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Lamentation Mountain State Park. Macedonia Brook State Park. Mashamoquet Brook State Forest. Massacoe State Forest. Mattatuck State Forest. Meshomasic State Forest. Millers Pond State Park. Mohawk State Forest. Mohawk State Park. Mount Bushnell State Park. Mount Riga State Park. Mount Tom State Park. Nassahegan State Forest. Natchaug State Forest. Nathan Hale State Forest. Naugatuck State Forest. Nehantic State Forest. Nepaug State Forest. Nipmuck State Forest. Nye-Holman State Forest. Old Furnace State Park. Osborndale State Park. Pachaug State Forest. Paugussett State Forest. Paugnut State Forest. Penwood State Park. Peoples State Forest. Pootatuck State Forest. Putnam Memorial State Park. Quaddick State Forest. Quaddick State Park. Quinnipiac River State Park. Reeves Lookout State Wildlife Area. Rocky Glen State Park. Rocky Neck State Park. Salmon River State Forest. Selden Neck State Park. Seth Pierrepont State Park. Shade Swamp State Wildlife Area. Shenipsit State Forest. Sherwood Island State Park. Sleeping Giant State Park. South Windsor State Wildlife Area. Southford Falls State Park. Squantz Pond State Park. Stoddard Hill State Park. Stratton Brook State Park. Sunset Rock State Park. Trimountain State Park. Tunxis State Forest. Wadsworth Falls State Park. West Peak State Park. Wharton Brook State Park. Whittemore Glen State Park. Windsor Meadows State Park. Wooster Mountain State Park. Wyantenock State Forest., Topography Western upland, the Berkshires, in the Northwest; narrrow central lowlands; hilly eastern upland, Highest Point Mt. Frissell; 2,380 feet, 36th, Lowest Point Long Island Sound; Sea level, Media , Sports New England Seawolves (AFL) - Hartford., Facts The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878. The USS Nautilus - the world's first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954. Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). In 1705, copper was discovered in Simsbury. Later, the copper mine became the infamous New-Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War. Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America in 1737. The Scoville Memorial Library is the United States oldest public library. The library collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London. Patrons could borrow and return books on the third Monday of every third month. Fees were collected for damages, the most common being "greasing" by wax dripped from the candles by which the patrons read., Biographies Dean Acheson statesman, Middletown. Ethan Allan American Revolutionary soldier, Litchfield. Benedict Arnold American Revolutionary general, Norwich. P. T. Barnum showman, Bethel. Henry Ward Beecher clergyman, Litchfield., Link  .