> Calls were soon received from people as far away as Enfield, Connecticut offering to house the temporarily displaced students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She was born in Bristol, Connecticut, the eighth child of Giles Hooker Cowles and Sally White Cowles.
Shot on locations across Connecticut in 2005, Bikini Bloodbath was planned as the first in an ongoing horror/comedy series.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 East Washington Avenue Bridge was a movable Strauss underneath-counter weight deck-girder bascule bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Born in 1773 in Pomfret, Connecticut, Williams was orphaned as a child and taken into the care of a family friend.
She grew up in Stratford, Connecticut, in a 1753 Gambrel colonial house that her parents restored by hand.
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.
The Farmington Valley is located along the western boundary of Hartford County in Connecticut, bordering Litchfield County immediately to the west.
Her early years were spent in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA before the family returned to the UK in 1976.
In towns such as Beacon Falls, Bethany, Orange, and Simsbury, the losing first selectman candidate can earn a seat on the board of selectmen, depending on the number of votes he or she garners.
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.
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.
In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.
Germans migrating from Hartford, Connecticut, began organizing a colony during the winter of 1856–57.
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.
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.
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.
She is the partner of William Drenttel of Winterhouse Studios, Winterhouse Editions and Winterhouse Institute located in Falls Village, Connecticut.
John Adam Hugo (1873–1945) was an American composer, born in Connecticut.
He was born in New London, Connecticut and attended Madison College (now known as Colgate University) where he graduated at the head of his class in 1823.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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).
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.
Molly Pearson Hales died in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 1959, (see Molly Pearson at IMDb.com) following an extended illness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ralph Geer was born in Windham County, Connecticut, on March 13, 1816, to Joseph Carey Geer, Sr. and Mary Johnson Geer.
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.
He received recruit training and Quartermaster (QM) training at Orlando, Florida, followed by Enlisted Submarine School at Naval Submarine Base New London (Groton, Connecticut).
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.
Her painting "Maine Regatta" has been chosen to be the poster for 2007 Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, 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.
Silvermine, Connecticut, a neighborhood in parts of New Canaan, Wilton and Norwalk
Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, he attended Guilford Academy and from 1829 to 1842 engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven.
Smartfood, first created in 1985 by Andrew Martin, Ken Meyers, and Martin's wife Ann Withey in Hampton, Connecticut.
The South Norwalk Railroad Bridge is an 1895 bridge in Norwalk, Connecticut.
The Stonington had taken on a full list of passengers in Stonington, Connecticut at 9 or 10 pm.
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.
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.
Two years later, Vail moved to Essex, Connecticut to become rector of St. John's Church in that town.
Tish Rabe is a children's book author who lives in New York City, New York and Mystic, 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
In 1750, Adonijah Bidwell, a Yale Divinity School graduate from the Hartford region, became the first minister of Township No. 1.
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.
In 1992 a stop was added at Willimantic, Connecticut, but service there was discontinued in 1995 upon inception of the Vermonter.
She settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949, and re-established herself as a performer and teacher in the United States, touring extensively.
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.
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.
William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.
He emigrated with his wife, Stanislawa, and daughters Anna, Maria and Kinga, to Hartford, Connecticut.
The founding convention of the YCL was held early in May 1922, apparently in Bethel, Connecticut.
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May 15 – Prescott Bush, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1952 till 1963.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
On June 5, 1975, Reilly was named the third Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut, by Pope Paul VI.
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.
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.
Hosmer came from a prominent family; his father Titus Hosmer signed the Articles of Confederation for Connecticut, and Hosmer's brother Stephen became the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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
Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, a Connecticut Supreme Court case concerning same-sex marriage
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
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.
Marsh Hall (Yale University), a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also known as the Othniel C. Marsh House.
Her step-daughter was Connecticut state representative Lile Gibbons.
A dam on the Connecticut River at the village forms the McIndoes Reservoir, which extends upstream to the village of Barnet.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each year, a community service trip consisting of approximately 100 students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut travel down to Tobatí.
In Connecticut, Max and Jessica are a high school couple and very much in love after meeting as freshmen.
During the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Connecticut, part of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks's forces, occupied Washington, then larger than the parish seat of Opelousas.
WQUN, a radio station (1220 AM) licensed to serve Hamden, Connecticut, United States, which held the call sign WCDQ from 1968 to 1978
His uncle, Jonathan Law (Harvard 1695), served as Governor (1741–1750) and Chief Justice of Connecticut (1724–1741).