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  • ►  2012 (16)
    • ►  May (1)
      • How Did Connecticut Form? A Geological History
    • ►  April (8)
      • Gov. William Buckingham, Faded From History, Playe...
      • Made in Bridgeport: When America’s best built car ...
      • Bethel
      • Bantam
      • Avon
      • One woman's passion: the $33m Tom Thumb islands
      • Midgetville
      • Swamp Yankee
    • ►  March (2)
      • Web site follows Connecticut's Freedom Trail
      • Ireland's Potato Famine helped to shape Connecticu...
    • ►  February (1)
      • A park in Derby Ct.
    • ►  January (4)
      • American Indian
      • Michiko Kakutani
      • Curious Facts About Connecticut's Governmental His...
      • Mildred Spitz Savage
  • ►  2011 (34)
    • ►  June (6)
      • Middlebury Road
      • Litchfield County Hospital, Winstead
      • New Haven 1970
      • Southington 1890
      • The Norton House Guilford
      • Historical Society Talk Highlights Connecticut's O...
    • ►  April (2)
      • Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
      • A Piece of ‘Gone With the Wind’ Isn’t Gone After A...
    • ►  March (3)
      • Support a GREAT CAUSE...buy a ticket
      • Eagle Spotlights Inventive Connecticut Town
      • Experiments Were Performed On Connecticut Mental P...
    • ►  February (2)
      • Kitty Genovese
      • Recommended Book about Connecticut
    • ►  January (21)
      • Connecticut College
      • Connecticut Celebrities
      • Connecticut writers of note
      • From 1703 to 1875, Connecticut had two capitals; s...
      • Gov. Jonathan Trumbull - the only Colonial governo...
      • Connecticut Constitution
      • Connecticut Charter
      • THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF 1638-1639
      • Connecticut Firsts
      • Sate Holidays
      • Shirley Grey, From IMDB
      • Town Plot
      • Yalesville
      • Haunted Connecticut
      • Haunted Connecticut
      • Haunted Connecticut
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      • Haunted Connecticut
      • John Warner Barber
      • An 1835 engraving by John Barber showing the North...
  • ▼  2010 (137)
    • ▼  December (55)
      • The Mattabesec Indians
      • One Woman Buys Ten Private Islands /Conn. Widow Bu...
      • Women in a mill in Ansonia
      • Connecticut Leads All States, Most Nations In Deve...
      • The waterwheel, Hamilton Park, Waterbury
      • Suffield
      • New London
      • Old Hartford
      • Seymour (?)
      • Middletown
      • Old Simsbury
      • Winstead
      • Old Lyme
      • Connecticut to California
      • Old New Haven
      • Old Ansonia
      • Farrel's foundry in Ansonia-click photo for comple...
      • John P. D'Agostino Sr , artist
      • John D'Agostino, poker player
      • Jeff Tuohy - Knock On Wood
      • Eugene O'Neill of new London
      • Bridgeport, Connecticut: Then & Now
      • The Buckley's are an old Connecticut family . Char...
      • Mr. Kennedy comes to CT Part 1
      • For some strange reason, all four films have the s...
      • Mr. Kennedy comes to CT Part 3
      • Mr. Kennedy comes to CT Part 4
      • Give it a minute, its interesting once it starts: ...
      • Bloomfield Conn. 1930
      • 1930 yearbook of the Gunnery School
      • Bumper cars, Savan Rock?
      • The Old Leatherman
      • Old Saybrooke
      • The Old State House
      • Swordplay, 10th Connecticut Infantry
      • Hendrix at Bushnell 1968
      • The Oakdale
      • The Buckley's of Sharon
      • election in Waterbury October 1950
      • Inauguration, 1951
      • Connecticut State Republican convention 1940
      • Football fans 1962, near Startford
      • Factory dome outside of Hartford
      • New Haven Communters wait, the flood of 1955 knock...
      • Waterbury after the 1955 flood
      • Torrington after the 1955 flood
      • Gov. Abe Ribicoff reviews the damage from the flod...
      • Norfolk 1910
      • Higgins Coal & Mason's Supplies -Hamden 1890
      • WM Higgins, New London
      • Free Will Baptist Church, Valley Road, East Killin...
      • May 21, 1901, Connecticut sets the speed limit at ...
      • new Haven Register Paperboys...whatever happened t...
      • South Coventry 1900
      • 3rd Connecticut Infantry
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    • ►  August (25)
  • ►  2009 (57)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (9)
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Name of State: Connecticut

Statehood: January 9, 1788 (5th state)

Nickname/Official Designation: "The Constitution State" was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1959

Name Origin/Indian: Quinnehtukqut -- Mohegan for "Long River Place" or "Beside the Long Tidal River"

Capitol: Hartford, the sole Capital City since 1875

State Motto: Qui Transtulit Sustinet -- "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains"

Population: The population of Connecticut was 3,405,565 according to the 2000 U.S. Official Census. The most recent population estimate from the Connecticut Department of Public Health is 3,409,549 as of July 1, 2000.

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Cities with largest population (2000):
1. Bridgeport 139,529
2. New Haven 123,626
3. Hartford 121,578
4. Stamford 117,083
5. Waterbury 107,271
Area: 5,018 square miles
Counties: 8
Towns: 169
Cities: 21
Boroughs: 9
Famous For: Inventors (Charles Goodyear, Elias Howe, Eli Whitney, Eli Terry), Inventions, Watchmaking, Typewriters, Insurance, Submarines
Birth Rate: (2001--per 1,000 pop.) 12.5
Death Rate: (2001--per 1,000 pop.) 8.7
Length of Boundary: 371 miles
Length of Shoreline: 253 miles
Highest Altitude: Slope of Mt. Frissell in Salisbury 2,380 ft. above sea level
Total mileage of Rivers and Streams: Approx. 12,148
Total number of Lakes and Ponds: Approx. 19,591
State Parks: 93 on 33,449 acres
State Forests: 30 on 167,504 acres
State Monuments: 10 on 14 acres
Miles on State Highway System (as of Dec. 31, 2001): 4,122.27
State Maintained Access Roads and Ramps: 389.89
State Maintained Routes: 3,732.38
Miles of Divided Lane Highways in System: 730.42
The State Seal was provided for in the Constitution, 1818.
The State Flag was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1897.
The State Flower, the Mountain Laurel, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1907.
The State Bird, the Robin, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1943.
The State Tree, the White Oak, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1947.
The State Animal, the Sperm Whale, Physeter Catodon, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1975.
The State Insect, the Praying Mantis, Mantis Religiosa, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1977.
The State Mineral, the Garnet, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1977.

The State Song, "Yankee Doodle," was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1978.
The State Ship, USS Nautilus, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1983.
The State Hero, Nathan Hale, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1985.
The State Shellfish, the Eastern Oyster, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1989.
The State Composer, Charles Edward Ives was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1991.
The State Fossil, Eubrontes Giganteus, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1991.
The State Heroine, Prudence Crandall, was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1995.
The State Tartan was adopted by Act of the Legislature, 1995











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