Have patience with me, please. As soon as I find
enough info, and finish correcting my other pages, I
will do this page!
The facts I want to include on these pages do not include statistics, size, etc. I was more interested in getting some unusual and interesting information to include here.
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The Charter Oak was a large tree that once stood in Hartford. It was used as a hiding pace for Connecticut's charter of self government in 1687. The charter was hid in the tree by Joseph Wadsworth to keep it from being seized by the British governor. The Charter Oak was blown down by a storm in 1856. There is a monument in the spot where the tree once stood.
America's first supersalesmen were Yankee peddlers from Connecticut. Many towns in the state still produce some of the products made in the early days of our nation. Waterbury is famous for its clocks and brassware, Meriden for it silverware, Willimantic for its thread, and Danbury for its hats.
Connecticut is where Linus Yale manufactured his lock, and Eli Whitney first started using mass production on the moveable parts of muskets. Mary Kies of South Kingly, is the first woman to receive a U.S. patent for a machine to weave silk and straw. The first atomic-powered submarine, The Nautilus, was launched at Groton Naval Base.
