Transportation

Over the past three hundred years, people have traveled by foot, carriage, stagecoach, wagon, canal, ship, trolley, ferry, train, bike, automobile, and plane.  Use the resources below to learn more about how transportation has changed in Connecticut since the 1600's and how people in Connecticut travel today.

eBooks:

• Where I Live: Connecticut (Chapter 7)

  • Airports

  • Stagecoach

  • Canals

  • Amazing Automobiles

• Connecticut (United States) by Jim Ollhoff (page 34-45) (available through Destiny Discover)

• Transportation Inventions: Moving Our World Forward by Robert Walker (available through Epic!)

• The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Transportation Technology by M.M. Eboch (available through Epic!)

Websites:

• Timeline of the History of Transportation in Hartford, Connecticut

• Today's Connecticut Transit

• Interactive Travel Map

• Overland Travel in Connecticut: From Footpath to Interstates (Challenge)

Magazines:

• Connecticut Studies Weekly: Week 23- Transportation

Library Books:

• Yankee Doodle Numbers: A Connecticut Number Book by Elissa D. Grodin (Number 9 and 90)

• Connecticut (Hello U.S.A.) by Amy Gelman (page 74)

• Connecticut, Connecticut: Past and Present by Laura La Bella (page 28-29)

• Ask your Library Media Specialist to help you find other books!

Bradley International Airport:

• Connecticut's International Airport

• ConnecticutHistory.org

  • Bradley International Airport Transforms Windsor Locks into Regional Gateway (Challenge)

Ferries:

• Bissell's Ferry History (Challenge)

• Connecticut Curiosities: Site of the Oldest Ferry in the United States

• Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry

• Connecticut State Ferries

• ConnecticutHistory.org

  • Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut (Challenge) 

Trains:

• Essex Steam Train History

• Connecticut Railways

• ConnecticutHistory.org

  • Steam Railroads Transform Connecticut Travel and Commerce (Challenge)

Riverboats:

• ConnecticutHistory.org

  • Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River (Challenge)

Trolleys:

• Trolley Towns of Connecticut Map

• ConnecticutHistory.org

  • A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford-Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric (Challenge)