Every Lake
Connecticut
A tidy rectangle with a notch, split down the middle by the river that named it.
Connecticut in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Connecticut.
About Connecticut
Connecticut is a near-rectangle with the Southwick Jog notched out of its northern line — a colonial survey error the two states finally agreed to live with. Long Island Sound gives the south edge its bays and river mouths, and the Connecticut River runs straight down the center in a broad valley of old farm towns before bending east to Old Saybrook. The Litchfield Hills and the Berkshire foothills rise in the northwest, the eastern uplands roll toward Rhode Island. Eight county lines still divide the board, kept as map geography since the county governments were abolished in 1960.
Connecticut ratified on January 9, 1788, fifth of the thirteen. Hartford has been a seat of government since the Fundamental Orders of 1639 and became the sole capital in 1875, ending two centuries of alternating sessions with New Haven. The board reads as a corridor: I-95 hugs the shoreline through New Haven, New London and Mystic, I-91 runs up the river valley to Springfield, and the Merritt Parkway curves through the southwest under its own stone bridges, each one designed differently.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 9 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
