Connecticut

History of Connecticut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Connecticut

here you can see all history of Connecticut . you can see also about
Modernization and industry, Civil War era and about 20th century
The most interesting for me was "Civil War era
As a result of the industrialization of the state and New England as a region, Connecticut manufacturers played a prominent role in supplying the Union Army and Navy with weapons, ammunition, and military materiel during the Civil War. A number of Connecticut residents were generals in the Federal service and Gideon Welles was the United States Secretary of the Navy and a confidant of President Abraham Lincoln.Starting in the 1830s, and accelerating when Connecticut abolished slavery entirely in 1848, African Americans from in- and out-of-state began relocating to urban centers for employment and opportunity, forming new neighborhoods such as Bridgeport's Little Liberia.[3]"


http://www.usahistory.info/New-England/Connecticut.html
at this page you can read about historically nationalities of Connecticut.
I think that the main information here is "Meanwhile John Winthrop, son of the Massachusetts governor, built a fort at themouthof the Connecticut River, which was named Saybrook, after Lord Say and Lord Brook, under who authority he acted. Of more importance was the founding of the New Haven colony in 1638. Rev. John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, a wealthy merchant from London, led a company of emigrants, mostly from Massachusetts, and pitched their tents on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. Here under a great oak Davenport expounded the Scriptures, saying that the people, like the Son of Man, were led forth into the wilderness to be tempted; and here they set up their governement with the Mosaic law as their code adapted to the conditions, and with the closest union of Church and State. Eaton was made governor and was reelected annually for many years. Other towns, Milford, Guilford, and Stamford, soon came into existence, and these united with New Haven, all taking the name of the New Haven Colony. Thus the river valley and the northern shore of the sound gradually became people with Puritan settlers. These two newborn colonies came near being strangled in their infancy. Their dangers were twofold -- from the Dutch and from the Indians. The Dutch of New Amersterdam claimed the Connecticut Valley, and for many years there was desultory strife between them and the English settlers, when at length the latter succeeded in driving out the former."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV0ssij84eU
here you can hear about famous people of Connecticut

Geography of Connecticut

http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ct_geography.htm
Here you can read and you can see how small Connecticut is...
I know that the most useful information is "he highest areas of Connecticut are in the northwest upland; the Berkshires. Connecticut gradually loses elevation to the south where it finally meets Long Island Sound. The east is a hilly upland drained by rivers including the Connecticut and Thames Rivers. The small state of Connecticut can be divided into five distinct land regions; the Taconic Section, the Western New England Upland, the Connecticut Valley Lowland, the Eastern New England Upland and the Coastal Lowlands."


http://geography.howstuffworks.com/united-states/geography-of-connecticut.htm
In this page you can read also interesting information about Connecticut.
Here you can see who that"Connecticut has beautiful wooded hills, quiet lakes, and lovely small towns with white church steeples rising above green commons. Other parts of the state are densely settled and highly industrialized."




Culture of Connecticut


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcR8TjkvCQI&feature=related
it is a short film about museum of History


http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2688&Q=322362
here you can read some interesting facts about Connecticut
The most interesting for me was that fact "Connecticut has 57 pumpout and dump stations for boaters to use to protect Long Island Sound's water quality.