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 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.

Additionally, Route 183 cuts through the southwest corner of town, crossing into Connecticut to become Connecticut Highway 183.

The Beacon Hill was discontinued in 1981 due to funding cuts, ending commuter service in Connecticut east of New Haven.

Its founders were often away as well ; in the middle of harvesting, they left for a lecture tour through Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, and New Haven, Connecticut.

In 1848, the New York and New Haven Railroad Line was completed through Connecticut, providing a direct, faster rail connection from New York City to Boston.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

* August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

This service was superseded in 1849 by the land route through Connecticut that was to become part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

Significant through roads in Kensington include Maryland Routes 185 ( Connecticut Avenue ), 193 ( University Boulevard West ), and 547 ( Knowles Avenue ).

By contrast, in 2005, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation of Lantern Hill, North Stonington, Connecticut, lost their bid for federal recognition through BIA, following a challenge by the State of Connecticut.

In 1982 through the merger of the Insurance Company of North America ( INA ) founded in 1792 and Connecticut General ( CG ) founded in 1865 came together to become CIGNA.

** The Norwalk River running through southwestern Connecticut

The Upper Post Road roughly corresponds to the alignment of U. S. Route 5 from New Haven, Connecticut, to Hartford ; Connecticut Route 159 from Hartford to Springfield, Massachusetts ; U. S. Route 20 from Springfield to Warren, Massachusetts ( via Route 67 ); Massachusetts Route 9 from Warren through Worcester to Shrewsbury ; and U. S. Route 20 from Shrewsbury to Boston.

The WCSU Archives ' collection is searchable through the use of the CAO ( Connecticut Archives Online ) or through CONSULS.

The trail passes through the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

The southern border of the former Connecticut Western Reserve passes through the southern part of the county, leading to jogs in the east and west borders of the county.

She sold property that had been left to her in Connecticut, and went with a friend, Grace Channing, to Pasadena where the cure of her depression can be seen through the transformation of her intellectual life.

* Connecticut Friends School, a Quaker school, kindergarten through eighth grade

Connecticut Transit operates several bus routes through the neighborhood, such as the 50 and 52, which run on Blue Hills Avenue, the 56 and 58, which run up on Albany Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue, the 74, which runs through Westbrook Village on its way to Copaco Shopping Center via Granby Street, and the 76, which runs on Cornwall Street towards Bowles Park.

In June 1781, the French troops under Rochambeau's command left Farmington and marched 13 miles to their eighth camp through Connecticut, near Asa Barnes Tavern in the Marion section of Southington, now the Marion Historic District ( Cheshire and Southington, Connecticut ).

* A rail line runs parallel to the Connecticut River through Windsor, with one stop for Amtrak trains in Windsor center.

In 1986, Iroquois Gas Transmission System sought permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct a long natural gas pipeline through New York and Connecticut.