As early as 1633 the Dutch had established a trading post called Good Hope at Suckiage on the Connecticut River. After some early explorations, the Reverends Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone led their congregation in 1635 on an overland trek from Newtown, Massachusetts, to establish a plantation at nearly the same place. The settlement was first called Newtown but on 21 February 1636/7 the General Court changed the name to Hartford. Town vital records begin 1852. Barbour collection records cover 1635-1855.
Seven foot bronze on pink granite base. "In Memory of the Men of Connecticut Who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons 1861-1865"
Location:
State Capitol Grounds
Type:
Military
Dedication Date:
10/23/1907
Artist/Sculptor:
Bela Pratt
Name:
Christopher Columbus
Description:
Gift to the city from the Italian-American residents.
Location:
Washington St. near the Capitol
Type:
Other
Dedication Date:
00/00/1000
Artist/Sculptor:
Vincenzo Miserendino
Name:
Layfayette
Description:
Lifesize statue of Marquis de Layfayette on horseback.Gift of Mrs. Frances Hudson Storrs. Copy of the original in the Louvre, a gift to France from the schoolchildren of the U.S.
Location:
Traffic circle on Capitol Ave in front of the Capitol
Type:
Military
Dedication Date:
00/00/1000
Artist/Sculptor:
Paul Wayland Bartlett
Name:
Petersburg Express
Description:
Thirteen inch mortar (actually used in the seige of Petersburg) on a granite pedestal. Memorial to the Civil War service of the 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery.
Location:
Near State Capitol
Type:
Military
Dedication Date:
09/25/1902
Artist/Sculptor:
Paul Caberat
Name:
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
Description:
This Gothic brownstone and terra-cotta arch spans Park street. It recalls the service of 4,000 Hartford men who bore arms in the Civil War, including 400 who died. Only two states contributed more soldiers to the Union Army.
Location:
Bushnell Park, Ford St.
Type:
Military
Dedication Date:
09/17/1886
Artist/Sculptor:
George Keller, Architect
Name:
Stedman Monument
Description:
Twenty-one foot bronze on granite base. Inscribed GRIFFIN A. STEDMAN
TYPICAL VOLUNTEER SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR, CAPTAIN
MAJOR,LIEUTENANT COLONEL, COLONEL, BRIGADIER GENERAL BORN AT HARTFORD, CONN., JANUARY 6, 1838.KILLED AT PETERSBURG, VA., AUGUST 5, 1864
Location:
10 Campfield Ave
Type:
Military
Dedication Date:
10/04/1900
Artist/Sculptor:
Frederick Moynihan
Name:
Weld Monument
Description:
White Marble Stele. approx. six feet, memorializes Lt. Col. Lewis Ledyard Weld, commander of the 41st Colored Infantry and his brother, Charles Theodore Weld, who was killed at Chancellorsville.
A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, vol. I, 1635-1750.
Author:
Charles William Manwaring
Date Published:
1904
Publisher:
R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford, CT
Description:
Complied by Charles William Manwaring, a Member of the Historical Society, vol. 1 of a three vol. set.
Name:
A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. II, 1740-1729
Author:
Charles William Manwaring
Date Published:
1904
Publisher:
R. S. Peck & Co., Hartford, CT
Description:
See Vol. I
Name:
A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, vol. III, 1729-1750
Author:
Charles William Manwaring
Date Published:
1906
Publisher:
R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford, CT
Description:
See Vol. I
Name:
Families of Early Hartford
Author:
Lucius Barnes Barbour
Date Published:
1977
Publisher:
CSG Inc. and Gen. Pub. Co., Baltimore
Description:
Prepared from an unpublished Barbour manuscript by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc. in cooperation with the Connecticut State Library.
Name:
History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883
Author:
George Leon Walker
Date Published:
1884
Publisher:
Brown & Gross, Hartford, CT
Name:
Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639
Author:
Connecticut Historical Society
Date Published:
1912
Publisher:
Connecticut Historical Society
Description:
Also known as "Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Vol. XIV", includes "Early Hartford Vital Records"
Name:
The Colonial History of Hartford
Author:
William DeLoss Love
Date Published:
02/23/1914
Publisher:
Centinel Press (1974 latest edition)
Description:
Originally published in 1914, republished in 1935, Bicentennial Edition reproduced from the 1935 edition by Connecticut Publisher and published in 1974 by Centinel Hill Press in association with Pequot Press, ISBN 87106-133-3
Name:
The Memorial History of Hartford, County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
