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Farm River State Park

Farm River State Park is a privately operated, publicly owned recreation area on the western shore of the Farm River estuary in the town of East Haven, Connecticut. Public access to the 62-acre state park is limited and boating is restricted to those with passes obtained from Quinnipiac University, which manages the park for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Park activities include nature trail hiking, bird watching, and fishing. Ecology The park sits along the estuarine portion of the Farm River, which begins as a freshwater stream 16 miles (26 km) to the north in North Branford. The park contains marshland, tidal wetlands and a rocky shore that hosts bird species including ducks, gulls, snowy egrets, and blue herons. The unique geology of the uplands and bedrock outcrops provide landscape diversity and allow tidal marsh flooding to separate the park into upper and lower portions. History To create the park, the State of Connecticut, in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Trust for Public Lands, purchased a 57-acre parcel and another 15-acre parcel for $1.75 million in 1998. The land was obtained and designated a state park before luxury condominiums were constructed along the river. In 2006, Quinnipiac University installed a wireless network communication system to be used for educational purposes. A trail from the D.C. Moore School through Farm River State Park was cleared by Boy Scout Troop 401 in 2012, as part of the development of the Shoreline Greenway. Activities and amenities Park activities include hiking, fishing, bird watching, and car-top boating. The boat launch and docks are managed by a private concessionaire contracted by the state. Trails lead to scenic vistas and a self-guided nature trail. The main access points are off Connecticut Route 142 (Short Beach Road) and via an electrically controlled gate off Mansfield Grove Road. Access to the park is restricted to trailheads with limited parking. References External links Farm River State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Farm River State Park Map Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Farmington High School (Connecticut)

Farmington High School is a public high school in Farmington, Connecticut, that serves grades 9-12. In June 2017, a town vote to build a new school occurred. Advocates for the new building highlighted the severe aging and inadequacy of the existing facilities. Due to budgetary concerns, the vote did not pass. In June 2021, a subsequent referendum was held, with the proposed renovation estimated to cost $135.6 million; this referendum passed by a wide margin. Construction of the new school began in summer of 2022 and completed in August 2024. Athletics CIAC State Championships Notable alumni Tim Abromaitis, professional basketball player (Notre Dame) Nick Bonino, professional hockey player Michael Gladis actor (Mad Men) William H. Hatch, politician Shawn Haviland, professional baseball player Dick McAuliffe, professional baseball player Erin Pac, Olympic bobsledder Pawel Szajda, actor Terry Wooden, former linebacker in the NFL References External links Official website
Farwell Barn

The Farwell Barn, also known as Jacobson Barn or Jacobson's Barn, is a historic property on Horsebarn Hill Road in Storrs, Connecticut, on the campus of the University of Connecticut. The property is also the site of the archaeological remains of the Farwell House. The barn "is a 19th-century post-and-beam framed clapboarded barn that was built as part of a family farm and then in 1911 was acquired by the Connecticut Agricultural College, the institution that became the University of Connecticut at Storrs." The corresponding house was burned in 1976. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Description and history The Jacobson Barn occupies a prominent position at the northern end of the University of Connecticut campus, at the northeast corner of Horsebarn Hill Road and Connecticut Route 195. It measures 62 by 42 feet (19 m × 13 m), and is covered by a gabled roof with the long axis in an east-west orientation and a ventilating cupola at its center. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, which appear to be nailed to original vertical board siding. The barn's main entrance is at the western end, with a paved drive leading from Horsebarn Hill Road to a stone ramp and large sliding door. The door is fashioned out of vertically oriented tongue-and-groove boards, and has a normal pedestrian door built into it. The stone ramp is composed of large granite slabs, which also serve as cover for an underground storage space. The barn was built about 1870, during the ownership of the farm by Isaac Farwell. The Farwell family had been farming in this area since the 18th century, and Isaac was primarily a dairy farmer. After his death, Isaac Jr. and Fidelia Farwell operated the farm, selling it to George Jacobson in 1908. Jacoboson sold the property to the Connecticut Agricultural College in 1911. The school added a sheep barn to the southeast of the structure in 1913–1915. The Farwell house burned down to its foundations in 1976, and today remain as an archaeological site. Archaeologists at the University of Connecticut have excavated this site through the Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST) program and have found various artifacts, including combs and coins. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Tolland County, Connecticut References http://www.mansfieldct.gov/filestorage/1904/5335/1912/20020311_minutes.pdf Archived February 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20070626211715/http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/crm/conn/ctosa/ctosa.html Town of Mansfield - Town Council Minutes, February 2002 Office of Connecticut State Archaeology Kids Are Scientists Too | KAST | UConn Summer Science Day Camps for Kids Archives & Special Collection, University of Connecticut Libraries
Fayerweather Island

Fayerweather Island is a 7+1⁄2-acre land mass in Long Island Sound. Part of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, it is located south of the city's Seaside Park. The island contains a resurgent coastal forest composed primarily of white oak (Quercus alba) and Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) growth. It is home to the Black Rock Harbor Light, located on the south of the island, and first built in 1808. Physical description Elevation: ~3 feet (0.91 m). NOAA maintains weather station FWIC3 on the island. History 1807: Island purchased from David Fayerweather by the US Government. 1823: The present lighthouse was built, with four-foot-thick rubble walls faced with brownstone ashlar, to replace an earlier wooden structure that had been washed away in a hurricane. A keeper's house was constructed at the same time. 1837–38: A granite seawall—called "the fortification"—was constructed to help maintain the integrity of the island and lighthouse station. It was extended across what had become little more than a sandbar to connect with a larger portion of Fayerweather Island in 1849. 1844: Lantern of lighthouse reconstructed 1873: Keeper's house rebuilt, with self-sufficient cistern water supply. 1894: Dredging project completed, providing 6-foot-deep (1.8 m) channel around the island into the harbor at low tide. Seawall repaired & improved. 1911: Island acquired by the city of Bridgeport. Reconstruction of the seawall is begun that would connect the island to the western end of Seaside Park. 1919: New seawall and roadway completed that connected the upper portion of Fayerweather Island (now the western end of the park mainland) to the older portions of Seaside Park. 1933: Lighthouse decommissioned. 1977: Keeper's house destroyed by fire. 1986: A state-record 17 lb 14 oz weakfish was caught on the island. See also History of Bridgeport, Connecticut Notes External links
Île Fayerweather

L'île Fayerweather est une île située dans le détroit de Long Island au sud de Seaside Park (Connecticut) (en) . Elle fait partie de la ville de Bridgeport dans le Connecticut, États-Unis. L'île contient une forêt côtière renaissante composée principalement de chênes blancs (Quercus alba) et de genévrier de Virginie (Juniperus virginiana)[réf. nécessaire]. L'île a été achetée à David Fayerweather par le gouvernement américain. Il abrite le phare de Black Rock Harbor, construit en 1823. En 1837-1838 une digue de granit (appelée «la fortification») a été construite pour aider à maintenir l'intégrité de l'île et de la station de signalisation maritime. Il a été étendu sur ce qui était devenu un peu plus qu'un banc de sable pour se connecter à une plus grande partie de l'île Fayerweather en 1849[réf. nécessaire]. En 1911 l'île acquise par la ville de Bridgeport. La reconstruction de la digue est commencée et reliera l'île à l'extrémité ouest de Seaside Park. En 1919 la nouvelle digue et la route sont achevées et relient la partie supérieure de l'île Fayerweather (maintenant l'extrémité ouest de la partie continentale du parc) aux parties plus anciennes de Seaside Park[réf. nécessaire]. Le phare est désactivé en 1933 mais une station météorologique de la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) y est toujours en service[réf. nécessaire]. Voir aussi Références (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Fayerweather Island » (voir la liste des auteurs). Liens externes Ressource relative à la géographie : Geographic Names Information System Portail du Connecticut Portail des îles
Institución Correccional Federal, Danbury

Institución Correccional Federal, Danbury (Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury o FCI Danbury) es una prisión federal en Danbury, Connecticut, Estados Unidos. Como parte de la Agencia Federal de Prisiones (BOP por sus siglas en inglés), se abrió en agosto de 1940.​ Originalmente tenía prisioneros y prisioneras. En 1993 se convirtió en una prisión solamente para las mujeres.​ En agosto de 2013 la prisión principal pasó a ser solo para hombres, y la BOP trasladó las mujeres a la Institución Correccional Federal, Aliceville en Alabama.​ Prisioneros notables Mujeres: Piper Kerman, autora de Orange Is the New Black: Crónica de mi año en una prisión federal de mujeres​ - se convirtió en la base de la serie de televisión de Netflix, Orange Is the New Black Notas Enlaces externos FCI Danbury (en inglés) Guía de Admisión y Orientación en español Reglamento de visitas en español Arons, Anna, Katherine Culver, Emma Kaufman, Jennifer Yun, Hope Metcalf, Megan Quattlebaum, and Judith Resnik. "Dislocation and Relocation: Women in the Federal Prison System and Repurposing FCI Danbury for Men." Yale Law School, Arthur Liman Public Interest Program. September 2014. (en inglés)
Fiondella Field

Fiondella Field is a college baseball stadium in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on the campus of the University of Hartford. It is home to the Hartford Hawks, of the Conference of New England. The stadium hosted its first game on March 29, 2006. It has a capacity of 1,000. History Prior to the field's construction, Hartford's baseball program played at several venues in central Connecticut following its move off campus in the mid-1980s. These venues included New Britain's Beehive Field, Bristol's Muzzy Field, East Hartford's Ray McKenna Field, and Simsbury's Memorial Field. Ground was broken on the venue in April 2005. The venue opened on March 29, 2006, and Hartford's first game there was against Massachusetts. Hartford won the game, 6–2. Renaming Through the 2009 season, the field was known as the Hartford Baseball Field. In a ceremony on October 4, 2009, the venue was renamed Fiondella Field, in honor of the Fiondella family, primarily businessman Robert Fiondella, because of his involvement in the Hartford community. High school baseball The West Hartford amateur baseball association sponsors the annual mayor's cup baseball game at Fiondella Field. It is the final game of season between rivals Conard High School and Hall High School. See also List of NCAA Division I baseball venues References External links Fiondella Field
First Church of Christ, Wethersfield

The First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is an American Colonial Era church located in the Old Wethersfield Historic District of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1635, and the cemetery dates from the 1600s, but the current Georgian-style, brick meetinghouse, with its distinctive white steeple, was built in 1761. The interior of the current meetinghouse was built as a transverse church, altered considerably in 1838 and 1882, but returned to the original layout in 1971–1973. Background According to a plaque at the tower entrance door, George Washington attended church here on May 20, 1781, during a conference with Count de Rochambeau at the nearby Joseph Webb House to plan the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War. In 1774, John Adams visited Silas Deane, Wethersfield merchant and envoy to France, and subsequently wrote in his diary: “We went up the steeple of Wethersfield meeting-house, from whence is the most grand and beautiful prospect in the world, at least that I ever saw.” The church, equipped with an Austin organ, hosted the first eighteen years of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival. This competition for young organists has been held annually since 1998 in the Hartford area, and was co-founded by First Church music minister David Spicer. The congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ from 1961 through 2004 when the congregation overwhelmingly voted to break away citing theological and social differences, including gay marriage. Gallery References External links First Church official website
First Congregational Church of Cheshire

The First Congregational Church of Cheshire is a historic church at 111 Church Drive in Cheshire, Connecticut. Built in 1827, it was designed by David Hoadley and is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Architecture and history The First Congregational Church is located in Cheshire's town center, on the west side of Connecticut Route 10 opposite the town hall. It is separated by CT 10 by a surviving element of the town green, now owned and managed by the church, and is accessed via Church Drive. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade has a projecting four-column temple front, with round fluted columns rising to Ionic capitals and a fully pedimented gable. Straddling the projecting and the main roof is a tower, with a square base section housing a clock, two octagonal stages (one of which houses an open belfry), and a conical steeple ending in a cross. Five other Congregational churches were built on essentially the same design in the Connecticut towns of Old Lyme (the 1816-17 Old Lyme Congregational Church), Milford (1823), Litchfield (the 1829 First Congregational Church of Litchfield), Southington (1830), and Guilford (the 1830 First Congregational Church of Guilford). All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows. The similarities suggest that some of the building elements may have been prefabricated. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References External links Church website
First Congregational Church of East Haven

The First Congregational Church of East Haven (also known as Old Stone Church) is a historic church at 251 Main Street in East Haven, Connecticut. It was built in 1772-74 by George Lancraft, a local builder, and is one of Connecticut's few surviving pre-Revolutionary churches. It is also one of New England's oldest stone churches, preceded principally by King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Description and history The First Congregational Church of East Haven occupies a prominent position at the eastern end of the town green in the center of East Haven. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, built out of red sandstone quarried in nearby Fair Haven, and mortared with a combination of historic lime mortar and more recent cement mortar. A square tower rises from the west-facing main facade, with three levels of base surmounted by a clock stage, a wooden belfry with late Georgian features, and an octagonal steeple. Entrances are set in the bays flanking the tower. Windows are set in rectangular openings with stone sills and flared lintels, and there is a slightly projecting stringcourse between the floors. The interior is reflective of an 1850 renovation, in which the pulpit was moved from the long north wall to the east end. At that time, the main entrance was also relocated; it had originally been placed at the center of the long south wall, a traditional placement for colonial meeting houses. The church was built in 1772-74 by George Lancraft, a stonemason from Fair Haven. It was designed in part by Lancraft and by the congregation's building committee, which made alterations (including lengthening the building and adding the tower) while it was under construction. The church was looted of its silver during a British raid in the American Revolutionary War. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References External links Church website
First Congregational Church of Plainfield

The First Congregational Church of Plainfield is a historic Congregational church at 519 Norwich Road in Plainfield, Connecticut. It was built in 1816, for a congregation founded in 1705, to plans by noted early architect Ithiel Town, and is a relative rarity in the state as a Federal period stone church. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Architecture and history Plainfield's First Congregational Church is located on the north side of the town's main village, on the west side of Norwich Road (Connecticut Route 12) south of Cemetery Road. It is a 2+1⁄2-story stone structure, built out of locally quarried fieldstone. It has a projecting gable-front Doric temple front supported by four columns, and a multistage tower with steeple. The first stage of the tower is stone, and houses a clock with faces on three sides. The second stage is a wood-frame belfry, with louvered round-arch openings. The church was built in 1816, after a gale destroyed the previous colonial meeting house. It is a significant early work of Ithiel Town, a native of nearby Thompson who became a leading architect of the early 19th century. Its interior was subjected to significant alterations in the 1850s, and no longer reflect Town's design. In addition to its religious role, this building also hosted town meetings and other civic functions during the 19th century. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Connecticut References External links Church website
Fitch High School

Robert E. Fitch High School is a public high school located in Groton, Connecticut. History The original Fitch High School (now the former location of Fitch Middle School) was built in 1928 next to the Town Hall on Poquonock Road and was funded in part by the will of a local merchant, Charles Fitch, with the stipulation that it be named after his son - Robert E. Fitch. In the early 1950s, the district enrollment was larger than the school could handle, so the school district decided to split to a junior high and senior high system. In 1954, the school district built a new school, the current Robert E. Fitch Senior High School, in its current location at the top of Fort Hill Road. It was then renamed Robert E. Fitch Junior High School. Notable alumni and faculty Brian Anderson, Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" 1999 Amby Burfoot, runner Dave Campo, National Football League (NFL) head coach Jesse Hahn, Major League Baseball (MLB) player George Hall, Arena Football League linebacker Matt Harvey, 7th overall pick in 2010 MLB draft to New York Mets John J. Kelley, runner and cross country coach at the school Fran Mainella, National Park Service Director, 2001–2006 Paul Menhart, former Major League Baseball pitcher Karl Procaccini, associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Kevin Wildes, broadcaster First Things First (talk show) Samantha Urbani, singer songwriter Dan Gaiewski, Connecticut State Representative Notes External links Official website
Flatbush Avenue station (Connecticut)

Flatbush Avenue is a bus rapid transit station on the CTfastrak line, located near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and New Park Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015. The station consists of one island platform to the side of the busway, with passing lanes to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station. A CTrail Hartford Line commuter rail platform was planned to open in 2022 under the name West Hartford. Railroad history The New York and New England Railroad (and predecessor Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad) operated a station named Charter Oak Park at Oakwood Street slightly to the south, serving the Charter Oak Park racing track and the Luna Park recreation area. It opened with the track in 1874, was rebuilt in 1900, and likely closed with the racetrack in 1940. The New Haven Railroad had an adjacent Oakwood station on its parallel Springfield Line; it opened in 1874 and was closed in the late 1890s after the New Haven's purchase of the NY&NE rendered it redundant. Future plans The Hartford Line commuter rail service between New Haven, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts via Hartford commenced on June 16, 2018. It initially connects to CTfastrak at Union Station. Hartford Line stations adjacent to the CTfastrak stops at West Hartford (Flatbush Avenue) and Newington Junction are planned to open later. The 2012 environmental assessment for the Hartford Line included preliminary plans for four infill stations including West Hartford and Newington Junction; although they were not yet funded, this would allow future planning and construction to be expedited. On January 12, 2015, the state announced that $5.75 million in funding would be made available for environmental mitigation and design at ten Hartford Line and New Haven Line stations, including design funding for Hartford Line platforms at West Hartford and Newington Junction. In February 2017, the state announced an additional $50 million in funds, including money to complete design of West Hartford station. Design was to be completed by 2020. The state aimed to construct all infill stations on the line by 2022. As of January 2025, the West Hartford station is in design and estimated to cost $70.5 million to build. References External links Media related to Flatbush Avenue station (Connecticut) at Wikimedia Commons