The Mark Twain House
Headquarters Old Map of Hartford
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Mark Twain House and
Museum
The Mark Twain House and Museum was
the home of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel
Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in
Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Before 1874,
Twain had lived in Hannibal, Missouri. The
house is also notable for the major works
written during his residency, including The
Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Saw-
yer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the
Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp
Abroad, and A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court.
Twain’s home in Hartford functioned as a
school, an apartment building, as well as a
library. In 1962 the building was declared a
National Historic Landmark. Since 1974 it
has had a multi-million dollar renovation
and an expansion dedicated to showcasing
his life and work.
The Wadsworth Atheneum
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The Wadsworth Athene-
um
The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest
public art museum in the United States,
with significant holdings of French
and American Impressionist paintings,
Hudson River School landscapes, mod-
ernist masterpieces and contemporary
works, as well as extensive holdings in
early American furniture and decora-
tive arts.
The Wadsworth, as it is most com-
monly known, was constructed on
the site of the family home of Daniel
Wadsworth (1771–1848) in the heart
of downtown Hartford. The first col-
lection consisted of 78 paintings, two
marble busts, one portrait miniature,
and one bronze sculpture.
The Wadsworth has also been uti-
lized since its beginning as a place for
dramatic and dance performances,
exhibits of historical artifacts, social
functions, and benefits.
Aetna, Inc.
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Insurance Capital of the History
World After Dutch explorer Adriaen Block
visited the area in 1614, fur traders from
Evolving from an early agricultural
the New Netherland colony set up trade
economy in the 18th century, Hartford
at Fort Goede Hoop (Good Hope) at the
grew into an important trading center
confluence of the Connecticut and Park
on the Connecticut River. Molasses,
Rivers as early as 1623, but abandoned
spices, coffee and rum were distributed
their post by 1654. The first English
from warehouses in the city's thriving
settlers arrived in 1635 and their settle-
merchant district. Ships set sail from
ment was originally called Newtown,
Hartford to England, the West Indies and
but was renamed Hartford in 1637.
the Far East. Merchants were concerned
Starting in the late 1950s the suburbs
about risks to this thriving trade, with
of Hartford grew while the capital city
fires, pirates, storms and accidents always
began a long decline. Many residents
a threat. The insurance industry was cre-
moved out of the city and into the
ated when groups of merchants began to
suburbs, and this trend continues. Dur-
share these risks. The practice was for-
ing the 1980s, Hartford experienced an
malized with the creation of the Hartford
economic boom of sorts and by the late
Fire Insurance Group in 1810. Hartford
1980s, almost a dozen new skyscrapers
became the home of many of the nation's
were proposed to be built in the city's
largest insurance companies, such as
downtown. In the past few years, devel-
Aetna and Travelers, and is known today
opment, both commercial and residen-
as the Insurance Capital of the World.
tial, has increased downtown.

Weather and Climate
Hartford lies in the Humid continental
climate zone. Summers are typically hot and
muggy by New England standards, while
winters are typically cold with frequent
snowfall. Hartford typically receives about 45
inches (114 cm) of snow in an average win-
ter the record seasonal snowfall was 115.2
inches (293 cm) during the winter of 1995–
1996. The first snowfall typically occurs in
mid to late November and the last snow
of the season usually occurs in late March,
although accumulating snow has occurred as
early as late September and as late as mid-
May in extreme events. During the summer,
temperatures often exceed 90 °F (32 °C), and
do so on an average of 18 days per year. Con-
versely, winter temperatures dip to 0 °F (−18
°C) on 5 nights per year. Thunderstorms
are common during the summer months
since the frontal boundary that separates the
tropical air mass from colder air to the north
moves back and forth over the city.
Famous people born or lived Hartford is the capital city of the
Hartford, Connecticut
in Hartford U.S. state of Connecticut.
• J.P. Morgan, (1837-1913), American
financier, industrialist and savior of the It is located in Hartford County on the Con-
1907 panic. necticut River, north of the center of the state, 24
miles (39 km) south of Springfield, Massachu-
• Samuel Colt (1814-1862) Inventor setts. Its 2006 population was 124,512. Hart-
ford ranks as the state's third-largest city, after
New England’s Rising Star
• Eric Mangini, (b. 1971) former head Bridgeport and New Haven, 40 miles (64 km) to
coach Cleveland Browns, former head the south and the sixth largest in New England.
coach of the New York Jets Greater Hartford is also the largest metro area
in Connecticut, and 45th largest in the coun-
• Mark Twain (1835–1910), moved to try (2006 census estimate) with a metropolitan
Hartford in 1874 and lived in Hartford for population of 1,188,841.
a number of years.
Nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World",
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811–1896), Hartford houses many of the world's insurance
originally from Litchfield, settled in Hart- company headquarters, and insurance remains
ford during the 1870s. Her Nook Farm the region's major industry. Almost 400 years
home is open to the public and adjoins old, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the
Mark Twain's. United States, and following the American Civil
War, Hartford took the mantle of the country's
• Wallace Stevens, (1879–1955), the wealthiest city from New Orleans. In 1868, Mark
poet, was an insurance executive in Hart- Twain wrote, "Of all the beautiful towns it has
ford. been my fortune to see this is the chief."
• Katharine Hepburn, (1907–2003), Hartford is home to the nation's oldest public
actress, was born in Hartford and lived on art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the old-
both Hawthorne and Laurel Street. She est public park (Bushnell Park), the oldest con-
is buried in the Hepburn family plot in tinuously published newspaper (The Hartford
Cedar Hill Cemetery in the city. Courant), the second-oldest secondary school
• (Hartford Public), and until its closure in 2009,
• Noah Webster (1758–1843) diction- the sixth-oldest opera company in the nation
ary author (Connecticut Opera).
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