Remembering Old Hartford

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Asylum Street in 1875
My latest YouTube video is about the south side of the block of Asylum Street between Ann and Ford Streets.
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A Busy Day for the Police's Raiding Squad in 1906
Police Raid an Illegal Liquor Business
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Motoring Dangers in the 1910s
Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a group of employees of RTX a tour of the West End of Hartford.
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A Devastating Fire on Asylum Street in 1899
In my most recent video, which is about the history of the block of Asylum Street between Union Place and High Street, across from Bushnell Park, I…
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New Video about What used to be on the sites of the HPL and Ribicoff Buildings
The massive Hartford Public Library and Ribicoff Federal Building/US Courthouse replaced many historic structures
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A Hartford Saloon Stabbing in 1901
Saloons could be dangerous places in old Hartford.
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A Long Lost Hartford Fire Bucket
Instances from the city's firefighting history
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June 2025

May 2025

New Video: A Fired Architect and the Lost Campus of Hartford Seminary on Broad Street
My latest YouTube video is about the campus of the Hartford Theological Seminary, which stood on Broad Street in Hartford, CT.
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Rossia Insurance's Carl F. Sturhahn
Part One on a German immigrant and his homes in Hartford
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Moving a 12-Family Tenement Building in 1917-18
No movers could be found in Connecticut willing to undertake the job
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