The doors of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, built in 1865. Click on them for more great photos of Hartford by Karen O'Maxfield.

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Postcards from Hartford, an occasionally updated collection of antique postcards.

Hartford 'Firsts' and Other Interesting Facts, compiled by Greg Secord.

Hartford Mayors: a complete list of everyone who served, including their years of service and party affiliation.

Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about Hartford history.

Information on Adriaen's Landing, the just-begun development along the Connecticut River. "Adriaen" refers to important figure in Hartford history. Who was he? Find out.

Hartford CT, a song of the 1944 circus fire performed by a New York City band.

A Historic Cemetery Wins New Friends, a New York Times article on the Friends of the Old South Burying Ground, a neighborhood group formed to protect an 18th-century cemetery in the South End. Published Nov. 26, 2000.

The Hartford Circus Fire, a resource page on the fire that swept through a performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the city's north end in July 1944, leaving 167 dead.

Scape Artist, a New York Times review of a biography on Frederick Law Olmsted, the Hartford native who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.

Hartford's Chinese Community, a paper from Trinity College sophomore Stephen Brown on Hartford's connections to China, which date to the 19th century.

'Local Actress Weds H. DeF. Bogart, Actor,' an article about Humphrey Bogart getting married in Hartford in 1928. By Kevin Flood, published in the Journal Inquirer newspaper of Manchester on April 3, 1999.

'Structures and Styles' of Hartford Architecture, an article on a book, written by Gregory Andrews and David Ransom, that guides readers on neighborhood-by-neighborhood "walking tours" of Hartford architecture. By Kevin Flood, published in the Journal Inquirer on April 14, 1989.

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