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Candlewood Lake is a manmade lake located in Fairfield and Litchfield counties of Western Connecticut, in the northeastern United States. At 8.4 square miles (22 km 2 ), it is the largest lake in Connecticut and the largest lake in the New York Metropolitan Area. [2] The lake is bordered by the city of Danbury, and the towns of Brookfield, New ...
The coast of Connecticut sits on Long Island Sound, which is an estuary. The state's access to the open Atlantic Ocean is both to the west (toward New York City) and to the east (toward the "race" near Rhode Island). Due to this unique geography, Long Island Sound and the Connecticut shoreline are relatively protected from high waves from ...
This is a list of islands of Connecticut. The list does not include named minor rock outcroppings, former islands that are now connected to the mainland by landfill, or false islands that are connected by thin slivers of land to the mainland.
Rye House (Litchfield, Connecticut) / 41.721306°N 73.279583°W / 41.721306; -73.279583. Rye House is a historic summer estate property at 122-132 Old Mount Tom Road in Litchfield, Connecticut. Developed in 1910 for a wealthy New York City widow, it is a prominent local example of Tudor Revival architecture, and a major example of the ...
Pleasure Beach (formerly known as Steeplechase Island), is a 71-acre (sometimes) island located in Long Island Sound, to the south of city's East End, and is connected by the Long Beach sandspit to Stratford, Connecticut. Great Marsh Island is a 14-acre island located near the mouth of Ash Creek in the Black Rock neighborhood. South Island (aka ...
The U.S. state of Connecticut is divided into 169 municipalities, including 19 cities, 149 towns and one borough, which are grouped into eight historical counties, as well as nine planning regions which serve as county equivalents . Towns traditionally have a town meeting form of government; under the Home Rule Act, however, towns are free to ...
City Point (formerly known as Oyster Point) is an area in what is now The Hill neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, located in the southwestern portion of the city. The City Point area was, when settled and through the 18th century, a relatively narrow peninsula extending south into New Haven Harbor , located where the West River ...
Church of the La Amistad freed slaves. / 41.063°N 73.5385°W / 41.063; -73.5385 ( First Presbyterian Church) / 41.4778°N 72.0778°W / 41.4778; -72.0778 ( Fort Shantok Archeological District) Mohegan settlement and home of the seventeenth century sachem Uncas .