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 team discussed playing the game at the Yale Bowl in New Haven if the field did not become available in time, but on Wednesday, August 31, the team announced the game would be played in East Hartford on Saturday at noon.
The 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment recruited in New Haven, Connecticut, for service in the American Civil War.
The 6th Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 12, 1861 under the command of Colonel John Lyman Chatfield.
The play takes place on the Fourth of July, 1906, and focuses on the Miller family, presumably of New London, Connecticut.
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.
August 27- Louis Kaplan retains the world Bantamweight title with a fifteen round draw (tie) against Babe Herman, in Waterbury.
Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies' is an American cultivar raised by Mark Brand and William Smith of Storrs, Connecticut, and patented in 2012.
The Byram section of Greenwich is at the southern end of the river, on the Connecticut side.
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.
Later, his fortunes declined, possibly because of health issues and certainly because of mounting racism nationwide, and he sold his paintings door-to-door in Rockville, Connecticut, where he died in 1923 in virtual obscurity, around the age of 75.
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.
Before 2002, the district also contained part of the town of Somers.
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.
He was born and raised in Terryville, Connecticut, the third child of Henry Atwater and Catherine Fenn Atwater.
The Duck River Cemetery, also known as the Old Lyme Cemetery is the communal burying ground of the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The East Washington Avenue Bridge was a movable Strauss underneath-counter weight deck-girder bascule bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
At the age of sixteen, Bancroft was apprenticed to a physician in Killingworth, Connecticut, but ran away after a few years.
Edward P. Weed (April 7, 1834 – April 18, 1880) was Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1867 to 1868, and in 1874 until his resignation.
Her album Letters From Sinners & Strangers, was recorded at the Signature Sounds studio in Pomfret, Connecticut.
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 film premiered at the Hartford, Connecticut art house theater Cinestudio in the spring of 2001 and went on to play in the New York Independent International Film & Video Festival.
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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.
Born in Willimantic, Connecticut, Norris is the son of Valija and Henry Nukis who were Latvian immigrants.
Eight games are played on the campus' of the teams in the Naismith division before the tournament takes place at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.
Henry Probasco (born in Newtown, Connecticut on 4 July 1820; died 25 October 1902) was an American hardware magnate noted for the Probasco Fountain and the Henry Probasco House.
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
He spent time in Decatur's squadron, which was bottled up at New London during 1814.
He was involved in the establishment of Camp Columbia, a summer engineering camp held near Litchfield, Connecticut, under the aegis of Columbia University.
Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878—November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957.
She is the partner of William Drenttel of Winterhouse Studios, Winterhouse Editions and Winterhouse Institute located in Falls Village, Connecticut.
The John Kendrick House is located on West Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
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).
The Land of College Prophets is a 2005 independent comedy film produced by the Hale Manor Collective, a trio of Connecticut filmmakers consisting of Mike Aransky, Phil Guerrette and Thomas Edward Seymour.
The first settler in Lapeer was Alvin N. Hart, who was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on February 11, 1804.
Snow totals as of the morning of March 19 are: 4" in Manchester, Connecticut; 4.5" in Ludlow, Massachusetts; 5.2" in South Weymouth, Massachusetts; 5.3" in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; and 8.0" in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.
He assumed senior status on March 1, 1971, serving in that capacity until his death, in Mystic, Connecticut.
Clee was born in 1888 in Thompsonville, Connecticut to Frederick and Margaret (Kelley) Clee.
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.
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.
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.
Mary Fish was born on May 30, 1736 in Stonington, Connecticut to the Puritan Reverend Joseph Fish and his wife Rebecca.
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The new couple moved to Gold’s farm in Fairfield soon after, merging their previously independent households.
Molly Pearson Hales died in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 1959, (see Molly Pearson at IMDb.com) following an extended illness.
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.
A burglar, he learned his trade in the property market around South Windham, 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.
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"Route 10" still exists as a continuous state highway in each of its original states, running from New Haven, Connecticut to Woodsville, New Hampshire.
The southern terminus of Route 12 was originally at New London, Connecticut.
Route 32 is a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running from New London, Connecticut through Massachusetts to Keene, New Hampshire.
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.
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.
She ran for and lost the election for the town council in South Windsor, Connecticut under the Republican Party ticket in 2009.
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 graduated from Yale University in 1865, was instructor there for two years, was United States consul at Piraeus in Greece in 1869-1871, taught Greek in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1876-1885, and was principal of Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut, from 1885 to 1903, the school owing its prosperity to him hardly less than to its founders.
Rockville is located near the borders of the towns of Exeter, Rhode Island and Voluntown, 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.
The Stonington had taken on a full list of passengers in Stonington, Connecticut at 9 or 10 pm.
On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero was substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, Connecticut.
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.
Wilkos' third season premiered September 14, 2009, originating from the Stamford Media Center in Stamford, Connecticut complete with a new studio.
In Westport, Connecticut, Augie and Isolde Poole celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by turning in an application to the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency.
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.
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.
Mr. Connell was the 1978 Republican Candidate for Connecticut's 2nd congressional district, losing the election to Christopher Dodd who went on to become a United States Senator and Presidential Contender.
A 2008 production ran at Spirit of Broadway Theatre in Norwich, Connecticut.
In Connecticut, Max and Jessica are a high school couple and very much in love after meeting as freshmen.
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.
University of Connecticut School of Engineering is a school of engineering located at the UConn's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.
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.
William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.
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.
He emigrated with his wife, Stanislawa, and daughters Anna, Maria and Kinga, to Hartford, Connecticut.
Most immigrants live on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.
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May 15 – Prescott Bush, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1952 till 1963.
192nd Military Police Battalion, a National Guard battalion assigned to the Connecticut Army National Guard
In May 2010, Caputo was compared to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam.
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.
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.
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.
The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.
The turnpike was renamed after former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge on December 31, 1985, two months after the tolls were removed.
Connecticut Yankees RFC, a rugby union team based in Norwalk, Connecticut
Shays grew up in Darien, Connecticut, attended Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and received an MBA and MPA from New York University.
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.
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.
He would live with family members in his early life, then the Wallace House, rented apartments and houses in Washington (including 4701 Connecticut Avenue), Blair House (the official state visitors residence), and the White House, but never a house that he had purchased.
Salt extraction began in 1856, by capitalists from Connecticut named Morgan Buckley and William Healey, who named the town for Hartford.
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
John H. Light, an American lawyer, politician from the state of Connecticut, and Connecticut Attorney General
The area has been and continues to be home to many famous or wealthy residents, including Mia Farrow, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Leary, Kevin Bacon, and is also sometimes referred to as the Hamptons of ConnecticutReference Needed.
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
Her step-daughter was Connecticut state representative Lile Gibbons.
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.
The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.
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
The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.
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.
As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol.
The lake described in the tale is very reminiscent of the post-glacial Lake Hitchcock which occupied the Connecticut River Valley from Burke, Vermont to New Britain, Connecticut 15,000 years ago.
Price Chopper Supermarkets, a supermarket chain with stores in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and 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.
Her properties included Bonniebrook; an apartment in Washington Square in Greenwich Village that inspired the song Rose of Washington Square; Castle Carabas in Connecticut; and Villa Narcissus on the Isle of Capri, Italy.
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 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.
Each year, a community service trip consisting of approximately 100 students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut travel down to Tobatí.
WQUN, a radio station (1220 AM) licensed to serve Hamden, Connecticut, United States, which held the call sign WCDQ from 1968 to 1978
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.
WTNH, a television station (channel 8 analog/10 digital) licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, United States, which held the call sign WNHC-TV from 1948 to 1971