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John Winthrop, then of Massachusetts, got permission to create a new colony at Old Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River in 1635. This was the first of three distinct colonies that later would be combined to make up Connecticut.

Date of statehood (admission) was Wednesday, January 9, 1788

Connecticut's official nickname, adopted in 1959, is "The Constitution State," based on its colonial constitution of 1638-39

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