Discovering New England: Exploring Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts

1. APPALACHIANS – Session 2 Sojourners Tramping through the Appalachians: Acadia to Acadié

2. APPALACHIANS – Session 2 Week 6: Newfoundland Week 5: Maritime Provinces Week 4: Quebec Weeks 2-3: New England New England Weeks 1: Becoming Vagabonds Louisiana to New England

3. NEW ENGLAND – Part 1 Week 3 Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Maine Vermont Rhode Island

4. TRAVEL & SIGHTSEEING BUT FIRST, WHERE DID WE JOURNEY IN THOSE STATES?

5. CONNECTICUT

6. CONNECTICUT

7. CONNECTICUT American Art Museum, New Britain Clock & Carousel Museums, Bristol Phelps Tavern, Simsbury 1st Church of Christ (1635) Wethersfield Mark Twain Museum, Hartford Former Beaumont Residence, New Caanan Yale – British Museum, New Haven Yale – Rare Book Museum, New Haven Mystic Seaport, New London Yale –Museum of Art, New Haven Yale – Peabody Museum, New Haven

8. RHODE ISLAND To New Hampshire To Plymouth, MA ` From Connecticut To Woods Hole, MA

9. RHODE ISLAND `

10. RHODE ISLAND The Breakers, Newport America’s Cup Hall of Fame, Bristol Providence Yacht Restoration School, Newport Purgatory Chasm, Newport Brown University, Providence Watch Hill Homes RI Design School, Providence

11. MASSACHUSETTS

12. MASSACHUSETTS Salem Northshore Drive JFK Museum, Hyannis Port Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Harvard – Mus of Natural History, Boston Amherst College & Emily Dickenson Museum Boots Cotton Mill & Textile Museum, Lowell JFK Presidential Library, Boston Plymouth Rock & Plymouth Plantation Minute Man NHP, Concord

13. STATE BY STATE COMPARISON • GEOGRAPHY • HISTORY • DEMOGRAPHICS • INDUSTRY • ECONOMICS

15. (Items in RED are unique to that State) (Items in RED are unique to that State)

16. NEW ENGLAND – Part 1 New England Regional Geology

17. NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL GEOLOGY FIRST, Let’s get the BIG picture…

18. Geologic Evolution of New England Specifically, lets look at the time periods of the Cambrian and Ordovician, 540 mybp thru 440 mybp

19. CAMBRIAN & ORDOVICIAN PERIODS Specifically, lets look at the time periods of the Cambrian and Ordovician, 540 mybp thru 440 mybp 650 MYBP 540 MYBP 440 MYBP

20. 550 Million Years Before Present (MYBP) Proto-North America Volcanic Island-Arc Lake Michigan Proto-Africa From Ron Blakely @ http://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/namPC550.jpg

21. Geologic Evolution of New England • Sediments are being scraped off the subducting plate Sediments forming an Accretionary Wedge in front of the Overriding Plate Subducting plate is melting, causing volcanoes on the leading edge of the Overriding Plate Ocean Overriding Plate Accretionary Wedge Subducting Plate

22. Geologic Evolution of New England 4. Volcanic Arc continues it’s westward movement; Prot0-North America continues it’s eastward movement 5. Sediments scraped off of Oceanic Crust continue to pile up in front of the Overriding Plate and metamorphs into rock

23. Geologic Evolution of New England 6. Sediments, which are now rocks, and Volcanic Arc debris are “docked” onto and become a part of Proto-North America 7. These “docked” rocks are weathered for millions of years and form the topography of New England

24. Piedmont Terrane #1 Proto-North American Continent Triassic Red-Bed Sedimentary & Basaltic Fill Piedmont Terrane #2 Avalonian Terrane

25. Geologic Evolution of New England Blue Ridge & Piedmonts Triassic Red-Beds • The collision of micro-continents, island-arc terranes, or proto-continents into Proto-North America has happened many times over geologic history creating the underlying terrain of New England • Subsequent glaciations & glacial retreating “scrubbed” the surface to shape today’s landscape topography

26. 3 SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS Week 3 Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island Dinosaur State Park Cape Cod Slater Mill

27. NEW ENGLAND – Part 1 Week 3 Connecticut Dinosaur State Park

28. DINOSAUR STATE PARK WHERE DID THESE TRACK COME FROM ? • Park has one of the largest on-site displays of dinosaur tracks in the world • Beneath the geodesic dome is an exceptional display of early Jurassic fossil tracks that were made 200 million years ago • 500 tracks are enclosed within a 55,000-square-foot dome; the remaining 1,500 tracks are buried for preservation • The trackway is located in Rocky Hill, CT (20 min south of Hartford)and has been designated a registered Natural Landmark by the U. S. Department of Interior

29. DINOSAUR STATE PARK • Most scientists agree that the trackmaker was a carnivorous dinosaur similar in size and shape to Dilophosaurus. The tracks range from 10 to 16 inches in length and are spaced 3.5 to 4.5 feet apart • Dipolarsours was only about 9 ft tall, 20 ft long and weighed ½ ton • Analysis of it’s teeth indicate poor basal strength, therefore it’s assumed that this dinosaur feed on dead carcasses • Time of dinosaurs started in the Jurassic (200 mya) and lasted for 140 mya Life Form Evolutionary Time Line

30. DINOSAUR STATE PARK • Trackway is only a ONE INCH thick layer of sandstone • Tracks indicated that dinos were traveling alone and in different, straight line • Most likely, they were just passing through and not congregating here http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Dinosaur_State_Park_%28Rocky_Hill%2C_CT%29_-_prints.JPG

31. DINOSAUR STATE PARK Horizontal Strata Syncline Fold Anticline Fold

32. DINOSAUR STATE PARK

33. DINOSAUR STATE PARK Negative Raindrop Impressions The impressions of driving raindrops which dimpled the soft mud one Early Jurassic day are now preserved in stone Ripple Marks Little wind-blown waves in shallow water 200 mya left fossilized ripples in the sand

34. DINOSAUR STATE PARK

35. OTHER USA TRACKWAY SITES Massachusettes MA Dinosaur Track Site • UTAH • Red Fleet SP • Warner Valley DT Site Colorado Dino Ridge Natl Natural Landmark Arizona Tuba City Site Wyoming Red Gulch DT Site New Mexico Clayton Lake SP

37. NEW ENGLAND – Part 1 Week 3 Rhode Island Slater Mill

38. Rhode Island – Slater Mill • Born in Derbyshire, England in 1768 • Known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" or the • "Father of the American Factory System" • Learned textile machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry • Brought his knowledge to America where he designed the first textile mills • Hannah Slater invented a type of cotton sewing thread, becoming in 1793 the first American woman to be granted a patent • By the end of Slater's life he owned thirteen spinning mills and had established tenant farms and towns around his textile mills • Price: He was considered a traitor in his native England The story starts with… Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835)

39. Rhode Island – Slater Mill • Drew on his British village experience to create a factory setting based on customary patterns of family life in New England villages • Children aged 7 to 12 were the first employees of the mill starting in 1790. • Tried to staff his mill with women and children from far away, without avail due to the close-knit framework of the New England family • Brought in whole families, creating entire towns • Provided company-owned housing nearby, along with company stores and sponsored a Sunday School where college students taught the children reading and writing. • This factory system is now called the "Rhode Island System"

40. Rhode Island – Slater Mill

41. Rhode Island – Slater Mill Blackstone River Slater Mill Wilkinson Mill

42. Rhode Island – Slater Mill

43. Rhode Island – Slater Mill

44. Rhode Island – Slater Mill Drill press Metal Lathe Wood lathe Wood Planner Scroll Saw

45. Rhode Island – Slater Mill

46. Rhode Island – Slater Mill

47. Rhode Island – Slater Mill • Moved from a water wheel to turbine • Water turbine in the Slater Mill • Turbine is being restored today so that it can continue to be used to produce electricity for the historic site

49. NEW ENGLAND – Part 1 Week 3 Massachusetts CAPE COD

50. CAPE COD FORMATION MASSACHUSETTS