Happy National Connecticut Day! Today we observe the 5th state to join the union back on January 9, 1788.
This U.S. state in southern New England has a mix of coastal cities and rural areas dotted with small towns. Mystic is famed for its Seaport museum filled with centuries-old ships, and the beluga whale exhibits at Mystic Aquarium.
On Long Island Sound, the city of New Haven is known as the home of Yale University and its acclaimed Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Woven into the fabric of this state’s historic landscape, we find revolutionaries, innovators, and philosophers. This day recognizes the contributions of the fifth state to join the United States of America.
Like other colonies of the region, the Dutch first explored and founded trading posts in Connecticut.
In 1633, Puritans from Massachusetts established the first permanent settlement. From the outset, the industry established a means to prosperity in the colony.
Production of brass buttons and munitions placed the colony in a position to later supply the Revolutionary Army.
The colonial governor of Connecticut, American politician and statesman Jonathan Trumbull, was the only governor who supported independence.
All three Connecticut delegates to the first U.S. Continental Congress continued their representation of the colony at the Second Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence.
In fact, early American statesman, lawyer and Founding Father Roger Sherman is the only person to have signed the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution.
American lawyer, jurist, and statesman Eliphalet Dyer served the state of Connecticut as chief justice after the revolution.
American merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence Silas Deane served as a spy during the war and was for a time branded a traitor along with another Connecticut native, Benedict Arnold.
In 1789, after boarding the ship Boston Packet, Deane became ill and died penniless. However, decades later in 1840, his granddaughter would petition U.S. Congress to review his records. In doing so, his name would be cleared.
Connecticut’s small but full landscape holds countless revolutionary stories and adventures along New England’s National Scenic Trail. Through every season and every era, there’s something for every generation to enjoy!
Other nicknames for Connecticut include The Nutmeg State, The Provisions State, and The Land of Steady Habits.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Explore all the adventures Connecticut has to offer with National Day Calendar® and share your favorites by using #NationalConnecticutDay on social media.
Hidden Treasures
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – New Haven
Wild Bill’s Nostalgia Center – Middletown
The Grave of XYZ – Deep River
Mystic Seaport Museum – Mystic
Hogpen Hill Farms – Woodbury
Louis’ Lunch – New Haven
We also observe these famous figures born in Connecticut of whom are still recognized today for their past accomplishments, heroics, talents, ingenuity and innovations: Nathan Hale, Charles Goodyear, P. T. Barnum, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Colt, Frederick Law Olmsted, William Gillette, Edith Roosevelt, Katherine Hepburn, Norman Lear, George W. Bush and Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz.
Visit the link below to see those of notable birth who were not mentioned on the list above.
Here's to The Constitution State!
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