2108 UNITED STATES (Connecticut) - Connecticut map and flag

Located in New England, between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, and Long Island Sound, Connecticut was named after the Connecticut River (derived from various anglicized spellings of an  Algonquian word for "long tidal river"). Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Much of southern and western Connecticut is part of the New York metropolitan area.

1837 UNITED STATES (Connecticut) - Branford College (Yale University)

1837 Branford Court of Branford College towards Wrexham Tower

Branford College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University, the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, and moved in 1716 to New Haven, where it is even today. Inaugurated in 1933, these colleges are considered the defining feature of undergraduate life in Yale College. Eight of them were funded by educational philanthropist Edward S. Harkness, who admired the collegiate universities of England and funded a similar system of residential "houses" at Harvard College in 1928.