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 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.

The Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation is a land base held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) in Ledyard, Connecticut, in New London County, in the Norwich-New London metro area, and on the Pequot River, now known as the Thames River.

It is located at the mouth of the Thames River ( pronounced as to rhyme with ' James ', unlike the river of the same spelling in London, the capital of England, which is pronounced to rhyme with ' hems ') in New London County, southeastern Connecticut.

Lebanon was originally settled by the Mohegan Indians, an Algonquin-speaking tribe that inhabited the upper Thames Valley in eastern Connecticut.

Ledyard () is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Thames River.

Ledyard is situated north of Groton, and borders the east bank of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.

It was voted to create the boundary between the claims of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut at the Thames River.

* The first American collegiate rowing club is established at Yale University on the Thames River ( Connecticut )

It is held annually in June on the Thames river in eastern Connecticut.

The Thames River, seen from the waterfront in New London, Connecticut

The Thames River (, not *), not to be confused with the River Thames, is a short river and tidal estuary in the U. S. state of Connecticut.

Uncas was born near the Thames River in present-day Connecticut, the son of the Mohegan sachem Owaneco.

It would take the Pequot more than three and a half centuries to regain political and economic power in their traditional homeland region along the Pequot ( present-day Thames ) and Mystic rivers in what is now southeastern Connecticut.

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Mitchell College is a liberal arts college located on the banks of the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut, USA.

* July 26-During United States Navy experiments with the operation of seaplanes from a submarine equipped with an aircraft hangar, the submarine carries out for the first time a full cycle of surfacing, removing the disassembled seaplane from its hangar, assembling it, launching it, retrieving it, disassembling it, stowing in its hangar, and submerging, on the Thames River at New London, Connecticut.

In 1793, Abraham Canfield a United Empire Loyalist from Connecticut, settled in the " Township of Oxford on the Thames ".

The Shetucket River is a tributary of the Thames River, long, in eastern Connecticut in the United States.

Groton is a town located on the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

A hundred years before the town was established, the Nehantic ( Native American ) Indians were settled in Groton, Connecticut between the Thames and Pawcatuck Rivers.

Although the raid was a success, the Connecticut militia stubbornly resisted British attempts to capture Fort Griswold, across the Thames River in Groton.

With its history dating back to 1655, Groton, Connecticut was originally a part of New London, its larger counterpart on the other side of the Thames River on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.

Since 1864 this race has been held annually and since 1878, with few exceptions, it has been raced on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut.