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Beginning in the mid-1930s, state and federal governments examined ways to improve road transportation around the country. While some federal roads linked
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In a November 1934 article, Agnes Heisler Barton recognized the kitchen as the most modern room in the house. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth
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What do the Bigelow Carpet Company of Enfield, Underwood Typewriter Company of Hartford, and Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company of Manchester have
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Before the age of the computer, typewriters fulfilled our need to write faster than our pens would allow. The gentle click of keys on a keyboard are no
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Just off Route 202 in Simsbury is the former Pettibone Tavern, a local landmark that has served travelers since 1780. Built by Jonathon Pettibone Jr., the
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The 19th century saw an explosion in the popularity of jewelry made from human hair. Because hair does not decompose after its removal from the body, it
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When visitors to the 窪蹋勛圖厙 Historical Society are told the building was once the home of Hartford industrialist Curtis Veeder, their first question
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Newspapers have been called the first rough draft of history. The newspaper that has been filling that role for the United States longer than any other is
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Richard Welling loved Hartford. He loved its classic 18th- and 19th-century architecture, buildings like the Old State House and the 窪蹋勛圖厙 State
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By the 1940s, it was clear that many buildings in downtown Hartford needed to be updated. Yearly flooding and deferred maintenance left aging buildings on