> Calls were soon received from people as far away as Enfield, Connecticut offering to house the temporarily displaced students.
The 1st Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on April 22, 1861 under the command of Colonel Daniel Tyler.
The 3rd Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on May 14, 1861 under the command of Colonel John L. Chatfield.
In the fall of 1956 they moved to a rented "sprawling white saltbox farmhouse" in Bridgewater, Connecticut, near a literary and artistic community that included Arthur Miller and William Styron in nearby Roxbury.
Known as "The First Lady of Herbs," she owned and operated Caprilands Herb Farm in Coventry, Connecticut for over 55 years.
Alexander Barrett Klots (December 12, 1903, New York City – April 18, 1989, Putnam, Connecticut) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the now American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
Lauzun's Legion left their winter quarters in Lebanon, Connecticut on 9 June 1781 and marched south through Connecticut known as the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route.
Mention must be made of the visit to the castle in 1873 by Mark Twain who insisted upon buying the Dining Room fireplace, which is now in the Mark Twain Museum, Hartford, Connecticut.
The quartet continued to maintain its summer residence at Music Mountain, a hilltop near Falls Village, Connecticut, where, in 1930, Gordon had founded a Chamber Music Festival named after the hilltop.
August 27- Louis Kaplan retains the world Bantamweight title with a fifteen round draw (tie) against Babe Herman, in Waterbury.
Newmark was born in Westport, Connecticut, USA on 8 May 1958 to Howard Newmark and Gilda Gourlay (née Rames).
The Byram section of Greenwich is at the southern end of the river, on the Connecticut side.
In 1953, the governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts began to plan a 260-mile long expressway that would link New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
In September 2009, Perez married his partner, Keith Rinehard, in Westport, Connecticut.
He and his wife had to sell their New Hampshire home and eventually moved to Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Connecticut Yankee Council presently operates five camps: Camp Sequassen in New Hartford, Deer Lake Scout Reservation in Killingworth, Hoyt Scout Reservation in Redding, Camp Pomperaug in Union, and Wah Wah Taysee in North Haven.
Before 2002, the district contained the towns of Easton, Redding and parts of Newtown and Weston; boundary changes which took effect for the 2002 election removed Newtown and part of Redding from the district and added the remaining portion of Weston.
The district consists of the town of Rocky Hill, the historical base of the district in which both representatives since 1975 have lived, and parts of the towns of Newington, which is split between the 24th, 27th and 29th districts, and Wethersfield, which is split between the 28th and 29th districts.
The district's boundaries were radically changed in 2001: prior to the boundary change, the district contained the entire towns of Canterbury and Plainfield, part of Killingly and did not include Sterling at all.
Cornelius Wendell Wickersham was born on June 25, 1885 in Greenwich, Connecticut as a son of George W. Wickersham, an American lawyer and future United States Attorney General.
In 1914 the Brinleys built a home, Datchet House, in Silvermine (New Canaan) Connecticut, designed by their friend Austin W. Lord, and spent part of each year there for the remainder of their lives.
Born in Derby, Connecticut on October 16, 1833, Ebenezer D. Bassett was the second child of Eben Tobias and Susan Gregory, who were both free blacks.
She grew up in Stratford, Connecticut, in a 1753 Gambrel colonial house that her parents restored by hand.
Everything Moves Alone is a 2001 independent comedy film produced by the Hale Manor Collective, a trio of Connecticut filmmakers consisting of Mike Aransky, Phil Guerrette and Thomas Edward Seymour.
Her early years were spent in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA before the family returned to the UK in 1976.
The Valley Railroad in Essex, Connecticut owns a pair of 80-tonners, 0900 and 0901, for use on the Essex Clipper Dinner Train.
Born in Putnam, Connecticut, Warner dreamed of being a famous author from the age of five.
They later moved from Hartford, Connecticut to Atlanta, Georgia, and then to Princeton, New Jersey, as Reverend Johnson pursued undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology.
Hilda Spong (14 May 1875 London – 16 May 1955 Ridgefield, Connecticut USA), was an acclaimed English actress of stage and screen, appearing in Australia, Europe, and America.
Although not as large as the vast brownstone quarries at Portland, Connecticut, the Hummelstown operation was their equal in every respect and a viable competitor of most other brownstone quarries including those at Medina and Moscow, New York.
Just short of three miles (5 km) later, I-95 enters Mystic and interchanges with Allyn Street at Exit 89 and Route 27 at Exit
After teaching high school English for six years in New Haven, Connecticut, Conaty decided to pursue a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
He spent time in Decatur's squadron, which was bottled up at New London during 1814.
Jeremy Powers (born June 29, 1983 in Niantic, Connecticut) is an American professional racing cyclist who has found success in cyclo-cross and road bicycle racing.
John Adam Hugo (1873–1945) was an American composer, born in Connecticut.
The John Kendrick House is located on West Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
Joseph W. Hubbell (October 12, 1800 – February 13, 1884) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk from 1839 to 1841, and the first Warden of the Borough of Norwalk after its incorporation.
Katharine Krom Merritt (Stamford, Connecticut, 9 January 1886 – Stamford, Connecticut, 5 August 1986) was an American physician specializing in pediatrics.
Katie attended The Independent Day School, a small, independent day school in Middlefield, Connecticut, and is currently taking a musical theater course at Pace University.
In 1809, a man named Rufus Kingsley, his wife Lucinda, and their four children John, Nancy, Rufus, and Lucretia moved from Windham, Connecticut to what was then Harford Township (Benning 1).
Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.
Clee was born in 1888 in Thompsonville, Connecticut to Frederick and Margaret (Kelley) Clee.
After receiving the largest vote total in Connecticut Libertarian Party history, Paul Passarelli became the party's first US Senate candidate to retain ballot access for that office despite the towns of Middlefield and Washington failing to report any votes for his candidacy to the Secretary of the State.
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The towns of East Windsor and Preston also inadvertently failed to report any votes for a combined 14 Working Families and Independent Party candidates.
Louis Timothy Stone (1875-13 March 1933), also known as Lou Stone, was an American journalist who fabricated stories about the flora and fauna surrounding his town of Winsted, Connecticut, thus earning himself the name of the Winsted Liar.
Born in Farmington, Connecticut in January 1800, Peck completed preparatory studies and taught school in Holley, New York.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Creek is the son of J. Fred Creek, a realtor from New Mexico, and his wife Patricia, originally of Indianapolis.
The book was written by Simenon while staying in Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Perry appeared in earlier regional theatre productions, including the world premiere of Princesses at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut as well as at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington and Wild Mushrooms at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum is a 2,000-seat hockey rink in Storrs, Connecticut.
Together, they lived in a house on Elm Street in New Haven and had five children: Rebecca in 1759 (died four days after birth), Joseph (called Jose) in 1761, John in 1762, James in 1764, and Mary in 1766 (died in 1770).
Matt Nickerson (born January 11, 1985, in Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.) is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing with Fife Flyers, the 6'4" Connecticut last season in Finland with KooKoo.
Max R. Kadesky (February 8, 1901 in Winsted, Connecticut – August 14, 1970) was an All-American college football player for the University of Iowa.
Meredith Wallace, APRN, CS-ANP is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the Yale University School of Nursing in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Morton Dean Joyce Collection of United States Revenue Stamps was sold at the Daniel F. Kelleher Company auction June 4 to 6, 1991 and by the auction house of Andrew Levitt, in Danbury, Connecticut, in six sessions from September 12 to 14.
The Mystic Ballet, based in Mystic, Connecticut is a dance company and performing arts educational institution.
The famous hitchhiking incident takes place on North Main Street in Stonington Town.
Rawls died April 13, 1985 at the Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, after a long illness.
The river flows from northwest Connecticut southward into the Housatonic River in Derby, Connecticut.
New England Route 10 in Connecticut began in the city of New Haven.
The southern terminus of Route 12 was originally at New London, Connecticut.
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New England Route 12 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Groton, Connecticut, through Worcester, Massachusetts, and Keene, New Hampshire, to Morrisville, Vermont.
North of Norwich, it heads northwest going through Willimantic and Stafford before entering Massachusetts.
A station planned for Georgetown on the Danbury Branch has been temporarily shelved.
She went on to pastor in churches at Marshfield and Montpelier, Vermont; Weymouth, Massachusetts; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Racine, Wisconsin.
Excellent Otozoum specimens from the Portland Quarry may be seen in the Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
During a three year hiatus from the Foreign Service, Pat served as the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of Otis Elevator Company, in Farmington, Connecticut.
The Podunk Bluegrass Festival is an annual bluegrass festival formerly held the first full weekend of August in East Hartford, Connecticut, and Norwich, Connecticut.
Radiant Baby was partially developed at the 1998 O'Neil Music Theater Conference in Waterford, Connecticut.
Ralph Geer was born in Windham County, Connecticut, on March 13, 1816, to Joseph Carey Geer, Sr. and Mary Johnson Geer.
The Ramnapping Trophy is on display to the public as part of the J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum on the UConn Main Campus in Storrs, Connecticut.
His assignments included serving as Executive Officer of the USCGC Papaw (WLB-308) in Charleston, South Carolina, the USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) in New London, Connecticut and the USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before commanding the USCGC Vigorous (WMEC-627) in New London, Connecticut.
He received recruit training and Quartermaster (QM) training at Orlando, Florida, followed by Enlisted Submarine School at Naval Submarine Base New London (Groton, Connecticut).
Pearson was raised by his parents, Robert and Betsy Pearson, in Riverside, Connecticut, along with his siblings, Bradbury and Wendy.
Then in the year following he had his first one-man show in the United States at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut - March 9, 1892 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American botanist.
Silvermine, Connecticut, a neighborhood in parts of New Canaan, Wilton and Norwalk
Smartfood, first created in 1985 by Andrew Martin, Ken Meyers, and Martin's wife Ann Withey in Hampton, Connecticut.
South Windham, Connecticut, a census-designated place in the town of Windham, Connecticut
The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.
The Independent Day School is a private school located in Middlefield, Connecticut offering instruction to students from pre-school through the eighth grade.
The screenplay was originally set in a small town in Rhode Island, but the film was shot in Norfolk, CT, which also became the character's hometown.
A 2008 production ran at Spirit of Broadway Theatre in Norwich, Connecticut.
Tracy was born in Manhasset, Long Island, New York to parents Courtland Dixon Barnes (June 13, 1881 in Stonington, Connecticut - ?) and Katherine Lansing Barney (February 6, 1885 in New York City - ?), siblings were
The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.
Decommissioned 2 April 1919 and used as a target; sank at her moorings in Two Tree Channel, Niantic, Connecticut 30 July 1919.
University of Connecticut School of Engineering is a school of engineering located at the UConn's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.
The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, Hutchins was graduated from Amherst (Massachusetts) College in 1842.
The remaining part of the debris field extended into neighboring Trumbull.
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Fragments of this meteorite were collected in the Tashua section of Trumbull.
A native of Connecticut, he was a member of the first graduating class of Birmingham High School in Derby, Connecticut (now Derby High School) in 1877.
Fox and his wife were residents of the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut for four decades and he was active in the First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich.
He was born at Windham, Windham Co., Conn., graduated in 1831 at Yale, and in 1834 was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational church at Kent, Conn. He early accepted the tenet of the Catholic Apostolic Church, commonly spoken of as the "Irvingites," and in 1849, having given up his charge at Kent.
Windham Technical High School, or Windham Tech, is a technical high school located in Willimantic, Connecticut.
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192nd Military Police Battalion, a National Guard battalion assigned to the Connecticut Army National Guard
Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season.
The 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment recruited in New Haven, Connecticut, for service in the American Civil War.
As a scholarship grantee for the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program, she pursued her master's degree at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1963.
In May 2010, Caputo was compared to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam.
Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies' is an American cultivar raised by Mark Brand and William Smith of Storrs, Connecticut, and patented in 2012.
Coming out of New York City, the route would have followed Interstate 95 along the modern New England Thruway until the Connecticut border, where it would meet up with what later became the Connecticut Turnpike.
After her death, he commissioned a stained glass window in her memory showing the view from their Connecticut summer home, from the firm of his relative Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Mr. Glazer, formerly the Republican National Committeeman for Connecticut, served on the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee and was the Sergeant-at-Arms at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
The occurrence of columbite in the United States was made known from a specimen sent by Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut to Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
Oliver Heaviside in England and Josiah Willard Gibbs, a professor at Yale University in Connecticut, also felt that quaternion methods were too cumbersome, often requiring the scalar or vector part of a result to be extracted.
It based in Watertown, Connecticut, that specializes in bottled water, water coolers, coffee, and other hot beverage related products used around the office.
On June 5, 1975, Reilly was named the third Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut, by Pope Paul VI.
He later taught at the Grand Central School of Art and kept a studio in Falls Village, Connecticut.
He also owned a specially adapted home on one of Connecticut's Thimble Islands.
Salt extraction began in 1856, by capitalists from Connecticut named Morgan Buckley and William Healey, who named the town for Hartford.
The Hartford Wanderers are sponsored by Ten Penny Ale which is made by Burnside Brewery, Red Rock Tavern, Connecticut Army National Guard, Crispin Hard Cider Company, ProEx Physical Therapy, and BSA Landscaping.
Lucy was a descendant of Gov. William Bradford (1590-1657) of the Mayflower and Jonathan Rudd who was married, in a legendary ceremony, at Bride Brook in what is now East Lyme, Connecticut in December 1646.
His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.
Charles Ives House, Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut
A New England native, John Drexel is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and holds an M.A. in English from the University of Leeds, England, where his thesis advisor was Geoffrey Hill.
Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, a Connecticut Supreme Court case concerning same-sex marriage
Ireland trained at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation in Idyllwild, California, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Hartt School, a performing-arts conservatory at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut.
The northern copperhead snake, while considered rare, does inhabit portions of the Metacomet Ridge in Connecticut.
New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Co-sponsors were the Democratic representatives Richard Neal (D-MA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT); a companion bill was introduced by Senator John Kerry.
Gottfried E. Noether (1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut
John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy
He was born in Demerara, British Guiana, August 14, 1809, but was early sent to New England, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He practiced law in Boston, but abandoned it for editorial work there and later in New York.
Patricia Noonan McQueeney (born Bridgeport, Connecticut, September 16, 1927; died Santa Monica, California September 4, 2005) was an American actress, television personality, and talent agent perhaps best known as Harrison Ford's manager.
As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol.
Price Chopper Supermarkets, a supermarket chain with stores in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut
WQQQ, a radio station formerly known as Q103 in Sharon, Connecticut, United States
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), United States Representative from Connecticut
Roger S. Wolfson is an American TV writer and screenwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, and is most notable for writing for the TV series Fairly Legal, Saving Grace, The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Century City.
Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Russian Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia is a 2013 psychological horror film that serves as a brother film to The Haunting in Connecticut by Gold Circle Films.
The Pist was an American hardcore punk band that was formed in Connecticut in the winter of 1992 by Al Ouimet on vocals and bass, Bill Chamberlain on guitar, and Greg Bennick on drums.
Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Tessier was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, attended University College Dublin and lived in London in the United Kingdom for several years (where he was the managing director of Millington Books) before returning to the United States, where he lives still.
The Titicus River is an 8.5 mile river in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York that drains into the Titicus Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply system.
Lori has opposed legislation in Connecticut proposed by State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it in the control of the laity.
Most immigrants live on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.