New Britain, Connecticut New Britain, Connecticut Official seal of New Britain, Connecticut Nickname(s): New Britski, Hard-Hittin' New Britain, Hardware City New Britain is a town/city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
Among the southernmost of the communities encompassed inside the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor urbane region, New Britain is home to Central Connecticut State University and Charter Oak State College.
The city's official nickname is the "Hardware City" because of its history as a manufacturing center and as the command posts of Stanley Black & Decker.
Because of its large Polish population, the town/city is often playfully referred to as "New Britski." New Britain was settled in 1687 and then was incorporated as a new church under the name New Britain Society in 1754.
Chartered in 1850 as a township and in 1871 as a city, New Britain had separated from the close-by town of Farmington, Connecticut.
During the early part of the 20th century, New Britain was known as the "Hardware Capital of the World", as well as "Hardware City".
In 1843 Frederick Trent Stanley established Stanley's Bolt Manufactory in New Britain to make door bolts and other wrought-iron hardware.
North of New Britain.
In 1895, the basketball technique of dribbling was advanced at the New Britain YMCA.
In 1938, New Britain High School competed in the high school football nationwide championship game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
New Britain's motto, Industria implet alveare et melle fruitur interpreted from Latin means "Industry fills the hive and appreciates the honey." This phrase was coined by Elihu Burritt, a 19th-century New Britain resident, diplomat, philanthropist and civil activist.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.4 square miles (34.7 km ), of which, 13.3 square miles (34.6 km ) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km ) of it (0.52%) is water.
New Britain's terrain is mostly made up of soft, rolling hills and young Connecticut forest.
New Britain's streets also have many trees lining the sides of the roads.
One or two streams flow through New Britain, undisturbed by the development.
New Britain has the biggest Polish populace of any town/city in Connecticut, and by 1930 a quarter of the town/city was ethnically Polish. Also referred to as "Little Poland", the city's Broad Street neighborhood has been home to a considerable number of Polish businesses and families since 1890.
On September 23, 2008, through the urging of the Polonia Business Association, the New Britain City Council unanimously passed a resolution officially designating New Britain's Broad Street region as "Little Poland." In recent years, the Polish improve has been credited with revitalizing the region both culturally and economically.
Notable visitors to the Polish precinct have encompassed Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan on July 8, 1987. In 1969, as then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II gave a mass at Sacred Heart Church. A statue was erected in his honor in 2007. Dubbed the city's "Polish heart" by The Boston Globe, Little Poland caught the consideration of Polish Ambassador to the US Ryszard Schnepf, who toured the region with US Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, US Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, as well as a several members of the Polish Sejm. The Polish influence could be in part responsible for some vowel qualities of the distinct ive New Britain accent, such as nasalization of reduced vowels before /n/.
"eight" is pronounced freshwater ), dominant to the shibboleth pronunciation of New Britain for many locals being [nu b n], freshwater [nu b tn ]. New Britain is home to the global command posts of the Fortune 500 manufacturing conglomerate Stanley Black & Decker.
Other notable companies headquartered in New Britain include Creed Monarch, Guida's Dairy and Polamer Precision.
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New Britain Museum of American Art, the earliest art exhibition in the United States devoted to American art.
New Britain Industrial Museum, a exhibition of New Britain's industrialized past and present Walnut Hill Park Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Central Park in New York City.
Connecticut Theatre Company, positioned in the historic Repertory Theatre of New Britain.
New Britain Youth Museum, contains children's artifacts and exhibits on county-wide culture.
New Britain is the home of the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, which was formed in 1948 by a several faculty members at the former Teacher's College, now Central Connecticut State University.
The orchestra was official organized as the New Britain Symphony Society, Inc.
In 1952 by Helen Kilduff, who was at the time the supervisor of music in New Britain's enhance schools. Maestro Ertan Seyyar Sener is the current conductor and musical director of the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, a part he assumed amid the 2014 2015 concert season.
New Britain is also home to the historic Repertory Theatre.
In 1955, a theater group known as the Repertory Theatre of New Britain acquired the Norden Street Lodge.
Members of the Repertory Theatre of New Britain sold bonds to theatre members and friends in order to acquire the property.
The New Britain Knitting Co.
New Britain Bees, minor league experienced baseball team playing in New Britain Stadium.
New Britain Fagan Cal Ripken Baseball League, a youth baseball program that serves kids from the City of New Britain between the ages of 4 & 12.
New Britain Little League (NBLL, previously known as Walicki A.W.
Stanley Little League), a youth baseball and softball organization that serves the kids of New Britain who are between the ages of 4 and 16.
The town/city is home to Central Connecticut State University and Charter Oak State College, a enhance liberal arts college.
New Britain Public Schools operates enhance schools.
The small-town high school is New Britain High School.
New Britain is also home to the Mountain Laurel Sudbury School.
Connecticut Route 9 is the city's chief expressway connecting traffic between Hartford (via I-84 and I-91) and Old Saybrook and Middletown.
Downtown New Britain serves as the southern end of CTfastrak, a bus rapid transit line.
There are also CTfastrak stations on East Main Street and East Street, the latter near Central Connecticut State University.
New Britain is served by Connecticut Transit New Britain.
New Britain has a close-by Amtrak station in adjoining Berlin.
There are also plans underway for a Springfield Hartford New Haven commuter rail, which would have Berlin as one of its stations.
Charles Avedisian (1917 1983), NB Athletic Director (1952 1966), member of 1944 New York Giants team ranked as #1 defensive unit in NFL history New Britain has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: "A city's Polish heart".
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City of New Britain CAFR "History - New Britain Symphony Orchestra".
History of New Britain by Camp, New Britain, 1889 Legendary Locals of New Britain by Amy Melissa Kirby, 2014 New Britain, by Alfred Andrews, 1867 A History of New Britain, by Herbert E.
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