Creating Connecticut Quotes

“Shipbuilding, too, once flourished along the Connecticut. (Deeperdraft vessels had to be ox-hauled over the Saybrook bar.) During the age of sail, the state’s then-abundant forests attracted shipwrights up and down the river. Most of what they constructed were the small, fast coastal vessels that plied the West Indian trade, taking food, barrel staves, and horses to be exchanged in the Caribbean for sugar, molasses, and slaves.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“Of Connecticut’s 169 mostly small, mostly early towns, 144 of them still have fewer than twenty-five thousand residents.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“and with the observance of Connecticut Sabbath the next morning (in which many churches conducted services using historical liturgies),”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“The Ku Klux Klan, which admitted roughly 75,000 members—almost 15 percent of the native-born whites in the state—between 1921 and 1925, held anti-Catholic rallies with white robes and burning crosses throughout the state. One such rally in Manchester, Connecticut, attracted nearly ten thousand people, another in Branford nearly fifteen thousand.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“And the Catholic Church in Connecticut was both large and powerful. By the state’s three hundredth anniversary in 1935, Connecticut had well over a half-million Catholics served by 292 churches, 39 religious communities, 4 hospitals, 100 parochial schools, 3 colleges, and 4 seminaries. This was a force to be reckoned with, and for some, to be feared.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“Connecticut was leading America’s explosive industrial expansion. The third smallest of the fifty states, Connecticut ranked eleventh in manufacturing in 1900. It produced 79 percent of America’s brass and copper goods, 76 percent of its ammunition, 64 percent of all clocks, and 46 percent of all hardware. It was a major producer of bicycles, automobiles, typewriters, fabrics, rifles, and rubber goods of all kind. The demand for new consumer products was insatiable, as was the demand for new factories and workers. Ireland alone could not provide nearly enough workers, so migrants from Italy, Russia, Germany, Canada, Poland, and Sweden had helped create a Connecticut in which, by 1900, immigrants and their children outnumbered the original Yankee stock.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“Connecticut was leading America’s explosive industrial expansion. The third smallest of the fifty states, Connecticut ranked eleventh in manufacturing in 1900. It produced 79 percent of America’s brass and copper goods, 76 percent of its ammunition, 64 percent of all clocks, and 46 percent of all hardware.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State

“Between 1730 and 1760, Connecticut’s population more than tripled, from 38,000 in 1730 to 70,000 in 1749, increasing to over 130,000 by 1760. On the eve of the American Revolution in 1774, it was close to 200,000. Town populations began to outstrip the local agricultural capacity. The abundant 150 acres of land granted to the average first comer, was soon whittled down by inheritance divisions to just enough land to get by, and then not even that. In the 1730s, the voracious demand for more land was satisfied by the sale of three hundred thousand acres in the northwest Connecticut hills, but by 1750 the last of the colony’s public lands were gone. Meanwhile, in the Land of Steady Habits, no habit was steadier than regularly producing children, so the need for additional farm land for rising generations became a Connecticut constant.”
― Walter W. Woodward, Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State