23 Facts About Connecticut River

Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 miles through four states.

Connecticut River Valley is home to some of the northeastern United States' most productive farmland, as well as the Hartford–Springfield Knowledge Corridor, a metropolitan region of approximately two million people surrounding Springfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut.

Pequots dominated a territory in the southern region of the Connecticut River valley, stretching roughly from the river's mouth at Old Saybrook, Connecticut north to just below the Big Bend at Middletown.

The Pocomtuc village of Agawam eventually became Springfield, situated on the Bay Path where the Connecticut River meets the western Westfield River and eastern Chicopee River.

Connecticut River called it the "Fresh River" and claimed it for the Netherlands as the northeastern border of the New Netherland colony.

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Fourth English settlement along the Connecticut River came out of a 1635 scouting party commissioned by William Pynchon to find the most advantageous site for commerce and agriculture, hoping to found a city there.

Connecticut River's scouts located the Pocumtuc village of Agawam, where the Bay Path trade route crossed the Connecticut River at two of its major tributaries—the Chicopee River to the east and Westfield River to the west—and just north of Enfield Falls, the river's first unnavigable waterfall.

In 1641, Springfield splintered off from the Hartford-based Connecticut River Colony, allying itself with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1640, Massachusetts Bay Colony asserted a claim to jurisdiction over lands surrounding the river; however, Springfield remained politically independent until tensions with the Connecticut Colony were exacerbated by a final confrontation later that year.

Broad, fertile Connecticut River Valley attracted agricultural settlers and colonial traders to Hartford, Springfield, and the surrounding region.

The Connecticut River Valley functioned as America's hub of technical innovation into the 20th century, particularly the cities of Springfield and Hartford, and thus attracted numerous railroad lines.

In March 1936, due to a winter with heavy snowfall, an early spring thaw and torrential rains, the Connecticut River flooded, overflowing its banks, destroying numerous bridges and isolating hundreds of people who had to be rescued by boat.

The Connecticut River's largest falls – South Hadley Falls – features a vertical drop of 58 feet .

The region around the Connecticut River is known locally as the Pioneer Valley, and the name adorns many local civic organizations and local businesses.

Connecticut River is influenced by the tides as far north as Enfield Rapids in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, approximately 58 miles north of the river's mouth.

Connecticut River carries a heavy amount of silt from as far north as Quebec, especially during the spring snow melt.

The Connecticut is one of the few major rivers in the United States without a major city at its mouth because of this obstacle.

Major cities on the Connecticut River are Hartford and Springfield, which lie 45 and 69 miles upriver respectively.

Connecticut River's flow is slowed by main stem dams, which create a series of slow-flowing basins from Lake Francis Dam in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to the Holyoke Dam at South Hadley Falls in Massachusetts.

Along its southern reaches, the Connecticut River has carved a wide, fertile floodplain valley, depositing rich silt and loam soils known internationally for their agricultural merit.

In Massachusetts, the most active stretch of the Connecticut River is centered on the Oxbow, 14 miles north of Springfield in the college town of Northampton.

Connecticut River is a barrier to travel between western and eastern New England.

Connecticut River composed many of his poems, including "The River of Rivers in Connecticut" on his 2.