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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.
Deaths. 87. Property damage. $200 million in 1955 US dollars. The Flood of 1955 was one of the worst floods in Connecticut's history. Two back-to-back hurricanes saturated the land and several river valleys in the state, causing severe flooding in August 1955. The rivers most affected were the Mad River and Still River in Winsted, the Naugatuck ...
Dunne was born in 1925 in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children of Richard Edwin Dunne, a hospital chief of staff and a heart surgeon, and Dorothy Frances (née Burns). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His maternal grandfather, Dominick Francis Burns (1857–1940), was a successful grocer, who, in 1919, co-founded the Park Street Trust Company, a ...
CTNow is a free weekly newspaper in central and southwestern Connecticut, United States, published by the Hartford Courant.. The previous iteration of CTNow was New Mass. Media, a privately owned weekly newspaper company until 1999, when its owners, including founding publisher Geoffrey Robinson, sold the company to The Hartford Courant for an undisclosed sum.
Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon (June 15, 1899 – November 1, 2005) was a Mohegan medicine woman, [1] anthropologist, author, tribal council member, and elder based in Connecticut.
Thomas J. Spellacy. Thomas Joseph Spellacy (March 6, 1880 – December 5, 1957) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the 47th Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, held several other offices, and was one of Connecticut's most prominent Democrats over a period of more than 50 years.
A. Everett "Chick" Austin (1900–1957), arts innovator and director of the Wadsworth Atheneum. Nadine M. DeLawrence (1953–1992), African-American visual artist; born and raised in Hartford [ 2] George Keller (1842–1935), architect, noted for Hartford's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch and Hartford Union Station. Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter.
Hannah Bunce was the daughter of Aaron and Hannah Bunce. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on 28 December 1749. She became the second wife of Ebenezer Watson in 1771. After his death, she married a second time to Barzillai Hudson in 1779. [a] She died 27 September 1807 in Hartford, [1] and is buried there in the Old South Burying Ground.