CONNECTICUTConnecticut
The Constitution State. One state, one story: land, people, food, and the words locals really use.The Constitution State. Un estado, una historia: tierra, gente, comida y las palabras que la gente de ahí sí usa.
Say the state name, the capital, and the nickname out loud. Then tap Next.Di el nombre del estado, la capital y el apodo en voz alta. Luego toca Next.
Where is Connecticut?¿Dónde está Connecticut?
New England’s southwest corner. New York City is next door. Long Island Sound is the south window.Connecticut está en Estados Unidos. Estos son los vecinos que hay que memorizar.
Hartford, the capitalHartford, la capital
1 · About 121,000 people
Not the largest city. Insurance built the skyline. “Insurance Capital of the world” is the old slogan.Dato clave de Hartford.
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Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 at the 2020 census and was estimated at 124,006 in 2025. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area with 1.17 million residents in total. Founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States.
Hartford es la capital del estado estadounidense de Connecticut y del condado de Hartford, situado junto al río Connecticut en el centro del estado. Según el censo de 2010 tenía una población de 124 775 habs. Estas cifras sitúan a Hartford como la tercera ciudad más poblada de Connecticut tras Bridgeport y New Haven. Esta ciudad forma parte del Gran Hartford que tiene una población de 1 212 381 habs. según el censo de 2010, siendo el área metropolitana más grande del estado y la 45° de los Estados Unidos.Land: river, hills, soundLand: river, hills, sound
The long river
The Connecticut River splits the state and reaches Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook.Dato clave de la tierra de Connecticut.
Litchfield hills
Northwest uplands. Stone walls, lakes, the Appalachian Trail’s short CT walk.Dato clave de la tierra de Connecticut.
The coast
Marsh, harbor, island. Mystic and Stonington keep boats in the street view.Dato clave de la tierra de Connecticut.
Person 1 · Prudence CrandallPerson 1 · Prudence Crandall
1 · Canterbury, 1831
She opened a school for girls. Then she admitted Sarah Harris, a Black student.Dato clave de Prudence Crandall.
2 · The town turned
White families left. She reopened as a school for African American girls. The state passed a law to stop her.Dato clave de Prudence Crandall.
3 · State heroine
Arrest, trial, a mob. She left. Connecticut later named her state heroine (1995).Dato clave de Prudence Crandall.
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Prudence Crandall was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, which became the first known school for African American girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States led by a white woman. She was the sister of Reuben Crandall, the defendant in the Trial of Reuben Crandall. In 1832, when Crandall admitted Sarah Harris, a 20-year-old African American woman, to her school, she created what can be considered the first known integrated classroom in the United States.
Prudence Crandall (3 de septiembre de 1803 - 28 de enero de 1890), fue una maestra de escuela y activista estadounidense que presionó por el sufragio de las mujeres y los derechos de los afroamericanos en los Estados Unidos. Originalmente de Rhode Island, Crandall se educó como cuáquera en Canterbury, Connecticut, y se hizo conocida por establecer una academia para la educación de niñas y mujeres afroamericanas.Mystic SeaportMystic Seaport
- Mystic Seaport is a living museum of old sailing ships on the Connecticut coast.Mystic Seaport es un museo vivo de barcos de vela viejos en la costa de Connecticut.
- Say it in one line: Mystic Seaport is in Connecticut. Then say why people go there.Dilo en una línea: Mystic Seaport está en Connecticut. Luego di por qué va la gente ahí.
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Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre (7.7 ha) site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored. As of 2016, the museum received about 250,000 visitors each year.
Mystic Seaport es el lugar famoso de Connecticut. La gente va por su historia y su paisaje.The flagLa bandera
Arms
Three grapevines on a white shield. The colony as a transplant that still lives.Dato clave de la bandera de Connecticut.
The motto
Qui transtulit sustinet under the vines. He who transplanted still sustains.Dato clave de la bandera de Connecticut.
Blue field
Adopted in this form in the late 1800s. A quiet flag. No bear, no sun.Dato clave de la bandera de Connecticut.
Food: three dishesComida: tres platos
New Haven apizza
Thin, charred, not very cheesy. White clam pie if you are brave.Un plato para probar en Connecticut. Di el nombre en voz alta: New Haven apizza. ¿Lo probarías?
Steamed cheeseburger
Central CT (Middletown). Cheese melted in a box, not on a grill. Weird, local, real.Un plato para probar en Connecticut. Di el nombre en voz alta: Steamed cheeseburger. ¿Lo probarías?
Lobster roll (Sound style)
Warm butter or cold mayo, depending on the dock. Fight politely.Un plato para probar en Connecticut. Di el nombre en voz alta: Lobster roll (Sound style). ¿Lo probarías?
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New Haven-style pizza is a thin-crust, coal-fired Neapolitan pizza which is common in and around New Haven, Connecticut. Locally known as apizza (; from Neapolitan 'a pizza [a ˈpittsə], lit. 'the pizza'), it originated in 1925 at the Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and is now served in many other pizza restaurants in the area, most notably Sally's Apizza and Modern Apizza. This pizza style has been favorably regarded by national critics. What makes New Haven-style pizza distinct is its thin, often oblong crust, characteristic charring, chewy texture, and limited use of melting cheeses.
La comida típica de Connecticut mezcla su historia y su campo. Di qué plato probarías primero.Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in Hartford, pushed the US toward ending slavery.Su novela de 1852 La cabaña del tío Tom, escrita en Hartford, empujó a EE. UU. a terminar la esclavitud.
- Say it in one line: Harriet Beecher Stowe is from Connecticut. Then say what they are famous for.Dilo en una línea: Harriet Beecher Stowe es de Connecticut. Luego di por qué es famoso o famosa.
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play and was influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote over 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, nacida Harriet Elisabeth Beecher (Litchfield, Connecticut, 14 de junio de 1811-Hartford, 1 de julio de 1896), fue una escritora estadounidense abolicionista. Publicó múltiples novelas y artículos periodísticos. La más famosa de sus obras es La cabaña del tío Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin), la cual narra una historia de la vida en esclavitud y fue publicada originalmente entre 1851 y 1852, en forma seriada, en un órgano periodístico abolicionista, The National Era, editado por Gamaliel Bailey.The charter in the oakThe charter in the oak
1 · Andros wants the charter
The English governor demanded Connecticut’s 1662 royal charter. The candles went out. The document vanished.Dato clave de The charter in the oak.
2 · The oak
Story: Captain Wadsworth hid it in a white oak in Hartford. The Charter Oak became a state emblem. The tree fell in 1856.Dato clave de The charter in the oak.
3 · Still on the quarter
A scion oak grows at the site. The tale is half folklore, half stubborn local government.Dato clave de The charter in the oak.
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Mount Frissell is a 2,454-foot (748 m) mountain in the Taconic Range of the Northeastern United States. It is notable for featuring both a tripoint of the borders of southwest Massachusetts, northwest Connecticut, and eastern New York state, and the high point of Connecticut on its south slope. Frissell's summit and the majority of its slopes are within Massachusetts' Mount Washington State Forest. Its southern slopes are in Salisbury, Connecticut.
El punto más alto de Connecticut es Mount Frissell south slope. Compara su altura con un edificio o cerro que conoces.