Early Connecticut laws deemed anyone who spent excessive time in taverns as a “tavern haunter” and subjected them to fines and ridicule.
ReadThe German merchant submarine Deutschland made two trips to America, including one to New London, Connecticut, during World War I.
Read…that in 1856 businessman Gail Borden Jr. opened the first…
Read…that in 1966 the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford was featured…
Read… that a memorial in Byram Park honors the town’s…
ReadWestport’s artist Dorothy Hope Smith used her neighbor, Ann Turner, as inspiration for her iconic Gerber Baby trademark drawing.
Read…that Elisha Root invented die casting that revolutionized the mechanization…
Read…that in 1744 Thomas Clap, Rector and Yale College president…
Read…that during a cold Connecticut winter in 1935 Paul Sperry…
Read…that the Hartford Circus Fire may be the worst human-caused…
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ReadIn 1989, the Norwich Branch of the NAACP organized the first official Juneteenth celebration in Connecticut—several other towns followed suit in subsequent years and decades.
Read….that the First Company Governor’s Horse Guards is the oldest,…
Read…that Connecticut’s Reverend Birdsey Grant Northrop popularized Arbor Day celebrations…
Read…that the Shakers of Enfield first packaged seeds in small…
Read…that a storied Naugatuck business had its own “navy” and…
Read…that Yale’s first professor of chemistry, Benjamin Silliman, was also…
ReadHer obituary stated that “Mrs. Ambler was always expected to say something” on behalf of those who had fought for the Union.
Read43rd President George W. Bush was born in New Haven at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital on July 6, 1946.
Read…that Connecticut resident, Augustus G. Hazard owned and operated over…
Read…that in the early 1950s innovative Connecticut minds created the…
ReadConnecticut-born Adrian, the American clothing designer who found success in Hollywood, designed Dorothy’s ruby slippers for The Wizard of Oz.
Read…that the Ingersoll Waterbury Company (now Timex) was saved from…
ReadThe British government made it illegal for colonials to cut down white pine trees over 24 inches in diameter—preserving the trees for use as masts on British naval ships.
Read…that the oldest steam-powered cider mill in the US still…
Read…that the hurricane of 1938 which devastated the Quinebaug Forest…
Read…that Deep River holds the distinction of hosting the largest…
Read…that New Britain could add automobile manufacturing to its long…
Read…Hartford-born landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted re-designed the grounds on…
Read…that the Wadsworth Atheneum contributed to home front morale and…
Read… that in 1896, when the Middletown and Portland Bridge…
Read…that Hurricanes Connie and Diane, which struck within days of…
Read…that patents granted to North Branford residents included one for…
Read…that Weir Farm located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut resulted…
Read…that Cleopatra’s Needle, the Egyptian obelisk erected in Central Park…
Read…that Hartford, famous as the Insurance Capital of the World,…
Read…that writer and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his…
Read…that by 1853, the era of steamboat transportation had largely…
Read…that Greenwich had a special police unit trained to handle suspected foreign agents operating in Connecticut.
Read…that the fire, which swept through Waterbury on a stormy…
Read…that Jupiter Hammon, who endured life-long enslavement became the first…
Read…that from the 1930s until about the early 1970s, Sharon…
Read…that after the Civil War and through the 1930s, recreational…
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