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Circus Fire 1944
A Tragedy's Medical Aftermath, Find A Grave: Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, Hartford History: The Circus Fire, Hero with a Pocket Knife Recalls Circus Fire, History Buff: The Day the Clowns Cried, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 'The Circus Fire: A , The Hartford Circus Fire, The Hartford Circus Fire of 1944
Maps and Views
Augustus Washington: Hartford's Black Daguerr, Bushnell Park, 1912, Charles Lindbergh, 1927, Downtown Hartford, Downtown Hartford, 1890, Downtown Hartford, 1890, Downtown Hartford, c1900, Hartford Baseball Club, 1944, Hartford in the 1850s: Drawings by Joseph Ropes, Hartford Studies: City Views
Monuments and Plaques
Civil War, Founders of Hartford, Hungerstrikers Memorial, Images of Historical Hartford, Original Proprietors of Hartford, Connecticut 1636
A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
Reprint of article by Sandra Wheeler with vintage photos as published in the inaugural issue of The Hog River Journal.
A Shoeleather History of Hartford, Connecticut
A look at some interesting tidbits of history pertaining to the city.
Aetna History
Timeline of the insurance giant's history dating from 1850 to present day.
Bushnell Park History
Descriptive overview provided.
Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Spa
Book review by James Borchert originally published in 2002 in the Journal of Social History.
Hartford History
Writings on the history of Hartford, Connecticut, including artitcles, essays, academic papers, and personal recollections.
History of the Hartford Police Department
Overview of the development and progress of the organization from 1901 forward.
Original Proprietors of Hartford, 3d Ed.
Provides information taken from The Original Proprietors,?authored by Mary Kingsbury Talcott in 1886, and republished by the Society of The Descendants of Hartford, Inc.,?in 1986.
The Hartford Convention
Article by Albert E. Van Dusen, presented by the Connecticut Humanities Council.
The History of Elizabeth Park
Brief overview provided.
Thomas Hooker
Reprint of article by Alice Porter that was originally published in the July/August 1906 edition of Connecticut Magazine.