Of all the Connecticans who have left their mark in distant places, perhaps none made a more lasting—or more controversial—impression than this explorer.
ReadThe Charter of 1662 described Connecticut boundaries that extended all the way to the the Pacific Ocean!
ReadFrom tools, dishes, and clothing to muskrat bones, household trash from 1700s reveals how Yankees of the era lived.
ReadOn November 18, 1820, Nathaniel Brown Palmer of Stonington, Connecticut, discovered the mainland of Antarctica, one of the seven continents.
ReadSome 200 million years ago, carnivorous dinosaurs roamed Rocky Hill leaving the three-toed tracks that would become our state fossil.
ReadWhile maps serve a utilitarian function at the time of their production, they become snapshots in time of the memories of those who designed them.
ReadIn 1744 Thomas Clap, Rector and Yale College president for 26 years (1740-1766), constructed the first orrery, or planetarium, in the American colonies.
ReadIn 1753, Connecticut settlers formed the Susquehanna Company for the purposes of developing the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.
ReadAfter some 350 years, the matter of where exactly some of the state’s boundaries lie continues to be debated.
ReadIn the 1920s, most pilots navigated using road maps and by following highways, rivers, and other landmarks that they could see from the air.
ReadIn the middle of the 17th century, Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett played an integral part in purchasing the land that became Greenwich, Connecticut.
ReadEvidence of early Native land use is etched into the landscape and preserved in oral tradition as well as the historical and archaeological records.
ReadCredited with discovering the moons orbiting the planet Mars, Asaph Hall became an international science celebrity in the 19th century.
ReadHartford place names, such as Dutch Point, Huyshope Avenue, and Adriaen’s Landing, are reminders of a time when Connecticut was part of New Netherlands.
ReadSites along the Connecticut Freedom Trail mark key events in the quest to achieve freedom and social equality for African Americans in the state.
ReadA powerful and popular preacher, Thomas Hooker led a group of Puritans out of Massachusetts in 1636 to settle new lands that eventually became the city of Hartford.
ReadJohn Henry Von der Wall, a life-long resident of Bolton, took part in Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s famed expeditions to the South Polar regions.
ReadFrom Connecticut, Lorenzo Carter became the first permanent settler of the community that became Cleveland, Ohio.
ReadOn August 23, 1966, hundreds of dinosaur tracks were uncovered in Rocky Hill by a bulldozer operator.
ReadPublished in Hartford in 1783, this book by a Groton-born traveler captured a young nation’s imagination with its tales of discovery.
ReadIn early June 1636, Puritan religious leader Reverend Thomas Hooker left the Boston area with one hundred men, women, and children and set out for the Connecticut valley.
ReadA timeline displaying the major events leading to Connecticut statehood, including its settlement by the Dutch, the origins of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor, the founding of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies, and Connecticut’s acquisition of a formal charter from England.
ReadIn 1635, the governor of the Saybrook colony hired engineer and soldier Lion Gardiner to build a critically needed fort for protection from both the Dutch colonists and local Native American tribes.
ReadHiram Bingham III was a distinguished scholar and public servant attached to a line of the Bingham family that has lived in Salem, Connecticut, for generations.
ReadThis Suffield native’s work in “New Connecticut” and other Western territories reveals how the new nation took stock of its expanding borders.
ReadOn August 13, 1913, workmen unearthed the skeleton of a mastodon, in Farmington, while digging a trench on Alfred A. Pope’s farm and country estate, Hill-Stead.
ReadIf you drive through the area of Ohio still called the Western Reserve today, you will find towns named Norwich, Saybrook, New London, Litchfield, Mansfield, and Plymouth.
ReadRenderings of the terrain served a variety of purposes, from supporting colonists’ land claims as well as tribal counterclaims to settling religious disputes and even adorning the homes of the well-off.
ReadJohn Davenport, the founder of New Haven, was a prominent Puritan leader during the early years of the New England colonies.
ReadOn March 26, 1789, William C. Redfield, the noted American meteorologist, was born in Middletown.
ReadThis intrepid voyager, one of the most adventurous figures in Connecticut’s long history, would have made a great fictional character had he not been real.
ReadWhen the United States Coast Survey set out to compile detailed charts of New Haven Harbor in the 1870s, they hired recent graduates of Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School as assistants.
ReadThe original Windsor settlement contained not only the town of Windsor but also what eventually became the towns of Enfield, Suffield, Simsbury, and others.
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