On 16 April 2005, during the 2005 WNBA Draft, the San Antonio Silver Stars traded Dydek to the Connecticut Sun in exchange for the Sun's first-round draft pick, Katie Feenstra from Liberty University.

Mather represented a small institution of learning that had been founded as the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701, and it needed money for a new building in New Haven, Connecticut.

Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791, but by the 1830s rejected the new tone among abolitionists that emphasized Americans who tolerated slavery were themselves sinners.

Winthrop has used the election to the society to gain access to the king, who has granted him a new charter uniting the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven.

This ordinance accepted the abolishment of all claims to the land west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River by the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and the ordinance established Federal control over all of this land in the Northwest Territory — with the goal that several new states should be created there.

In a 1973 court case, a federal judge created one of the first mandated quotas when he ruled that half of the Bridgeport, Connecticut Police Department's new employees must be either black or Puerto Rican.

Deeds and G. Rentschler persuaded the board of Niles Bement Pond that their Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool subsidiary of Hartford, Connecticut, should provide the funding and location to build a new aircraft engine being developed by Rentschler, George J. Mead, and colleagues, all formerly of Wright Aeronautical.

In 1960, the Company moved its medical research laboratory operations to a new facility in Groton, Connecticut.

However, the Bears played their " home " schedule at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut that season while awaiting the completion of their new home field.

In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated.

In that time, the Big East has seen the emergence of new national players West Virginia rising to as high as No. 1 and was ranked in the Top 10 for three-straight years ( 2005, 2006, 2007 ) ( South Florida rising as high as No. 2, Cincinnati and Louisville both as high as No. 3, Rutgers as high as No. 7, Pittsburgh as high as No. 9, and Connecticut as high as No. 13 in BCS standings ).

From the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several new towns were incorporated in western Connecticut and added to Fairfield County, namely Danbury ( 1687 ), Ridgefield ( 1709 ), Newtown ( 1711 ), and New Fairfield ( 1740 ).

All of northwestern Connecticut was later constituted as a new county, Litchfield County, in 1751.

Between 1780 and 1807, several new towns were created at the boundaries between Litchfield County and other counties in Connecticut.

In 2000, Mount Holyoke was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut.

Because the Council had lost its day camp program at Camp Fairlee to an industrial development in Danbury, Connecticut, it was decided to develop the site for a new day camp program.

Washington is one of only two municipalities in Connecticut to base permissible residential density on the soils composition of land parcels, and it was one of the first Connecticut towns to adopt net-density subdivision regulations, which render wetlands, flood plains, and steep slopes ineligible for satisfying the minimum acreage requirements for creating new building lots.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, the population of the town and the land decreased as parts were annexed by the neighboring town of Woodbridge and the new town of Beacon Falls was incorporated into the general geography of Connecticut.

Because of the remote location of these settlements and the considerable distance to churches, the people petitioned the Connecticut General Court for a new parish in 1725.

* Museum of Connecticut Glass is a new museum focusing on glassmaking in the state.

Presently the Woodstock Board of Education is in the process of negotiating a new contract with the school, but negotiations have been at an impasse these last two years as the Woodstock Board of Education has been trying to get more financial control over Woodstock Academy, a school which is, as of 2009, is administered by itself with oversight by the state of Connecticut.

Test borings and surface samples during the 1928-1930 construction of Frank D. Comerford Dam, in the Connecticut River, provided new geologic information regarding de-glaciation of the White Mountains, and became the namesake of the " Comerford Suite ".

After purchasing the Hubbard Township property, Nehemiah Hubbard made his first sale of land to Samuel Tylee, a surveyor in Connecticut, and engaged him as his agent in this new territory.

The logo and stage design have been carried across to the new studio in Connecticut with only a few changes.

One of Mark Twain's novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut.

* New Haven, Connecticut, had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees ( including some large elms ) that gave New Haven the nickname " The Elm City ".

On January 28, 2003, it was announced that the Miracle would immediately move to Uncasville, Connecticut and change its nickname to the Sun ( in reference to the Mohegan Sun casino ).

A new team, the Connecticut Sun, joined the league in 2003 with a nickname and logo which were extremely reminiscent of the Miami Sol.

The new owners moved the team to Uncasville, Connecticut and changed the nickname to the Sun ( in reference to the tribe's Mohegan Sun casino.

According to Webster's New International Dictionary, 1993, a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a " Connecticuter ", although many prefer " Connecticutian " or the slightly shorter " Connecticite "; Despite Webster's ( West Hartford ) Connecticut roots, none of these are commonly used or even recognized by residents, who prefer the nickname " Nutmegger ", which is not a demonym, and more often no nickname or demonyn, simply stating, " I'm from Connecticut ".

" Seemingly never an official publishing title ," the Connecticut Historical Society noted, " the Quality Comics Group is a trademarked name ( presumably taking its name from Stamford's nickname of ' the Quality City ') encompassing Comic Favorites Inc., E. M. Arnold Publications, Smash Comics, and any other imprints owned by Arnold ".

Upon entering the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church and being ordained a priest, McLaughlin spent years as a high school teacher at Fairfield College Preparatory School, a Jesuit prep school in Connecticut, where his arrogant mannerisms earned him the nickname " Father God.

It has the features of a written constitution, and is considered by some as the first written Constitution in the Western tradition, and thus earned Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State.

Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, New York, Texas, and Virginia.

Though he evidently took pride in his nickname, his reputation for profanity also led to his being chastised by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Connecticut, in a letter to The New York Times.

Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the state of Connecticut.

The official nickname for Connecticut is " The Constitution State ", as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature ; however " The Nutmeg State " is an unofficial nickname for the state, hence the nickname " Nutmegger ".

Cartoonist Guy Gilchrist designed the team's logo as well as logos for the Connecticut Defenders, Binghamton Mets, and New Britain Rock Cats.

* 2008 – 2010: For home games, the Sun wore white with the word " Connecticut " printed vertically on the sides and the Sun logo text emblazoned on the chest.

The state of Connecticut frequently alludes to the New Haven in its modern transportation projects ; many Metro-North Railroad engines are painted in McGinnis-era livery, while the familiar " NH " logo has appeared on everything from station signs to passenger cars.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has painted its diesel commuter rail locomotives used on the non-electrified Danbury and Waterbury Metro North branches, as well as its Shore Line East operation, in the " McGinnis Scheme ", composed of white, black, and orange-red stripes with the iconic NH logo.

* The shape is used for signage for the National Trails System administered by the United States National Park Service, as well as the logo of Colorado School of Mines and the Connecticut Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

* Daniel Beard's sketches of an angel at the end of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court are based on the Elgin National Watch Company's logo.

Mosaic headquarters are located at 35 Melrose Pl, Stamford, Connecticut ( the Mosaic logo can be seen outside ), while the information bureau is located at the adjoining 425 Fairfield Avenue.