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Exploration and Discovery - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

From the State Historian: Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III

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From the State Historian: The Map That Wasn’t a Map

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Waste Not, Want Not: The Colonial Era Midden

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Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18

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Discovered Dinosaur Tracks Re-Route Highway and Lead to State Park

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    Rocky Hill

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Putting History on the Map

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America’s First Planetarium – Who knew?

The Susquehanna Settlers

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Surveying Connecticut’s Borders

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Road Signs of the Air

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Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett Helps Found Greenwich

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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape

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Goshen’s Asaph Hall Becomes an Astronomical Success

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Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650

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Site Lines: Connecticut’s Freedom Trail

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Thomas Hooker: Connecticut’s Founding Father

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Sixty Degrees Below Zero: Connecticut Man Explores Antarctica

Putting Cleveland on the Map: Lorenzo Carter on the Ohio Frontier

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Dinosaur Tracks Found – Today in History: August 23

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The Adventure of a Lifetime: John Ledyard and Captain Cook’s Last Voyage

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Hooker’s Journey to Hartford

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Timeline: Settlement of the Colony of Connecticut

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Lion Gardiner Helps to Fortify Early Old Saybrook

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Hiram Bingham III: Machu Picchu Explorer and Politician

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Seth Pease Surveys New Lands

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Mastodon Bones Unearthed – Today in History: August 13

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New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve

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Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking

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Forgotten Founder: John Davenport of New Haven

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William Redfield Born – Today in History: March 26

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John Ledyard, Connecticut’s Most Famous Traveler

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Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven

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Connecticut’s Oldest English Settlement

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    Windsor

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