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Connecticut Facts and Trivia #3

Connecticut Facts and Trivia #3

Here are 10 more fun facts about CT:

  • In 1784, New Haven was incorporated as a city.
  • Danbury, An important military depot for the American Revolutionary armies was burned and looted in April 1777 by the British under Major General William Tryon.
  • The first blast furnace in Connecticut was built in Lakeville in 1762.
  • The Submarine Force Museum in Groton is home of the historic ship Nautilus (SSN 571). It is the official submarine museum of the United States Navy.
  • Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis.
  • Connecticut's most important crops are dairy, poultry, forest and nursery, tobacco, vegetables and fruit.
  • Connecticut's motto is Qui Transtulit Sustinet -- "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains".
  • In colonial New Haven cut pumpkins were used as guides for haircuts to ensure a round uniform style. Because of this fashion, these New Englanders were nicknamed "pumpkin-heads."
  • The name Middlebury derives from the central position the Town's meetinghouse occupies, six miles from three older neighbors, Waterbury, Southbury, and Woodbury.
  • The first human inhabitants of present-day Burlington were members of the Tunxis Tribe, who belonged to a confederation of Algonquian Indians. Legend holds they used the area as a hunting ground.

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