State Symbols
This famous tree is Connecticut's official State Tree.
What is the Charter Oak Tree?
This is the official year that the Connecticut Colony was formed.
What is 1636?
He is honored as the official State Hero of Connecticut.
Who is Nathan Hale?
This is the official year that the Connecticut Colony was formed
What is 1636?
Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield are known by this historical nickname.
What are the three mother towns of Connecticut?
This is the total number of counties found in the state of Connecticut
What is 8?
He was the leader who brought Puritan English settlers all the way from Massachusetts to start a new home in Hartford.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
She is honored as the official State Heroine of Connecticut.
Who is Prudence Crandall?
He was the leader who brought Puritan English settlers all the way from Massachusetts to start a new home in Hartford.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This is the English meaning of Connecticut's motto, "Qui Transtulit Sustinet".
What is "He who transplanted, still sustains"?
This delicious, shell-dwelling creature is the official State Shellfish.
What is the Eastern Oyster?
These were the two most powerful Native American tribes living in Connecticut.
Who are the Pequots and the Mohegans?
The Dutch explorer who was the very first European to explore the Connecticut River and local coastlines in 1614.
Who is Adriaen Block?
These were the two most powerful Native American tribes living in Connecticut.
Who are the Pequots and the Mohegans?
This is what the three grapevines on the official State Seal represent.
What are the three mother towns (Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield)?
This beautiful red gemstone is the official State Mineral.
What is the Garnet?
This tribe decided to side with the English colonists during the Pequot War.
Who are the Mohegans?
This historic submarine is honored as the official Connecticut State Ship
What is the USS Nautilus?
This tribe decided to side with the English colonists during the Pequot War.
Who are the Mohegans?
This battle of the Pequot War took place in this specific Connecticut town.
What is Southport, Connecticut?
While the American Robin is the state bird, this giant, insect was named the State Insect in 1989 because it helps Connecticut farmers by eating pests.
What is the European Praying Mantis?
Connecticut's three "Mother Towns"—Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield —were all built along the banks of this same body of water, which Adriaen Block explored in 1614 and is now the longest river in New England.
What is the Connecticut River?
When King James II tried to take away Connecticut’s right to govern itself in 1687, the colonists hid their official charter inside a giant oak tree. According to legend, they managed to steal the document during a dark, tense meeting by doing this trick to distract the King's governor.
What is blowing out all the candles to make the room pitch black?
Everyone knows Paul Revere, but Connecticut has its own Revolutionary hero! In 1777, this brave 16-year-old girl rode 40 miles through the night in a heavy rainstorm to warn American soldiers that British troops were burning down the town of Danbury, Connecticut.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
Connecticut is home to the USS Nautilus, the official state ship. This vessel changed history forever in 1954 because it was the world’s very first submarine to be powered by this type of futuristic, invisible energy.
What is Nuclear Power (or Atomic Energy)?