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The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company ( HSB) is a global specialty insurer and reinsurer headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. It was founded in 1866 and is the largest provider of equipment breakdown insurance and related inspection services in North America serving over five million commercial locations. [citation needed]
August 28, 2003. The Allen Place–Lincoln Street Historic District encompasses a small neighborhood of late 19th-century housing built for white-collar service workers in southern Hartford, Connecticut. It is roughly bounded by Madison, Washington, and Vernon Streets, and Zion Hill Cemetery, and has well-preserved examples of vernacular Queen ...
Colt Armory, original East Armory in 1857. The armory was built on a 260-acre (110 ha) site beginning in 1855. Low-lying, often flooded meadows were set off from the river by a 2-mile (3.2 km) dike and drained. The dike and earliest armory buildings were completed in 1855, and Colt's mansion Armsmear was constructed the following year on a hill ...
1985 May 21 – Overhead Door Corporation cuts back operations at their original manufacturing plant in Hartford City. The plant would be closed in 2000. 1990s. 1993 – Hartford City and Indiana University golfer Erika Wicoff is Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year. Wicoff eventually becomes a professional golfer.
Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Products. Automobiles. Production output. 4,732 (1904-1914) 1914 advertisement for Pope-Hartford automobiles. The Pope-Hartford was one of the automobile marques of the Pope Manufacturing Company founded by Colonel Albert A. Pope, and was a manufacturer of Brass Era automobiles in Hartford between 1904 and ...
Bulkeley Bridge, circa 1906-1916. Pratt & Whitney Factory, 1940. On July 6, 1944, Hartford was the scene of one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire, which occurred at a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, became known as the Hartford Circus Fire .
Length. 62 miles (100 km) (main line) 79 miles (127 km) (including branches) The Hartford and New Haven Railroad ( H&NH ), chartered in 1833, was the first railroad built in the state of Connecticut and an important direct predecessor of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (the New Haven). The company was formed to connect the cities ...
Allen was born in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut on April 18, 1891. He attended Norwich University and graduated from Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army in the First World War. In 1916 he rode with General Pershing in the expedition into Mexico pursuing rebel Pancho Villa. He married Ruby Tuttle (1894–1992) on December 13, 1916.