By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 16/17 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Many people know that Connecticans became pioneers of manifest destiny through their late-18th-into-early-19th-century emigrations west to Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and Ohio’s Western Reserve. Fewer are aware that before Connecticans went west, many thousands migrated north, following the Connecticut River to what became … Continue reading From the State Historian: When The West Was North