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Bulkeley Bridge, circa 1906-1916. Pratt & Whitney Factory, 1940. On July 6, 1944, Hartford was the scene of one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire, which occurred at a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, became known as the Hartford Circus Fire.
1640 – Burying Ground established (approximate date). 1647 – Alse Young hanged for witchcraft. [2] 1662 – Hartford serving as capital of Connecticut Colony. [1] 1670 – Indian treaty signed. [3] 1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of Connecticut Colony.
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [ 3 ] Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it "part steamboat, part medieval fortress ...
Website. www.hartford.gov. Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 census. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. [ 9 ] Founded in 1635, Hartford is among ...
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut was a short walk from the state capitol.
Asylum Hill is a 615-acre (2.49 km 2) centrally located Hartford neighborhood with about 10,500 residents. It rises uphill directly west of Downtown Hartford but is mostly flat until it slopes downward at its western edge, along the flood plain of the north branch of the now-buried Park River.
Connecticut sees a fairly even precipitation pattern with rainfall/snowfall spread throughout the 12 months. [123] Connecticut averages 56% of possible sunshine (higher than the U.S. national average), averaging 2,400 hours of sunshine annually. [124] On average, about one third of days in the state see some amount of precipitation each year. [123]
Downtown Hartford. Pratt Street is a "historic, one-block, quasi-pedestrian mall" in the heart of downtown Hartford. [1] Downtown Hartford, Connecticut is the primary business district of the city, and the center of Connecticut 's state government. Because of the large number of insurance companies headquartered there, Hartford is known as the ...