CONNECTICUT

Connecticut is nicknamed the Nutmeg State because its early inhabitants were known for their ingenuity and ability to make wooden nutmegs.

Louis Lassen invented the hamburger sandwich in Connecticut around 1900.

Connecticut was the first state to impose speed limits in 1901.

New Haven, Connecticut published the first phone book in the United States.

Connecticut is home to the oldest public library in the country.

The Hartford Courant was first published in 1764.

The famous American cable sports channel ESPN was founded in Bristol, Connecticut in 1979.

Connecticut was home to Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Noah Webster.

Connecticut has a large Italian-American population, but also has communities of Puerto Rican, Portuguese, Jamaican, Indian, Polish, and Chinese people.

Hartford has been the capital of Connecticut since 1875.