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| Civic Center Mall, Hartford |
Hartford Civic Center Mall, located in Hartford, Connecticut, was an underground shopping mall built in the 1970s as an urban redevelopment project. Called the "Bunker" by its critics, the mall was unsuccessful and many of its tenants left in the 1990s. (references) |
| George Huntington Hartford |
George Huntington Hartford (1833-1917) founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1859 with George Gilman. (references) |
| Greater Hartford |
The Greater Hartford region is a region located in the state of Connecticut centered around the state's capital of Hartford. It is roughly contiguous with the boundaries of Hartford County and Tolland County. (references) |
| Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science |
The Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science or GHAMAS is a regional high school located at The Learning Corridor in Hartford, Connecticut. It is run by the Capital Region Education Council (CREC), one of 6 Regional Educational Service Centers (RESC) in Connecticut. (references) |
| Hartford (village), Vermont |
Hartford is one of five villages located in the Town of Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont. It also referred to as Hartford Village and is on the National Register as a Historic Village. The local library and church are also on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the birthplace of Horace Wells, the first dentist to use nitrous oxide or "laughing gas" as anesthesia. (references) |
| Hartford and Dedham Turnpike |
The Hartford and Dedham Turnpike was a turnpike in Massachusetts. It ran from Dedham southwest to West Medway, where it continued as the earlier Ninth Massachusetts Turnpike and Boston Turnpike to Hartford, Connecticut. (references) |
| Hartford Ball Club Grounds |
Hartford Ball Club Grounds is a former baseball ground located in Hartford, Connecticut. The ground was home to the Hartford Dark Blues of the National Association from 1874 to 1875 and of the National League for the 1876 season. (references) |
| Hartford Circus Fire |
The Hartford Circus Fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by approximately 7,500 to 8,700 people. (references) |
| Hartford Civic Center |
The Hartford Civic Center is a sports and convention complex located in Hartford, Connecticut. (references) |
| Hartford Convention |
The Hartford Convention was an event in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's secession from the United States was discussed. It led to the demise of the nation's first political party, the Federalist Party. (references) |
| Hartford Dark Blues |
The Hartford Dark Blues were a 19th century baseball team. The team was based in Hartford, Connecticut. They were a member of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players in 1874 and 1875. (references) |
| Hartford fern |
Delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California |
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California, 509 U.S. 764 (1993), was a controversial United States Supreme Court case which held that foreign companies acting in foreign countries could nevertheless be held liable for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act if they conspired to restrain trade within the United States, and succeeded in doing so. (references) |
| Hartford Hellions |
The Hartford Hellions were a soccer team based out of Hartford, Connecticut that played in the Major Soccer League. They played from 1979 to 1981. Their home arena was Hartford Civic Center. (references) |
| Hartford Whalers |
The Hartford Whalers, previously known as the New England Whalers, were a World Hockey Association (WHA) and later National Hockey League (NHL) franchise from 1972 to 1997. In 1997, the Whalers franchise was moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and its name changed to the Carolina Hurricanes. (references) |
| New Hartford (town), New York |
New Hartford is a town located in Oneida County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 21,172. The name of New Hartford was provided by a settler family from Hartford, Connecticut. (references) |
| New Hartford (village), New York |
New Hartford is a village located in Oneida County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 1,886. (references) |
| New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeast United States. Commonly referred to as the New Haven, the railroad served the states of Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Its primary connections included Boston and New York. (references) |
| The Hartford Courant |
The Hartford Courant is Connecticut's largest daily newspaper, and is a morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury. Its headquarters on Broad Street are a short walk from the state capitol, and it reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. (references) |
| Treaty of Hartford |
The term Treaty of Hartford applies to three historic agreements negotiated at Hartford, Connecticut. The 1638 treaty divided the spoils of the Pequot War. The 1650 treaty defined a border between the Dutch New Amsterdam and English settlers in Connecticut. In the 1786 treaty New York and Massachusetts reached an agreement on their western land claims. (references) |
| Universalist Church of West Hartford |
The Universalist Church of West Hartford organized in 1821 as the "First Independent Universalist Society in the City of Hartford" and worshipped in a building on Central Row in Hartford, across from the Old State House. The church moved from there to a building on Main Street where the Travelers Tower now stands and then to one on Asylum Avenue near Cogswell Street. The present building in West Hartford dates from 1931, with the addition of Fiske Hall, some church school rooms and a new sanctuary organ in 1962. (references) |
| USS Hartford |
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Hartford, named in honor of the Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. (references) |
| USS Hartford (1858) |
USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. (references) |
| USS Hartford (SSN-768) |
USS Hartford (SSN-768), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the second ship of the Navy to be named for Hartford, Connecticut. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 30 June 1988 and her keel was laid down on 22 February 1992. She was launched on 4 December 1993 sponsored by Laura O'Keefe, wife of former Secretary of the Navy Sean O'Keefe, and commissioned on 10 December 1994, with Commander George Kasten in command. (references) |
| USS Hartford grounding |
On 25 October 2003 Hartford (SSN-768), a United States Navy nuclear powered Los Angeles-class submarine ran aground while performing routine maneuvers in the harbour of La Maddalena, Sardinia. Approximately 9 million dollars worth of damage were done to the submarine, and it was out of service for seven months. A report into accident revealed that basic navigation errors combined with equipment failures were to blame for the submarine running into the rocky shallows. (references) |
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