Morse College - my father went there after he graduated high school in 1950. He then got a job at the defunct Seth Thomas clocks in Thomaston, worked there for a month and then was drafted into the army and sent to Korea.
Great video! Tragically, the Hotel Hartford was the site of the 1964 slaying of Hartford Police Officer Henry Jennings who was staked out awaiting the return to a hotel room the suspect in the nonfatal shooting of another Hartford officer who hours earlier had interrupted an overnight burglary of a store on Asylum Street.
I read somewhere recently that the Pride of Hartford is being restored in Maine and is eventually going to Jay Leno's collection. I hope you get to do a history of the Hartford Fire Department at some point.
Could the present day Hartford look any worse than the classic buildings that were torn down? as the song goes....'put up a parking lot' City planners of the 20th century must have flunked out of school.
I’m trying to find out about a Ford’s market in Hartford. The owner owned the house at 1123 Windsor Avenue in Windsor which was called Ford’s mansion. The house was build by the Cooks who also had a market in Hartford. Thanks
Doing a quick newspaper search I discovered that George R. Ford was vice-president and general manager of the Hartford Market Company which opened at 613 Main Street in 1905. He was elected president of the Windsor Trust & Safe Deposit Company in 1924. This is a photo of Ford driving a horse and sleigh down Charter Oak Place (the horse was a famous trotter Ford had purchased): ctda-dev1-lib.grove.ad.uconn.edu/node/1290664
Very cool! Thanks for posting your awesome content!
Thank you very much for watching!
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Dan: Another great video! You did a great job with your presentation for the 1892 Club! 😊
Thank you!
Morse College - my father went there after he graduated high school in 1950. He then got a job at the defunct Seth Thomas clocks in Thomaston, worked there for a month and then was drafted into the army and sent to Korea.
thank you Dan. I wish that more history remained instead of parking lots. im a child of the 60s.
Another awesome job, I had always wondered where H.F.D. Company #4 was located prior to moving into Pearl St. HQ. Beautiful fire station.
Thanks!
Great video!
Tragically, the Hotel Hartford was the site of the 1964 slaying of Hartford Police Officer Henry Jennings who was staked out awaiting the return to a hotel room the suspect in the nonfatal shooting of another Hartford officer who hours earlier had interrupted an overnight burglary of a store on Asylum Street.
I read somewhere recently that the Pride of Hartford is being restored in Maine and is eventually going to Jay Leno's collection. I hope you get to do a history of the Hartford Fire Department at some point.
I hope people get to see it some day.
Could the present day Hartford look any worse than the classic buildings that were torn down? as the song goes....'put up a parking lot' City planners of the 20th century must have flunked out of school.
I’m trying to find out about a Ford’s market in Hartford. The owner owned the house at 1123 Windsor Avenue in Windsor which was called Ford’s mansion. The house was build by the Cooks who also had a market in Hartford. Thanks
Doing a quick newspaper search I discovered that George R. Ford was vice-president and general manager of the Hartford Market Company which opened at 613 Main Street in 1905. He was elected president of the Windsor Trust & Safe Deposit Company in 1924. This is a photo of Ford driving a horse and sleigh down Charter Oak Place (the horse was a famous trotter Ford had purchased): ctda-dev1-lib.grove.ad.uconn.edu/node/1290664
@@historywithdansterner263 Many thanks. The Sage Park track wasn’t very far from the Ford Mansion 1123 Windsor Ave in Windsor