The 1st Connecticut Cavalry was organized at West Meriden, Connecticut on November 2, 1861, initially as the 1st Battalion Connecticut Cavalry under the command of Major Judson M. Lyon.
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.
It was named after David Waltimyer, a teacher at Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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.
The play takes place on the Fourth of July, 1906, and focuses on the Miller family, presumably of New London, Connecticut.
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.
Allyn Larrabee Brown (born Norwich, Connecticut, October 26, 1883; died in Norwich October 22, 1973) was a lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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.
Bristow Middle School is a middle school in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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.
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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.
He left Hartford for Rockville in 1889, where he briefly had a studio in the Fitch Block, and later at the remains of a tower on Fox Hill, which a family member owned.
Clark Burnham (May 22, 1802 Windham, Windham County, Connecticut – December 30, 1871 Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
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.
Before 2002, the district also contained part of the town of Somers.
Dillon, a Greek American (his grandfather's family name was Anglicized from Deligianis), was born in Norwich, Connecticut to parents who were second-generation Greeks.
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.
In 1795, it was set off and incorporated, the name suggested by a settler from Danbury, Connecticut.
He was in private practice of law in Manchester, Connecticut from 1966 to 1994, and was a counsel to the Town of Manchester Housing Authority from 1972 to 1979, and to the Connecticut State Legislature Judiciary Committee from 1974 to 1975.
The Duck River Cemetery, also known as the Old Lyme Cemetery is the communal burying ground of the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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.
Her album Letters From Sinners & Strangers, was recorded at the Signature Sounds studio in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Born in 1773 in Pomfret, Connecticut, Williams was orphaned as a child and taken into the care of a family friend.
The couple moved to Connecticut to live with their son, Benjamin Howes, in the 1940s, and in 1950, at the age of 78, Ethel Puffer Howes died.
The Farmington Valley is located along the western boundary of Hartford County in Connecticut, bordering Litchfield County immediately to the west.
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.
In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.
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.
They took pictures across New England, particularly in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Germans migrating from Hartford, Connecticut, began organizing a colony during the winter of 1856–57.
In the 1970s there were plans to extend I-91 across the Long Island Sound from New Haven, Connecticut to Long Island in 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 was involved in the establishment of Camp Columbia, a summer engineering camp held near Litchfield, Connecticut, under the aegis of Columbia University.
Lisle was born in New Jersey, but she grew up in rural Farmington, Connecticut and spent her summers in Rhode Island.
Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878—November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957.
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.
Katharine Krom Merritt (Stamford, Connecticut, 9 January 1886 – Stamford, Connecticut, 5 August 1986) was an American physician specializing in pediatrics.
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.
Panelists described the lessons of experiments in local democracy conducted in Montevideo, Uruguay, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Manchester, England, San Francisco, California, Arcata, California, rural Pennsylvania, Hartford, Connecticut, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Darling died at age seventy-two on December 19, 1989 of leukemia at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut.
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.
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum is a 2,000-seat hockey rink in Storrs, Connecticut.
The new couple moved to Gold’s farm in Fairfield soon after, merging their previously independent households.
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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).
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Mary Fish Noyes Silliman (1736-1818) was a matriarch in Revolutionary and post-colonial Connecticut, USA, whose moral authority and determined spirit helped her family weather the hardships of war, illness, and debt.
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.
The town is bordered on the west by Columbia County, New York, on a half-mile portion of its southern border by Dutchess County, New York, and on the rest of the southern border by Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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.
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.
The southern terminus of Route 12 was originally at New London, Connecticut.
North of Norwich, it heads northwest going through Willimantic and Stafford before entering Massachusetts.
They played in New Haven, Connecticut at the New Haven Coliseum, and were the last team to play at that venue, folding when the Coliseum closed in 2002.
A station planned for Georgetown on the Danbury Branch has been temporarily shelved.
New Milford Hospital, (founded 1921) is a not-for profit hospital in Litchfield County, Connecticut which serves western and northwestern Connecticut and parts of southeastern New York state.
The northern slimy salamander, Plethodon glutinosus, is a species of terrestrial plethodontid salamander found through much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States, from New York, west to Illinois, south to Texas, and east to Florida, with isolated populations in southern New Hampshire and northwestern Connecticut.
They debuted their first single as a band ("Hard For You To Love Me", also referred to as "Make It Hard") in over 24 years on January 17, 2009 in Ridgefield, 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.
It was found in Maine in November 2007 and is reported to have been found in Connecticut also.
She ran for and lost the election for the town council in South Windsor, Connecticut under the Republican Party ticket in 2009.
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.
Born in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Reuben Curtis Gaylord was one of eight children of Reuben Gaylord and Mary Curtis who were of Congregational heritage.
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.
Sandisfield lies at the southeast corner of Berkshire County along the Connecticut border, with Hampden County to the east and Litchfield County, Connecticut, to the south.
She lived and worked both in New York City and in Falls Village, Connecticut at the time of her passing.
Silvermine, Connecticut, a neighborhood in parts of New Canaan, Wilton and Norwalk
The South Norwalk Railroad Bridge is an 1895 bridge in Norwalk, 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 film features a life-size talking muslin doll named Mor and was filmed in Wallingford, Connecticut and Monroe, Connecticut.
In Westport, Connecticut, Augie and Isolde Poole celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by turning in an application to the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency.
He left his father's farm at the age of eighteen to study music under Lowell Mason and Thomas Hastings, became organist of a church in New London, Connecticut, in 1857, and in Rochester, New York, in 1859, moved to New York City in 1867, and conducted the "Musical Pioneer," and afterward the New York " Musical Gazette."
Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.
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
Two Rivers admits 44 students, randomly chosen, from each of the five towns it serves: Glastonbury, East Hartford, Manchester, South Windsor, and Hartford.
In 1750, Adonijah Bidwell, a Yale Divinity School graduate from the Hartford region, became the first minister of Township No. 1.
Decommissioned 2 April 1919 and used as a target; sank at her moorings in Two Tree Channel, Niantic, Connecticut 30 July 1919.
The Wabaquasset were a band of Native Americans who formerly lived west of the Quinebaug River, in what is now Windham County, Connecticut.
As the new editions for upper and lower grades were added, Fulton remained the principal writer, even after her marriage in 1930 to Clarence L. Sager—a New York City lawyer—and her moves to New York and Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
Fragments of this meteorite were collected in the Tashua section of Trumbull.
William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.
He was born in Belvedere, California; attended elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 1933–1935.
Windham Technical High School, or Windham Tech, is a technical high school located in Willimantic, Connecticut.
He emigrated with his wife, Stanislawa, and daughters Anna, Maria and Kinga, to Hartford, Connecticut.
The 990 frequency signed on in 1969 as WNTY, a daytime-only station that targeted Southington and nearby Bristol.
Most immigrants live on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.
The founding convention of the YCL was held early in May 1922, apparently in Bethel, Connecticut.
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The 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment recruited in New Haven, Connecticut, for service in the American Civil War.
Alfred N. Phillips (1894–1970), U.S. Representative from Connecticut
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.
For many decades, the Calliopean Society had no physical location, listing itself as located at "1985 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520." Its 1985 box number had been chosen to refer to the inevitable victory of the West over the collectivist totalitarianism described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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.
Notable alumni include former professional football player Marvin Jones, Oklahoma State Representative Jason Murphey, Rhode Island State Representative Larry Valencia, and Connecticut television news anchor Al Terzi.
In 1992, a remake of Christmas in Connecticut was made, starring Dyan Cannon as Elizabeth, Kris Kristofferson as Jefferson Jones, and Tony Curtis as Mr. Yardley.
In 2009 Clancy painted a large rock into a pink brain, dubbed The Brain Rock, on the Connecticut shoreline sparking local controversy after an article on the rock was published in The Day and The New York Times.
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.
The turnpike was renamed after former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge on December 31, 1985, two months after the tolls were removed.
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.
It based in Watertown, Connecticut, that specializes in bottled water, water coolers, coffee, and other hot beverage related products used around the office.
Phineas Lyman (1716–74) major general in the Connecticut militia during the French and Indian War who later led settlers to a tract of land near Natchez, Mississippi
The Ashuelot River in New Hampshire, the Farmington River in Connecticut, and the Neversink River in New York harbor large populations, but these number in the thousands only.
Teamed with SCCA racers Dave Faust and Kirby Goodman, Marshall drove a Chevrolet Malibu with the 9C1 Police Patrol Package and a 350 cubic inch LT-1 Z-28 Chevrolet Camaro engine, finishing 13th in a field of 47 competitors, completing the run from Darien, Connecticut to Redondo Beach, California in 36 hours, 51 minutes.
Edward J. Finnegan (c. 1862–?), mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1910–1913
Following her final marriage at age 51, she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.
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.
Titus Hosmer (1736-1780), a Continental Congressman from Connecticut and father of Stephen Hosmer
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.
Sadly, in Steven Spielberg's 2012 epic Lincoln movie, both English and Augustus Brandegee, his abolitionist Republican colleague from Connecticut, are given two fictional names and are both shown, erroneously, to have voted against the amendment.
A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Rosenworcel received her bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Storrs is a relative of Henry Randolph Storrs, a U.S. Representative from New York; and William L. Storrs, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Lyons Garage, Torrington, Connecticut, a contributing building in the Downtown Torrington Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The company is headquartered at 99 Washington Street, in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut and also has an office at 170 Varick Street in New York, NY.
The northern copperhead snake, while considered rare, does inhabit portions of the Metacomet Ridge in Connecticut.
Gottfried E. Noether (1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut
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.
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
Raysman is admitted to the New York and Connecticut State bars, the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
Robert grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - his mother a talented portrait artist and fashion model who died when Deyber was sixteen, his father Robert Deyber Sr. a real estate broker and POW, survivor of the Bataan Death March.
Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.
Southern New England Telephone, an AT&T operating company serving most of Connecticut
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.
Each year, a community service trip consisting of approximately 100 students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut travel down to Tobatí.
University of Connecticut School of Engineering is a school of engineering located at the UConn's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.
His uncle, Jonathan Law (Harvard 1695), served as Governor (1741–1750) and Chief Justice of Connecticut (1724–1741).
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.
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.