Dinosaurs once roamed the area around Dinosaur State Park, north of Middletown. You can still see some 500 tracks, dating from the Jurassic period, 200 million years ... View Details
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Westward expansion in the New World began along the meandering Connecticut River. Dutch explorer Adrian Block first explored the area in 1614, and in 1633 a trading post was set up in what is now Hartford. Within five years, throngs of restive Massachusetts Bay colonists had settled in this fertile valley. What followed was more than three centuries of shipbuilding, shad hauling, and river trading with ports as far away as the West Indies and the Mediterranean.... MoreLocation
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