This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.

For example, groups regularly canoe down the Connecticut River.

A number of schools have been named after Albert, including Albertus Magnus High School in Bardonia, New York, Albertus Magnus Lyceum in River Forest, Illinois, and Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut.

Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, a major U. S. river that approximately bisects the state.

The Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given the state a strong maritime tradition, which continues today.

The Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound.

The most populous metropolitan region centered within the state lies in the Connecticut River Valley.

Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New London, then northward up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

* Captain Kidd Pirate's Treasure Buried in the Connecticut River

Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.

The Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business are both located at the end of Tuck Mall, west of the center of campus and near the Connecticut River.

Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

The summer term was formerly marked by Tubestock, an unofficial tradition in which the students used wooden rafts and inner tubes to float on the Connecticut River.

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

Allen spent much of the summer of 1774 writing a " pamphlet " entitled A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of New York Relative to Their Obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward of the Connecticut River.

Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

Hanover lies fully within the Connecticut River watershed.

Category: Populated places on the Connecticut River

Lincoln lies almost fully within the Merrimack River watershed, with the western edge of town in the Connecticut River watershed.

In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres ( 0. 5 km² ) of land along the Thames River to build a Naval Station.

* North East States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Camp Conner, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

* Édouard Manet at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 032. jpg | Edgar Degas, Woman in the Bath, 1886, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

* Kitagawa Utamaro at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

In 2002, Electric Boat conducted preservation work on the world's first nuclear powered craft, USS Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U. S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a museum.

* Katsushika Hokusai at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington Connecticut

A 19th-century cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut.

* Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 032. jpg | Woman in the Bath, 1886, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

* Edgar Degas at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

* Whistler at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Their efforts proved successful and the Danbury Museum and Historical Society received a grant from the State of Connecticut, relocated the structure, restored it, and opened it to the public in 2004.

Henry James introduced her to Theodate Pope Riddle, " one of her most fascinating clients " who owned the estate ' Hill-Stead ' ( 1913 )-now preserved as the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut.

* Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington Connecticut Official website ( Farrand-designed )

Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Connecticut.

The Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut was founded in 1991 and is located in East Lyme's original public library on Main Street.

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

It is home to Eastern Connecticut State University, as well as the Windham Textile and History Museum.

* The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum is located off Bridge Street in downtown Willimantic, Connecticut, on the original site of the Columbia Junction Freight Yard.

* Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut by John Frederick Kensett ( 1816 – 1872 ) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Twilight on the Sound, Darien, Connecticut, 1872, John Frederick Kensett ( 1816 – 1872 ) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Biologist Ellen Censky, of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, believes that the new iguanas had accidentally become caught on the trees and rafted two hundred miles across the ocean from Guadeloupe, where Green iguanas are an indigenous species.