A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut

Experience Hartford's unique history with twelve historical tours of the capital city of Connecticut.

Discover the homes of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Nook Farm, a progressive section of Asylum Hill that was home to a community of influential writers, politicians and social activists.

Walk the grounds of the Colt Armory, where Samuel Colt established his revolutionary firearm-manufacturing enterprise.

Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields an...