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 Welcome to Connecticut

CONNECTICUT

Capital City: Hartford 
Nicknames: The Constitution State, the Nutmeg State
Population, 2005 estimate 3,510,297 residents

State?s Flag: On a field of azure blue is an ornamental white shield with three grapevines, each bearing three bunches of purple grapes. The states motto "He who Transplanted Sustains Us" is displayed on a white ribbon. The vines stand for the first settlements of English people who began to move from Massachusetts in the 1630's. These settlements were thought of as grapevines that had been transplanted.

The Dutch navigator, Adriaen Block, was the first European of record to explore the area, sailing up the Connecticut River in 1614. In 1633, Dutch colonists built a fort and trading post near present-day Hartford but soon lost control to English Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. English settlements established in the 1630s at Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford united in 1639 to form the Connecticut Colony under the Fundamental Orders, the first modern constitution.

Connecticut played a prominent role in the Revolutionary War, serving as the Continental Army's major supplier. Sometimes called the "Arsenal of the Nation", the state became one of the most industrialized in the nation.

Today, Connecticut factories produce weapons, sewing machines, jet engines, helicopters, motors, hardware and tools, cutlery, clocks, locks, silverware, and submarines. Hartford has the oldest U.S. newspaper still being published?the Hartford Courant, established 1764?and is the insurance capital of the nation.

Among the major points of interest are Yale University's Gallery of Fine Arts and Peabody Museum. Other famous museums include the P. T. Barnum, Winchester Gun, and American Clock and Watch. The town of Mystic features a re-created 19th-century New England seaport and the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium.

Fun Facts:

• The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.
• The USS Nautilus - the world's first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954.
• Connecticut is home to the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948).
• The first automobile law was passed by the state of CT in 1901. The speed limit was set at 12 miles per hour.
• PEZ? Candy is made in the city of Orange.
• Hartford has remained the capital city of Connecticut since 1875.

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