Connecticut
142 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Colt, Winchester, and the Arsenal of Democracy
- Connecticut Whaling and the Sea
- Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts
- The Amistad, Freedom on the Long Island Sound
- The Capital of American Insurance
- The Charter Oak, A Colony Hides Its Liberties
- The First Nations of the Long Tidal River
- The Fundamental Orders, The Constitution State
- The Gold Coast and Two Connecticuts
- The Land Itself, Glaciers, Traprock, and the Connecticut River
- The Pequot War, Mystic, Sixteen Thirty-Seven
- The Yankee Peddler, Brass, and the Naugatuck Valley
Near Bridgeport Stamford
- Birdcraft: America's First Bird Sanctuary
- Black Rock Harbor, Bridgeport
- Bush-Holley House: The Cos Cob Art Colony
- Danbury's Hat City: Main Street and the Industry That Built It
- Fairfield Swamp Fight, 1637
- General Tom Thumb
- Jackie Robinson's Last Home
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk
- Mill Hill: Norwalk's Colonial Core
- Norwalk: Founded, Burned, Rebuilt
- Olmsted's Parks
- Sandy Hook: Mills at the Edge of Newtown
- Sikorsky and the Helicopter
- Southport: Federal-Era Port Village
- Stamford and the Corporate Migration
- The Cartridge Works
- The Danbury Raid: Wooster's Last Stand
- The Flying Pie Tin
- The Immigrant Factory City
- The Paugussett and the Golden Hill
- The Pin-Tumbler and the Lock City
- The Sewing Machine Capital
- The Shakespeare Theatre on the Sound
- The Showman's City
- The Socialist Mayor
- Tongue Point Light
- Westport: The Town That Artists Built
Near Hartford
- Avon, Connecticut: The Land att Nod
- Bristol, Connecticut: Clock Town
- Bushnell Park and the First People's Vote for a Public Park
- Buttolph-Williams House
- Cheney Brothers Silk Mills
- Collinsville: Where the World Got Its Axes
- Colt's Armory: The Factory That Armed a Nation
- Cromwell, Connecticut: Two Centuries as Upper Houses
- Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum
- Elizabeth Colt: The Woman Who Rebuilt the Armory
- Farmington, Connecticut: Grand Central Station of Freedom
- First Church of Christ, Farmington
- Hartford as the Insurance Capital of the World
- Hill-Stead: The House a Woman Architect Built for Impressionism
- Joseph Webb House
- Middlefield and Lyman Orchards: Ten Generations on One Farm
- Nathan Hale Homestead: The Spy Who Never Came Home
- New Britain Museum: America's First Art Museum for American Art
- Noah Webster and the American Language
- Noah Webster's Birthplace: Where American English Got Its Rules
- Nook Farm: Two American Writers, One Extraordinary Block
- Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
- Rentschler Field: From Test Runway to Football Stadium
- Rocky Hill: America's Oldest Ferry and a Dinosaur Discovery
- Samuel Colt and the Blue Onion Dome
- Stanley-Whitman House
- The Amos Eno House: A Manhattan Fortune's Summer Address
- The Ancient Burying Ground: Five Thousand Buried, Four Hundred Stones
- The Charter Oak: Darkness, a Candle, and a Hidden Document
- The Cheney Silk Mills: America's Silk Capital, Nine Miles Away
- The Fundamental Orders: The First Written Constitution
- The Harriet Beecher Stowe House: Nook Farm and the Book That Shook a Nation
- The Hartford Circus Fire: July 6, 1944
- The Old State House and the Amistad
- The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch: America's First Triumphal Arch
- The Wadsworth Atheneum: America's Oldest Public Art Museum
- Thomas Hooker and the Long Walk to Hartford
- Tolland: County Seat on the Old Boston Road
- Vernon: The Mill Town on the Hockanum
- Wethersfield: Onion Town, Witch Town, and the First Connecticut Settlement
- Windsor Locks: The Canal That Named a Town
Near New Haven
- A.C. Gilbert and the Man Who Saved Christmas
- Bank Street, Waterbury
- Cass Gilbert's City on Field Street
- Charles Goodyear and the Accident That Changed Everything
- East Rock Park: Traprock, Regicides, and a City on the Ridge
- Eli Whitney and the Gun Factory
- Frank Pepe and the Apizza
- Grove Street Cemetery and the City of the Dead
- Henry Whitfield House, Guilford
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum: The World's Largest Famine Art Collection
- Mattatuck Museum: Art in the Brass City
- May Day, 1970
- Meriden: How a Connecticut Town Became the Silver City of the World
- North Haven, Connecticut: Bricks, Bogs, and a Separate Parish
- The Amistad
- The Clock Tower of Waterbury
- The Elton Hotel, Waterbury
- The First Hamburger
- The First Telephone Exchange
- The Green and What Lies Beneath It
- The Gun That Won the West Was Made Here
- The Knights of Columbus and Father McGivney
- The Quinnipiac and the Nine-Square City
- The Three Judges and the Rock
- Union Station, New Haven
- Wallingford, Connecticut
- Wooster Square: How New Haven Became America's Pizza Capital
- Yale, the Book Donation, and the Town-Gown Divide
Near Springfield
Along the way
- Danbury, Connecticut: Hat Capital of the World
- DSV Turtle: The Submarine That Proved It Could Be Done
- Emma C. Berry: Last of the Noank Smacks
- Fort Griswold Battlefield
- Fort Griswold: The Massacre on the Heights
- Groton Monument: Fort Griswold's Darkest Day
- Groton: Submarine Capital of the World
- Hotchkiss-Fyler House: Victorian Torrington's Last Word
- Killingly, Connecticut: Cotton Capital of the State
- L. A. Dunton: Last of the Gloucester Fishing Schooners
- Lake Waramaug: A Chief's Fishing Ground
- Lyman Allyn Art Museum
- Miss Florence and the American Giverny
- Mount Tom State Park: Connecticut's First Public Summit
- Mystic Seaport: America's Maritime Memory
- New London Union Station
- New Milford: Frontier Town, Housatonic Shore
- Niantic: A Village Named for a People
- Old Lyme: Where American Impressionism Took Root
- Old Saybrook: Connecticut's First European Foothold
- Oliver Wolcott House: Litchfield's Founding Father
- Pequot Fort: The Palisade on the Hill
- Railroad Museum of New England, Thomaston
- Sabino: Oldest Coal-Fired Steamboat Still Running
- The Charles W. Morgan: Last of the Wooden Whalers
- The Mystic Massacre: Sixteen Thirty-Seven
- The Old Boardman Bridge: Iron Where Wood Used to Be
- The Parker House: One of Connecticut's Oldest Survivors
- Thomas Lee House: Oldest Wood-Frame House in Connecticut
- USS Flasher: America's Deadliest Sub
- Westerly and the Stone That Built the Nation
- Willington: A Governor's Lottery and a Woolen Mill Town
- Woodbury, Connecticut: Birthplace of American Episcopacy