Redding is rural compared to the towns along Connecticut's Gold Coast.

Although Connecticut is a wealthy state by most measures, the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is striking, with several of Connecticut's cities ranking among the nation's poorest and most dangerous.

WestConn started as a teachers ' college, training the primary and secondary school educators for Connecticut's Fairfield County and surrounding areas.

Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop.

Despite Connecticut's relatively small size, it features wide regional variations in its landscape ; for example, in the northwestern Litchfield Hills, it features rolling mountains and horse farms, whereas in the southeastern New London County, it features beaches and maritime activities.

A relatively small community on Connecticut's " Gold Coast ", the population was 20, 732 at the 2010 census.

In 1981, despite its vast holdings of vintage railroad stock, Steamtown had only 17, 000 visitors, while Connecticut's Essex Valley Railroad, which ran two small engines, had 139, 000 visitors.

Trumbull, a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut in the New England region of the United States, is bordered by the towns of Monroe, Shelton, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield and Easton along Connecticut's Gold Coast.

Yankee Gas is Connecticut's largest natural gas distribution company, delivering natural gas to approximately 200, 000 customers in approximately 71 cities and towns.

The mountain is located within the towns of Mount Washington, Massachusetts and Salisbury, Connecticut ; much of it has been conserved as part of Massachusetts ' Mount Washington State Forest and Connecticut's Mount Riga Forest Preserve.

The area from there to the current state border was given to New York as part of the OBLONG, EQUIVALENCY or Connecticut's Panhandle agreement.

He was a Connecticut state senator in the fourth district, 1830 – 32, a member of the Connecticut state house of representatives, 1836 – 39, 1845, and 1849 – 51, Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1836, 1839, and 1845, United States Representative from Connecticut's second district, 1840-43.

Connecticut's other three state universities are Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, and Western Connecticut State University.

Weicker's critics are quick to blame his implementation of the state income tax for Connecticut's loss of one congressional district as a result of the 2000 census ( based on the theory that the tax increased the rate of people leaving the state ).

Information about the repeal of Connecticut's Capital Gains Tax and Dividend and Interest Income Tax when the state income tax became law is available.

During Connecticut's budget crisis of 2002, the State of Connecticut sold off land acquired for numerous planned expressways throughout the state, including land set aside for extending the Oak Street Connector.

He was a Connecticut state senator in the fourth district, 1830 – 32, a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1836 – 39, 1845, and 1849 – 51 ; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1836, 1839, and 1845 ; US Representative from Connecticut's second district, 1840-43.

Springfield lies only 24 miles north of Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut's state capital.

After a decade of service, with Shore Line East established as part of Connecticut's transportation system, the state began to upgrade the service.

On July 9, 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.

He is Connecticut's state Composer laureate.

As Governor, he created the state Bureau of Labor Statistics, and he pushed for compulsory education to the age of 16 for Connecticut's children.

In 1966, during what was otherwise a Democratic sweep of the state, he was elected on the Republican Party ticket to serve as Congressman for Connecticut's 6th congressional district.

In January 1976, Ms. Lortel was honored by the state of Connecticut's Governor, Ella Grasso, for her efforts to promote the work of women playwrights on behalf of the United Nations ' International Women's Year.

The motto has been re-used for the name of Connecticut's SustiNet program to provide health care to state residents.

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

As is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is now no county government, and no county seat.

Thus, as is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is no county government, and no county seat.

As is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is no county government and no county seat.

Connecticut's independent legislature, in its January session of 1784, made New London one of the first two cities ( along with New Haven ) brought from de facto to formalized incorporations.

It is Connecticut's only agricultural historic district and is characterized by modestly scaled 18th and 19th century farmhouses, built in the Georgian and Greek Revival styles, together with accompanying agricultural outbuildings, farm fields, and fruit orchards.

Dwight was the leader of the evangelical New Divinity faction of Congregationalism — a group closely identified with Connecticut's emerging commercial elite.

* Manhattan south of Harlem ( he placed Harlem, and by extension the Manhattan neighborhoods to its north, clearly within The Foundry ), along with Connecticut's Fairfield County.

It is Connecticut's busiest commercial airport with 350 daily operations, and the second-busiest airport in New England after Boston's Logan International Airport.

An $ 11 million project was begun with support from teams of the Connecticut Department of Transportation and Connecticut's Economic and Community Development.

A few days after, the heat moved to the east, with temperatures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reaching and in Danbury, Connecticut, which is Connecticut's highest recorded temperature.

On May 12, Allen sent the prisoners to Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull with a note saying " I make you a present of a Major, a Captain, and two Lieutenants of the regular Establishment of George the Third.

The American clock industry, with scores of companies located in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley, was producing millions of clocks, earning the region the nickname, " Switzerland of America ".

Okafor graduated as Connecticut's leader in blocked shots with 441.

Born in Bronxville, New York, Pritchard arrived at King Features after work as a reporter at The Record-Journal ( Meriden, Connecticut ), as feature writer with The Hartford Times, as editor-publisher of Connecticut's weekly Wethersfield Post and as executive editor of The Manchester Journal Inquirer in Connecticut.

In April 2005, on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, she called Connecticut's resistance to the No Child Left Behind Act the " soft bigotry of low expectations.

" In 1640, Springfield was officially renamed after Pynchon's home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England — due to Pynchon's grace following a dispute with Hartford, Connecticut's Captain John Mason over, essentially, whether to treat local natives as friends or enemies.

As noted above, after disagreements with Captain John Mason and later Thomas Hooker about how to treat the native population ( Pynchon was a man of peace and Springfield's natives were friendly, whereas Hartford's natives were warlike and thus Connecticut's settlers chose to treat them as enemies rather than friends.

Inside, high ceilings and large windows offer magnificent views of the course and Connecticut's seasonal foliage, with a large dining room overlooking the third and fourth holes serving as the building's center.

Yale-New Haven Hospital ( abbreviated YNHH ), Connecticut's largest hospital with 1, 541 beds, is located in New Haven, Connecticut.

He was born on September 8, 1837 in Owego, New York, into a family with deep New England roots that trace back to Thomas Welles ( 1590 – 1659 ), who arrived in Massachusetts in 1635 and was the only man in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary ; John Deming, ( 1615 – 1705 ) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat ( 1584 – 1669 ) an early New England settler, Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature and also a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.