne, but after immigrating to the United States, over the years it was pronounced HY-blyne. After Heublein Inc. was bought by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1982, advertising was run on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, who pronounced it HEW-blyne.

WNWW (1290 AM "Faith 1290") is a radio station licensed to West Hartford, Connecticut, and serves the Greater Hartford area. The station is owned by the University of Northwestern – St. Paul. WNWW airs a religious radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. WNWW is a class D AM station operating with 490 watts during the day and eleven watts at night per FCC rules. Programming is supplied by the Faith Radio service of the University of Northwestern - St. Paul based in Roseville, Minnesota. Hosts include Rick Warren, Jim Daly, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, and Charles Stanley.

WCCC (106.9 FM) – branded K-Love – is a non-commercial contemporary Christian radio station licensed to serve Hartford, Connecticut. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation, WCCC does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the K-Love network affiliate for Greater Hartford, the Pioneer Valley and portions of the Naugatuck Valley. The station's transmitter is located in West Hartford; in addition to a standard analog transmission, WCCC is also available online.

The Ethel Walker School, also commonly referred to as "Walker's", is a private, college preparatory, boarding and day school for girls in grades 6 through 12 plus postgraduate located in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Avon High School is a public high school in Avon, Connecticut, United States, serving grades 9–12. The principal since the 2022-2023 school year is Dr. Stephanie Lockhart.

WTIC (1080 kHz; "WTIC NewsTalk 1080") is a commercial AM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut. It airs a news–talk format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. The station's studios and offices are on Executive Drive in Farmington.WTIC is a Class A clear-channel station with a transmitter power output of 50,000 watts, the maximum permitted for U.S. AM stations. Its transmitter site is a two-tower facility off Deercliff Road in Avon, Connecticut. WTIC has a single tower, non-directional signal in the daytime, providing at least secondary coverage to almost all of Connecticut, as well as large portions of southern Massachusetts and the outer suburbs of New York City. At night, when AM band signals travel much farther, WTIC uses both towers in order to create a directional pattern, primarily to protect KRLD in Dallas, Texas, the other Class A station on 1080 AM. Even with this restriction, WTIC can be heard at night over much of the eastern half of North America. WTIC is the primary entry point (PEP) for the Emergency Alert System (EAS) in Connecticut.