Pachaug River
The Pachaug River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river arising from the Pachaug State Forest at the Connecticut - Rhode Island border and draining into the Quinebaug River. It is crossed by the Ashland Mill Bridge in Griswold, Connecticut, a bridge which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. ;Hopeville Pond ''Hopeville Pond'' is a three-mile impoundment and widening of the Pachaug River in Hopeville Pond State Park in the ''"lost"'' village of Hopeville in the town of Griswold (much of the village was flooded by the creation of Hopeville Pond by a dam built to generate electricity). It has a public beach, kayak/canoe boat launch as well as camping and picnic facilities. ;Other Impoundments ''Ashland Pond'' in the borough of Jewett City is another impoundment of the Pachaug River, one closer to the merger with the Quinebaug River. ''Glasgo Pond'', ''Doanevi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hopeville Pond State Park
Hopeville Pond State Park is a public recreation area located on Hopeville Pond, an impoundment of the Pachaug River, in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. A portion of the state park occupies the site of the lost village of Hopeville. The park manager's house occupies Avery House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park offers fishing, swimming, camping, and trails for hiking and biking. It is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. History Before European colonization, the Mohegan people constructed stone weirs to harvest fish from the Pachaug River. The weirs directed water flow and fish to the center of the stream for easy capture in fishing baskets. ;Village In 1711, Stephen Gates was granted 14 acres of land lying within the modern state park's boundaries. Gates constructed a gristmill and sawmill, inundating the waterfall on the Pachaug River in the process. In 1818, Elizah Abel added a woole ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rivers Of Connecticut
Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound. The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name. By drainage basin (east to west) Block Island Sound * Pawcatuck River – easternmost CT river basin ** Shunock River **'' Ashaway River (Rhode Island)'' *** Green Fall River ** Wood River Long Island Sound * Mystic River ** Whitford Brook * Poquonock River *Thames River ** Oxoboxo River **Shetucket River *** Quinebaug River **** Pachaug River **** Blackwell Brook **** Moosup River ****Five Mile River ****Little River (Quinebaug River tributary) **** French River ***Little River (Shetucket River tributary) *** Merrick Brook **** Beaver Brook ***Natchaug River ****Mount Hope River *****Fenton River ****Bigelow Brook **** Still River (Natchaug Riv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Connecticut Placenames Of Native American Origin
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Historically the state is part of New England as well as the tri-state area with New York and New Jersey. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quinnetuket”, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the first m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rivers Of New London County, Connecticut
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Rivers Of Rhode Island
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Rivers in bold are considered major rivers either geographically or historically. By stream network All rivers eventually empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Rivers are listed in order from west to east along the coastline, with tributary rivers listed from downstream to upstream along main stem rivers. West of Narragansett Bay *''Thames River (Connecticut)'' **''Quinebaug River (Connecticut)'' *** Five Mile River **** Leeson Brook *** Moosup River **** Quaduck Brook * Pawcatuck River **Ashaway River ***Green Fall River ** Wood River *** Flat River ** Beaver River **Usquepaug River *** Queen River ** Chipuxet River Narragansett Bay *Saugatucket River *Pettaquamscutt River **Mattatuxet River * Annaquatucket River * Pine River * Potowomut River ** Hunt River *Maskerchugg River * Providence River ** Pawtuxet River *** Pocasset River ***North Branch Pawtuxet River ****Moswansicut River ****Ponaganset River ***South Branch Pawtuxet ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Rivers Of Connecticut
Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound. The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name. By drainage basin (east to west) Block Island Sound *Pawcatuck River – easternmost CT river basin **Shunock River **'' Ashaway River (Rhode Island)'' *** Green Fall River ** Wood River Long Island Sound * Mystic River ** Whitford Brook * Poquonock River *Thames River ** Oxoboxo River **Shetucket River *** Quinebaug River **** Pachaug River **** Blackwell Brook **** Moosup River ****Five Mile River ****Little River (Quinebaug River tributary) **** French River ***Little River (Shetucket River tributary) *** Merrick Brook **** Beaver Brook ***Natchaug River ****Mount Hope River *****Fenton River ****Bigelow Brook **** Still River (Natchaug River ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Broad Brook
Broad Brook is a neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 4,069. Geography The Broad Brook CDP occupies most of the east-central part of the town of East Windsor. It is bordered to the east by the town of Ellington in Tolland County, to the south by Chamberlain Road and Ketch Brook, to the west by the Scantic River, and to the north by Connecticut Route 140 and a portion of Broad Brook, the community's namesake waterway. The community is north of East Hartford and south of Thompsonville. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.58%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 3,469 people, 1,433 households, and 932 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,589 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.76% ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mohegan
The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut. Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. It is one of two federally recognized tribes in the state, the other being the Mashantucket Pequot, whose reservation is in Ledyard, Connecticut. There are also three state-recognized tribes: the Schaghticoke, Paugusett, and Eastern Pequot. At the time of European contact, the Mohegan and Pequot were a unified tribal entity living in the southeastern Connecticut region, but the Mohegan gradually became independent as the hegemonic Pequot lost control over their trading empire and tributary groups. The name Pequot was given to the Mohegan by other tribes throughout the northeast and was eventually adopted by themselves. In 1637, English Puritan colonists destroyed a princi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jewett City
Jewett City is a borough in New London County, Connecticut, in the town of Griswold. The population was 3,487 at the 2010 census. The borough was named for Eliezer Jewett, who founded a settlement there in 1771. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and , or 4.00%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 3,053 people, 1,337 households, and 743 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 1,464 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 92.07% White, 2.46% African American, 0.88% Native American, 1.44% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.11% from other races, and 1.97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.85% of the population. There were 1,337 households, out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.8% were married couples living together, 15.7% had a female householder ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Griswold, Connecticut
Griswold is a New England town, town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 11,402 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Griswold contains the borough of Jewett City, Connecticut, Jewett City and the villages of Doaneville, Kaalmanville, Rixtown, Glasgo, Hopeville, Nathanieltown, and Pachaug. History Long a fishing ground for the Mohegan people, the waterways attracted settlers who established ironworks, saw and corn mills, and other businesses. The town of Griswold was originally the northern part of the town of Preston, Connecticut, Preston. The North Society was established in 1716 at the request of residents who had been travelling to Preston to attend church. In the late 1700s, Eliezer Jewett opened several mills and an irrigation plant. His success led the area to be called Jewett City. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |