Connecticut

Connecticut rises from sea level (Long Island Sound) to 2,379’ (a point on the Mass. border on the south slope of Mt. Frissell).

Connecticut is 12.6% water.

In 1639, the New Haven Colony signed its own constitution – the 1^st U.S. document to say the government gets power from the people.

Conn. didn’t have a state constitution until 1818 but instead was governed by the General Assembly.

Connecticut Capitol

The capitol building in Hartford is the oldest in the U.S.  

Conn. has no county government, the only state other than R.I. like this.

In 1817, Conn. established the 1^st school for the deaf in the U.S.

Louis's Lunch in New Haven

Louis’s Lunch in New Haven served the 1^st hamburger in the U.S.

Conn. has no state fair.

Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum.

Conn. has an official state hero - Nathan Hale and state heroine - Prudence Crandall.  (No information on why he gets a statue and she gets a painting.)

Nathan Hale

Prudence Crandall