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Welcome to Trumbull
Fairfield County
Connecticut
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Trumbull, CT
Trumbull is a town and census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 34,243 at the 2000 census.
Notable people, past and present
Craig Breslow, Pitcher, Boston Red Sox
Chris Drury, former NHL Rookie of the Year, Olympic medalist, and member of 1989 Little League World Series Champions from Trumbull, CT.
Carolyn Hax (b. 1966), a writer and columnist for the Washington Post and the author of the advice column "Tell Me About It," was born in Bridgeport and grew up in Trumbull.
Lisa Lampanelli, comedian
Wayne Norman, morning radio voice at WILI-AM, Willimantic, CT since 1970, radio voice of University of Connecticut basketball and football, and author (Hoop Tales: UConn Huskies Men's Basketball). Born in Hollywood, but graduated Trumbull HS, 1966.
Matt Nuzie, place kicker, University of Connecticut Huskies football team
Chris Soule, Olympic skeleton (sport) athlete
Jerry McDougall, retired Head Coach, Trumbull High School football team, winningest football coach in Connecticut high school football state history, McDougall Stadium at Trumbull High School is named in his honor
Trumbull is well-known for winning the Little League World Series in 1989.
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation
The Golden Hill Paugussets are a group of Native Americans living in Trumbull, Connecticut. They are a source of a great deal of controversy in the area, due to their continual and unsuccessful quest to get federal recognition, which is generally denied due to a claimed failure on their part to accurately show lineage to the original Golden Hill Paugussett nation. This prohibits them from activities such as opening a casino.
The tribe's failure to get federal recognition also makes it difficult for them to pursue their claims to much of the land that was historically part of the Paugusset nation. They have claimed legal rights to hundreds of square miles of land running from Orange/Woodbridge in New Haven County though Fairfield County to Greenwich and extending North into Eastern Litchfield County up to the Massachusetts border.
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