Connecticut - the Land of Steady Habits (From the United States Series) - Yahoo Voices Other important industries in New Haven included the Gilbert Toy Company, famous for the Erector Set, American Flyer trains, chemistry sets, and military aircraft equipment used in World War Two, the Simeon North Interchangable Parts Manufacturing Company, clockmaking, brass hardware, lollipops, so many weapons manufacturers Connecticut became known as the "Arsenal of America," and the Colt automatic revolver. New Haven was the location of important anti-slavery events, including the 1839 Trial of mutineering Mendi Tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Amistad, that became a symbol to abolish slavery. A large portion of New Haven's land area is National Historic District, and the five tallest buildings in the city are the Connecticut Financial Center, the Knights of Columbus Building, Crown Towers, Harkness Towers, and the Kline Biology Tower. Popular museums in New Haven include the Eli Whitney Museum, the Connecticut Childrens Museum, the Knights of Columbus Museum and World Headquarters, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Yale Center For British Art, the New Haven Museum and Historical Society, Artspace, Erector Square, the Parachute Factory, the life-sized replica of the Freedom Schooner Amistad, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the popular outdoor recreational area with 300-foot tall cliffs known as East Rock, the Farmington Canal Trail, the Five Mile Point Lighthouse, Judges Cave at West Rock, the Marsh Botanical Gardens, Edgewood Park with the first Memorial to victims of the Holocaust on American public land, and the International Festival of Arts and ideas. Stamford: Part of the New York Metropolitan Area, and located in Fairfield County, Stamford is the fourth largest city in Connecticut and the eight largest city in New England. Originally known as Rippowam by the Native American Indians who lived there, Stamford has one of the highest educated populations in the United States, and has been the Corporate Home of many Forture 500 and Fortune 1000 companies such as World Wrestling Entertainment, Time Warner Cable, Pitney Bowes, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Xerox, International Paper, the National Broadcasting Corporation, and Clairol. Several movies have been filmed on locations around the Stamford area including Boomerang, The Cardinal, Scenes From A Mall, Beyond The Mat, The Horror Of Party Beach, Wordplay, In Bloom, Reservation Road, Rachael Getting Married, 25/8, Farlanders, Everybody's Fine, Marker, Wrong Number, Rock and Roll Superhero, The Million Dollar Mystery, How Molly Made Good, and The Struggles. Stamford's humid subtropical climate is heavily affected by Long Island Sound, with January typically the coldest month of the year, July the warmest, and an average annual snowfall accumulation of about twenty-one inches. Stamford Attractions include Cummings Park and Beach, Cove Island Park, Scalzi Park, the
SoundWaters Community Center For Environmental Education, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, the Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens, the Fairfield County Astronomical Society, the Stamford Observatory, the Stamford Center For The Arts, the Avon Theater Film Center, the High Ridge Park Fortress and Moat, and the Stamford Downtown Special Services District. Waterbury: Known as the "Brass City," and as the "Brass Horse Properties For Sale Bartlett TN Capital of the World," Waterbury is located on the Naugatuck River in western Connecticut and is the second largest city in New Haven County. For the first half of the 1900s Waterbury was the leading center in the United States for manufacturing brassware, castings, finishings, watches, and clocks. Originally settled in 1624, and admitted as the 28th town in the Connecticut Colony, with the Algonquin Indian name Matetacoke, meaning "place without trees," Waterbury was named because of all the streams that flowed into the Naugatuck River. Because of its industry production and manpower Waterbury was chosen as one of four US cities to be featured in the highly acclaimed Documentary, known as The War, about American life during World War Two. Waterbury is a city of neighborhoods, with residents unusually loyal to their own locales, including such areas as Waterville, Town Plot, Bunker Hill, East Mountain, Robinwood, North Square, Long Hill, Crownbrook, East End, West Side, South End, Overlook, and more. Waterbury landmarks include the 1930-built Municipal Stadium, the Apothecary Building, the Carrie Welton Fountain, the Union Station Clocktower, the Soldier's Monument, the Cass Gilbert Historic District, the Veteran's Monument, the 1905 Hotel Elton, the Waterbury Clock Company, the Benjamin Franklin Statue, the Harrub Pilgrim Memorial, the Chief Two Moon Laboratory, the Holy Land USA Park, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brass Mill Center and Commons, the Bank Street Historic District, the Downtown Waterbury Historic District, and Hamilton Park that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Series: The United States Series I am writing here on associatedcontent.com provides an indepth look at all fifty States that make up this GREAT Country of ours and their five largest cities. The current list of Articles for the United States Series I have published to date include: Alaska - The Land of the Midnight Sun Arizona - The Valley of the Sun Arkansas - The People of the South Wind California - The Golden Gate, Earthquakes and Grizzly Bears Colorful Colorado - The Rocky Mountains, Skiing, and High Technology
Delaware - The Small Wonder Florida - The Snowbirds R Us State Georgia - Goobers, Peaches, and Buzzards Hawaii - Luaus, Pineapples, and Beaches Idaho - The Gem of the Mountains and Potatoes State Illinois - Mining, Factories, and Labor Unions Indiana - Land of Steel and Ducks Iowa - The Ethanol and Food Capital of the World Bleeding Kansas America's Flattest State Kentucky - The Land of Tomorrow Louisiana - The Child of the Mississippi Maine - Lobsters, Lighthouses, and Black Bears Maryland - The "Oh Say Can You See" State Massachusetts - The Cradle of Liberty Michigan - The Automotive State Minnesota - The Bread and Butter State Mississippi - Where Cotton Was King Comments from readers are always welcome so let me know what you think about these Articles. Sources: This article was compiled from websites that provide much more information on Connecticut including: americantowns.com, cityofnewhaven.com, hartford.com, stamford.ct.us, and waterburyct.org. . Frequent Spring rains, hot and humid Summers, and mild Falls produce colorful foliage in October and November, and tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and tornadoes occasionally affect the State as well. Industries: Major industries in Connecticut include agriculture, eggs, lobsters, shellfish, clams, cattle, tobacco, dairy products, nursery plant stocks, transportation, helicopters, aircraft parts, heavy industrial
machinery, electrical equipment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and military weaponry. Bridgeport: Incorporated in 1821, the center of the 41st largest urban area in the United States, and located in Fairfield County, Bridgeport is part of the New York Metropolitan Area, and was the home of P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Originally a portion of the city of Stratford, on Long Island Sound, the first settlement of Bridgeport was known as Pequonnuck and was a hub for pirates during the American Revolutionary War. Bridgeport was the home of the Frisbie Pie Company, and the first Subway Restaurant that opened in 1965, and can be found at Five Corners on Jewett Avenue, Beechmont Avenue, North Main Street, and Tesiny Avenue. Located on Newfield Harbor, shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and farming were major industries in the early life of Bridgeport, a city that became a manufacturing center in the late 1800s, producing carraiges, saddles, ammunition, brass fittings, sewing machines, brassieres, and the famous Bridgeport milling machines, and by 1930 had more than 500 operating factories. Several movies and television shows have been filmed in Bridgeport including All Good Things, Away We Go, Confessions Of A Shopaholic, College Road Trip, The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-in-te-Moon Marigolds, Made For Each Other, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Old Dogs, The Wrestler, Made In America, Muggsy, What Just Happened, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and more. Attractions found in the Bridgeport area include the Gathering of the Vibes Weeklong Festival, Seaside Park, the Black Rock Art Center, the Summer Sounds of the World Concert Series, Playhouse on the Green, the Klein Memorial Auditorium, the Arena at Harbor Yard, the Barnum Museum, Veterans Memorial Park, the Housatonic Museum of Art, the Discovery Museum and Planetarium, the Challenger Center For Space Science Education, Beardsley Park, the Beardsley Zoo, the Bassickville Historic District, the Black Rock Gardens Historic District, the Golden Hill Historic District, and the Sterling Hill Historic District. Hartford: Located on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the State, Hartford is the 45th largest metropolitan area in the Country. Originally established in 1614, and known as Dutch Point, the first English settlers arrived in 1635 and named the area Newtown, but in 1637 renamed it Hartford. Wellknown as the "Insurance Capital of the World," and the historic International Center and World Headquarters of many insurance companies including Aetna, Travelers, the Phoenix Companies, The Hartford, and CIGNA, Hartford is also the home of several major Corporations including United Technologies, US Fire Arms, Colt Firearms, and the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. Almost 400 years old, making it one of the oldest cities in the United States, Hartford houses the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest public art museum in the Country, Bushnell Park, the Country's
oldest public park, and Hartford Public, the second oldest Secondary School system in the Country. Hartford Attractions include the Buckeley Bridge, the longest, widest, stone-arch bridge in the world, the world's largest Colonial Revival architectural building, the Cathedral of Saint Joseph, the Colt Armory, the Connecticut Science Center, the Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court, Constitution Plaza, the Cricket Hall of Fame, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the Mark Twain House and Museum, the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, and the XL Center. New Haven: Located on New Haven harbor, on Long Island Sound's northern shore, and founded in 1638, New Haven's original layout, known as the Nine Square Plan, is recognized by the American Institute of Certified Planners as a National Historic Planning Landmark, and its sixteen acre New Haven Green is a National Historic Landmark. Originally occupied by Quinnipiac Indians, the area that became New Haven was settled by Puritans from the Massachusettes Bay Colony, and was the Co-Capital of Connecticut between 1701 and 1873. On April 22, 1775, in an event known as Powder House Day, New Haven's Second Company conflicted with the British marking the city's entrance into the American Revolutionary War. Incorporated in 1784 New Haven became wealthy because of Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin and gun manufacturing factory. Statehood: Bordered by New York, Massachusettes, and Rhode Island, and governed by its third constitution, adopted in 1965, Connecticut is located in New England as one of the Original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States, and joined the Union on January 9, 1788, as the 5th State. Other natural features of the State include the Gold Coast of Fairfield County, the horse farms of Litchfield County, rural areas, rolling hills, Southwick Jog that marks the State's northern boundary with Massachusettes, southwestern Connecticut's Panhandle, known as "The Tail," an area of about 61,660 acres east of the Byram River containing the towns of New Canaan, Darien, Norwalk, and Greenwich, and some of the most expensive real estate in the United States. Forests: Lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and forests are developed into recreational areas in Connecticut including the Algonquin State Forest, the Cockaponset State Forest, the Mohawk State Forest, the Horse Ranches For Sale Bartlett TN Mattatuck State Forest, the Meshomasic State Forest, the Natchaug State Forest, the Nipmuck State Forest, the Shenipsit State Forest, the Pachaug State Forest, and the Salmon River State Forest. "Greens": Many Connecticut towns center around a "Green," or common open area at a central location, with historical scenic symbols near them, that provide open-air meeting places for the town's residents, such as New Haven Green, the most famous Town Green, Lebanon Green, Connecticut's largest, or Wethersfield Green, the State's oldest. Wealth:
The Constitution State enjoys a strong maritime heritage, access to raw materials used in manufacturing, financial organizations, insurance companies, and Family Wealth that provide Connecticut with the highest per capita income, and the highest median household income, in the Country. Climate: Connecticut's climate ranges from Humid Continental along Long Island Sound, to Humid Subtropical with seasonal extremes affected by the Atlantic Ocean, and the southern Connecticut coast is considered the farthest North on the East Coast that Needle Palms, Crape Myrtles, Southern Magnolias, and Dwarf Palmettos can be expected to grow. Connecticut winters are cold, and heavy snowfalls are common, with higher accumulations in the northwestern part of the State. Connecticut is also the 29th most heavily populated, and 48th largest State by area, in the Country. Names: With Yankee Doodle its official State Song, and a name derived from the Mohegan Indian word "quinntukqut," meaning the "place of the long tidal river," Connecticut, "the Land of Steady Habits," was known by George Washington as "the Provisions State".
Tri-State Region: New Haven County, Litchfield County, Fairfield County, and the cities of Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, and Waterbury, along with most of Connecticut's population, can be found in the Tri-State Region surrounding New York City, and are within commuting distance of Manhattan, or receive television broadcasts originating from there. Dutch Settlement: Settled by the Dutch as a small, short-lived settlement at the junction of the Park and Connecticut Rivers, known as Huys de Goede Hoop, and with half of early Connecticut known as New Netherlands, another Dutch Colony located between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, the Nutmeg State was influential in helping to develop the Federal government during early Colonial
times. Colonies: Historically important Colonial settlements that grew into the State of Connecticut include Windsor, the first European settlement in the State, Hartford, now known as the "Insurance Capital of the World," Saybrook, located at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and the home of the largest One Day Fife and Drum Corp in the world, Fairfield, the "Dogwood Capital of the World," and the July 2006 Money Magazine's Ninth Best Place To Live In The United States, and The Best Place To Live In the Northeast, New Haven, established in 1638 and known as the "Elm City" because it had the first public tree planting program in America, Farmington, originally inhabited by the Tunxis Indians and the World Headquarters of the Carrier Heating and Air Conditioning Corporation, the Otis Elevator Company, and the Carvel Ice Cream Corporation, among other major industrial organizations, Stratford with an aviation, theater, and military history, and the Great Meadows Unit of the McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, New London, originally known as Pequot for the Indians who resided there when the Colony was first established, and the home of the United States Coast Guard Academy, Stamford, originally known as Rippowam, famous for Witch Trials, and the eighth largest city in New England, Vernon, now Rockville, and the Rock Mill the town is known for, Middletown, originally incorporated as Mattabeseck, a busy sea port and industrial center, and the Connecticut Colony, established March 3, 1636 as a Puritan haven known as the River Colony, and the scene of the Pequot Indian War in an event known as the Charter Oak Incident. Fundamental Orders: The first Constitutions drawn up in North America were established as the January 14, 1639 Fundamental Orders by the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies, that merged in 1662 under a Royal Charter, making Connecticut a Crown Colony of England. Revolutionary War: Connecticut was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, a battle that included the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the American victory in 1781, and the 1783 Treaty of Paris that forced British abandonment of any claims to the United States. Connecticut Compromise: Reached between May 25 and September 17, at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, held to revise the Articles of Confederation, and one of the central events in the history of the United States, the Connecticut Compromise was an agreement between the States that helped determine the legislative representation each State would have under the United States Constitution and proposed a Senate and a House of Representatives be established. National Park Areas: National Park areas in Connecticut include the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Corridor in northeastern Connecticut that is wellknown for Classic New England scenery and some of the largest unbroken forests in Southern New England, the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Ridgefield and Wilton, and a portion of the approximately 2178 mile long Appalachian National Scenic Trail that extends from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Mount Katahdin, Maine, and is famous for Thru-Hikers attempting to complete the marked hiking trail in one season through the
fourteen States of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusettes, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Attractions: Major Attractions in Connecticut include skiing, hockey, hiking, bird watching, the Mark Twain House and Museum, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, the Yale Center For British Art, the American Clock and Watch Museum, the Hartford Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities, the Iwo Jima Survivors Memorial Park, the Timexpo Museum and Easter Island Statue, the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium and penguins, Long Island Sound, the Connecticut Art Trail with fifteen museums and historic sites, the Windsor Northwest Park and Nature Center, the Copernican Observatory and Planetarium, the Eli Whitney Museum, Talcott Mountain State Park, the Museum of Connecticut History, the Railroad Museum of New England, the Institute For American Indian Studies, the Southford Falls State Park, the Carousel Museum of New England, the Connecticut River Museum, the Foxwoods Resort Casino, the USS Nautilus and Submarine Force Museum, Walking Tours of Yale University, the Yale Peabody Museum, and free-roaming buffalo at the Creamery Branch Bison Farm. Landscape: Connecticut has incorporated 169 towns within the State's 5543 square miles. Bear Mountain, in the northwest corner of the State, is the highest peak and Mount Frissell's southern slope is where New York, Massachusettes, and Connecticut meet