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History


Hartford History Sources: arrow - click for Table of Contents                Sources               Articles

  

Laws & National Historic Register:   arrow - click for Table of Contents
Hartford historic preservation law    

National Register of Hist Places    35 Hfd districts  80 buildings  see map

      West End Districts on the National Register of Historic Places:
      Prospect Avenue (north of Elizabeth St.)  1985  #85001918
      West End North  (north of Farmington Ave.) 1985  #85001618
      West End South  (north of West Blvd. to Whitney) 1985  #85000763 
      West Boulevard  (Rodney St. & West Blvd.) 2006  #06000615
      Little Hollywood  (Frederick, Dennison, Owen Sts)  1982  #82004423
      West End Center (pending) 2010
      
          Individually Listed:
          Elizabeth Park  1983, #83001259
          Seminary District   1982, #82004411
          Austin House   1994, #94001189
          Children's Village   1982, #82004404
          Watkinson School   1995, #95000273

Hfd Board of Trade - Promoting Hartford in 1889

  

History Overview - Sources:   arrow - click for Table of Contents
Hartford, CT: landmarks, history, neighborhoods  
      books    site map  
Connecticut Historical Society 
Hartford Preservation Alliance  
Hartford Public Library
   Hfd Collection   
n
ews Articles
Hog River Journal   about   subscribe  

Park River Project 
  
history
Hartford Studies project  
Hartford History Website    articles  

Stowe-Day Foundation
Antiquarian and Landmarks Society
Wadsworth Athaneum Library
 
Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

 
Hartford History Articles:   arrow - click for Table of Contents       1600       1700       1800       1900       2000
 

News Article search  
Hartford Firsts  
A Shoeleather History of Hartford   
The History of Hartford  
Carolyn’s History of Hartford  

1600's    arrow - click for Table of Contents
1633  The Dutch Put Hartford on the Map  
1636 
Hartford Founded as a Progressive Puritan Settlement  
1638 
Hartford Black History Project  
1687 
Legend of the Charter Oak  
1689  Creative License, or Fundamental Fact  

1700's   arrow - click for Table of Contents
1730  Market Street Bookshop History  
1740  Oldest Hfd Building (1740) in Storage  
1750 
Black Governor's Ball   
1781 
First US-French Revolutionary War Conference  
1781 
Washington-Rocheambeau Revolutionary Route  
1782 
The Butler-McCook House  
1783 
Noah Webster  
1789  Hfd Fire Dept History    major fires   Firehouse Cooking
1795  Ohio Land Speculation Benefits CT Public Schools  
1796 
First American Cookbook  

1800's   arrow - click for Table of Contents
1800  Frederick Law Olmstead
1815 
How the Lions Came to City Hall  
1818 
Temples Woven in Hartford History  
1819  CT's First Black Congregation - 3rd in U.S   
1851  Making a Success of Coltsville  
1851 
Miracle on Capitol Avenue  
1860 
Hartford Speech: Lincoln's Brilliance   
1862  Doctoring on the Field of Battle  

1863 
Black Society after the Civil War  
1872 
The Trinity College Long Walk  
1874  Hartford Dark Blues Ball Club 1875   more 
1875 
The Cheney Building  
1876 
CT Inventors first in the Nation  
1877  The Seldon Patent – first auto combustion engine  
1888 
The Governor's Foot Guard Hall  
1891 
Motto Flatiron Building - Congress St  
1893 
Austin Organ Co is 112 Years Old  
1895 
The First Auto Manufacturing in the U.S   more  3  
1895  Hog River History  
1895  The Horseless Era Arrives  

1900's   arrow - click for Table of Contents
1902  Hfd Senators Vintage Baseball Club  
1908 
Opening of the Bulkeley Bridge  
1912  Hartford City Hall Turns 90   more  
1918 
Hartford's Aircraft Industry  
1918
  Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut    
1929  Polish National Home Turns 75  
1930 
Mi Casa's Renovation  
1940  In a Neighborhood, a Boy's World 
1944  Hartford Circus Fire Memorial   article   more   
1954 
Enigma of Wallace Stevens  website  walk  13 Ways
1955  Rosa Parks Memorial Service - Hartford  
1956 
St. Anne's Church  
1974  The Education of Ella Grasso  

2000's   arrow - click for Table of Contents
2003  Samuel Stone Statue - Hartford's Sister City  
2004 
Refugees in Hartford  
2005 
Home for Rogers African-American Cultural Ctr  

 

   

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