Old World Hartford, CONNECTicut, Oldest Photographs, Brick Angles, Capital, Castles, New England

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  • @charlottemoorebutler3376
    @charlottemoorebutler3376 3 роки тому +50

    I was born in Hartford in the 1940's and all those old buildings are so dear to my heart. I love the city of Hartford Connecticut and all of New England. Thanks for this video!

    • @3rd-eye-neenja563
      @3rd-eye-neenja563 2 роки тому +1

      think about it,, they where unburying those buildings from dirt and mud,,,not building them.

    • @janpickren850
      @janpickren850 4 місяці тому

      Almost all those old buildings in Hartford have been long torn down

  • @dianealbrecht496
    @dianealbrecht496 2 роки тому +6

    CT native here. The architecture in Hartford is beautiful. Glorious old city!

  • @dennismanary5537
    @dennismanary5537 3 роки тому +23

    So few people and the building are gigantic!! The whole town can fit in one room!!!!

  • @peteypete1984
    @peteypete1984 3 роки тому +73

    I live in Hartford I’m so glad someone in community is covering it. I walk home from work everyday and for the last year or so my walk home has been so mind blowing even though I’ve walked a million time before. The capital building and the one across from it are amazing the capital has amazing Cymatics patterns on the windows too 👍🔮🌲🌳🗿❤️🙏✌️

    • @rebeccaringler1265
      @rebeccaringler1265 2 роки тому +7

      We were conditioned to blindly trust and not ask questions. Two times in my life over 30 years ago I was amazed at a golden age house and grounds in Indiana. Also a huge building in Washington, DC. Like how did they build it. We had no basis to make sense of these things, but at least we know they are lying to us now.

    • @stevenkimbrough696
      @stevenkimbrough696 2 роки тому +3

      Yes! The State Building and the Bushnell are interesting, too! Definite evidence of a mudflood in that whole area. Trinity College is awesome. I started looking into the history of it and found things that did not make sense.

  • @mikehunt8375
    @mikehunt8375 3 роки тому +39

    What's always amazed me is how did they heat these massive buildings, huge windows right next to each other, high ceilings, and no insulation like we have today, single pain windows!?? We tear them down because we cant afford to, so what were they REALLY doing back then? Winter is LONG and brutal up here!

    • @nickd713
      @nickd713 3 роки тому +8

      Do some research into radium

    • @nickd713
      @nickd713 3 роки тому +2

      There are a few videos on channels like these that talk about it that I've seen, been awhile though and I can't supply a link

    • @brianc9642
      @brianc9642 3 роки тому +4

      Coal, followed by heating oil was abundant and cheap. People, especially comfortable or wealthy wore generally heavy clothing.

    • @cha2117
      @cha2117 3 роки тому +5

      We wore thick underclothes used blankets had hot rocks in our pockets lit fires curtains round beds to keep drafts out. Used the fireplace in the pub and used hot water bottles to heat the bed and blankets and Tallow grass for lanterns she had one in the book little house in the prairie work was more physical with washing etc but they did less they just sat and read bible and did sewing etc they don't go for runs and six hours in the gym or stuff like that. Doesn't mean there isn''t other stuff we don't know about as a lot was either not popular or dangerous or no profit in it.

    • @rebeccaringler1265
      @rebeccaringler1265 2 роки тому +11

      Free energy connected to red mercury and it had to do with water, canals, frequency, all hidden from us. A device has been removed from the bell towers and I forget what it is called.

  • @Aaron.Davis56
    @Aaron.Davis56 2 роки тому +8

    That circus fire brings back memories. My mother and grandmother survived that event. She was brought to Hartford in 1940 at the age of 4 from Alabama. I think it's on Barbour Street, now the Fred D. Wish School site

    • @tonyspada2744
      @tonyspada2744 2 місяці тому

      My mother lived on Barbour St. She was only 8 during the circus fire and my grandmother decided not to go that day.

  • @reptilemark7346
    @reptilemark7346 3 роки тому +14

    As i learned more about ancient buildings i began to love walking through hartford. Been here all my life, I know im the only one who takes heed to all the antiquitech. Its beautiful at night time

    • @elisascottcobbsmyprofile2317
      @elisascottcobbsmyprofile2317 2 роки тому +2

      You not the only one! I was born and raised in Hartford and I've always been fond of of our old historical buildings😁

    • @stevenkimbrough696
      @stevenkimbrough696 2 роки тому

      You two aren't the only ones! I've lived in Hartford most of my life, still do, and love looking at the architecture here, remarking at the hidden history and antiquitech :)

  • @coryanderson8990
    @coryanderson8990 3 роки тому +43

    I am shaking getting ready to watch. I was born in Hartford. Lived 5 buildings down from Capital on same street. Explored all buildings remaining that are "important". Look up Nathaniel Palmer Mystic "Antarctica". Thank you

    • @brendalee1265
      @brendalee1265 3 роки тому +7

      Wow I live on the corner of Capitol Avenue and Lawrence Street for many many years born and raised in Hartford and still in Hartford

    • @MarlieAstra
      @MarlieAstra 3 роки тому +1

      So why are you shaking?

    • @coryanderson8990
      @coryanderson8990 3 роки тому +5

      @@MarlieAstra seeing information that hasn't been altered is hard to find. Might be a earthquake. Not sure :)

  • @ramon_thewrestlingfan91712
    @ramon_thewrestlingfan91712 2 роки тому +4

    I've lived in Hartford all my life. Thank you for the video. Learning new things about my hometown.

  • @jthepickle7
    @jthepickle7 3 роки тому +27

    I was born in Hartford, had a paper route when I was 12 - delivering the Hartford Courant, America's oldest newspaper.
    The Mark Twain House can still toured. When I was a kid I went on a tour of this house and saw a fireplace on the main floor that had a full sized window just above the fireplace! I remember looking to see how the smoke got out - still a mystery to me.

    • @brendalee1265
      @brendalee1265 3 роки тому +4

      My brother was a newspaper boy for the Hartford Courant in the late 60s early 70s

    • @Saaf62
      @Saaf62 3 роки тому +3

      radium heater?

    • @johnhart8373
      @johnhart8373 4 місяці тому +1

      No steam Conduit run under the buildings steam comes from the Hartford steam company it’s one of the most efficient types of heat at least that’s my understanding

  • @cjstarmonkey73
    @cjstarmonkey73 3 роки тому +12

    I like your open approach and not using catch phrases or unfounded claims like many do

    • @FRESHboosters
      @FRESHboosters  3 роки тому +7

      Thank you CJ! I’m trying my best to share new insights without pushing unproven claims. I’m always really happy to see those viewers who understand that

  • @stankygeorge
    @stankygeorge 3 роки тому +27

    13:54 that exact pyramid can be found throughout America!
    17:00, that is an odd selection of characters on that impressive fountain!
    Red bricks, red bricks, I have seen the exact, same red brick, in every town and city from red brick coast to red brick coast and everywhere in between, as a Military Brat and 18 Wheeler. Seeing them and those fantastic court houses etc. I always wondered how/why everyone across America built out of the same damned red brick and why the style of the government buildings were so impressive. I have also, watched them tear them down, in the name of progress, of course!
    We are not inheritors, we are conquerors; when the Europeans came to the America's they slaughtered the survivors, who had not fully recovered from the last 'Whatever Event', the buildings and infrastructure was already in place!
    I think one reason there were so many devastating fires was due to the old world buildings generated their own power, that, the Conquerors did not know how to harness, so the buildings short circuited or exploded from power surges.
    Great video!

    • @vicnoid1
      @vicnoid1 3 роки тому +3

      This comment was featured on a wooden nickels video I saw today , but it was make before your comment posted, did u post this exact comment on another platform ?

    • @ireen1962
      @ireen1962 3 роки тому +9

      The more you see and know , the more questions 😁. I am from the Netherlands and are awake just for 5 years. In my own country (the old world😊) I am discovering so much. In my own village (6000 inhabitants) my churchtower shows the year J662 😳, not 1662. (Sadly I cannot post a photo) So do we have lost some 800-1000 years ? Big questions.

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 3 роки тому +1

      @@ireen1962 was does the j stand for? Thank you

    • @bugzyhardrada3168
      @bugzyhardrada3168 3 роки тому +3

      the Dutch word for year is jaar
      And the letter "j" is newest addition to our westernized alphabet

    • @ireenarends5860
      @ireenarends5860 3 роки тому +2

      @@maggiemae7539 de J means "the Year of Christ" , sometimes they used the " I " which means the same .

  • @stephiis8882
    @stephiis8882 2 роки тому +13

    Before learning of Tartaria, I used to ride around Hartford with my head down, looking at all the modern chaos. Now, I look up at the amazing old buildings that look so beautiful and out of place that they make the new city around them look like the aftermath of some apocalypse...or perhaps a Great Reset, maybe? Thanks for the vid!

    • @stevenkimbrough696
      @stevenkimbrough696 2 роки тому

      Right?! I almost get into accidents just gawking at the architecture with fresh eyes.

    • @AnActualCoconut
      @AnActualCoconut Рік тому

      Lot of domes js

  • @barbaraghiroli8246
    @barbaraghiroli8246 3 роки тому +12

    I was born in Hartford 🌻wow, thanks for your analysis. I never hear much about Connecticut. Its a very underestimated state in my opinion.

  • @traceysheedy3384
    @traceysheedy3384 3 роки тому +12

    My great grand uncle was a mason on the capitol. My great great grandfather built the retaining wall on the ford street side of the park river. He built and owned the first 20 houses on franklin avenue. He built most of the fine houses in hartford whose foundations were stone cut by other of my relatives at the portland quarry. Many irish masons came to Hartford from Clonmel, Tipperary Ireland.

    • @simonh6371
      @simonh6371 2 роки тому

      Apparently according to these Tartaria tards that isn't true, they say that our forefathers were primitive and stupid and couldn't build these, they were built by giants thousands of years before. Lmfao.

  • @tae9399
    @tae9399 3 роки тому +12

    Awesome video! I live in Hartford Connecticut currently on the border of Wethersfield and I love learning about the history of the city and state. Super informative!

  • @teresaadams825
    @teresaadams825 3 роки тому +14

    Awesome research! As a child, I always was in awe of Yale's gothic buildings and Bridgeport was like Gotham city

  • @QuestionTheAnswers
    @QuestionTheAnswers 3 роки тому +13

    Woah..RADICAL.
    Gonna be a great night,Now.. Jarid Boosters uploaded..👍🤔💯
    Whole house loves and watches You my Brother..

  • @crownedwithfaith
    @crownedwithfaith 3 роки тому +14

    I'm from Hartford, thank you for covering the city! ❤️

    • @stevenkimbrough696
      @stevenkimbrough696 2 роки тому

      Same here! There's a lot of interesting stuff in our city. It's cool to have somebody in this community take notice!

  • @law3062
    @law3062 3 роки тому +15

    I live 10 min. outside of Hartford and was recently there taking pics of the buildings. At 13:17 you can see the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch. You can also see a bridge with 4 arches visible and a canal running through. When I was walking toward what used to be the arched bridge and canal (never knew that until this vid), I noticed the top couple inches of 2 of the arches under the bridge. Now ground level is at the top of the bridge arches and there is no canal.

    • @livi9724
      @livi9724 2 роки тому

      Research mud flood evidence on you tube, a lot of old buildings carry the evidence

  • @hounddog410amms
    @hounddog410amms 2 роки тому +5

    I am from Hartford and there were pictures I have never seen. Thanks for the history lesson!

  • @dipsydoodle
    @dipsydoodle 3 роки тому +12

    Thanks Jared. It’s good to see another city for a change. I’ve seen so many of the other cities that had worlds fairs in them. I’ve seen those pictures over and over again. This was refreshing as well as beautiful 🤩

  • @creationsongmusical2663
    @creationsongmusical2663 Рік тому +1

    My grandmother was at the circus when the tent burned down in 1944 with my father when he was a baby. On the site today, a school has been built (Fred Wish School)

    • @Greenwings701
      @Greenwings701 7 місяців тому

      The circus was at the site of a former junior high. My mother lived on Barbour St. and thought her school was burning when the engines came roaring by. The kids would chase the engines as they moved slowly back then. Horrible tragedy, mostly children perished. The animal cages were blocking the entrances/exits. No animals died, however.

  • @MariannaKatz17
    @MariannaKatz17 Рік тому +1

    One of my forefathers was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, William Hills.Thanks for covering this. I wasn't paying attention to stuff like this when I was a kid-the last time I was in Hartford. I look forward to going back.

  • @nplaza888
    @nplaza888 3 роки тому +31

    I live in Waterbury Connecticut and we have a lot of old world buildings around. Most of the churches look like the first floor sank into the group. St Anne's church on south main street is from the old world and it just had its steeples removed. They're in the process of defacing it.

    • @NaciAtYerGrave
      @NaciAtYerGrave 3 роки тому +1

      Oh yeah I’ve noticed that too! Interesting to know that Connecticut has so much history

    • @FOX488-q2m
      @FOX488-q2m 2 роки тому

      I noticed that here in the UK during the 1990’s there seemed to be a fashion for removing church steeples! Churches with their steeples removed look really wrong!

  • @xtbum3339
    @xtbum3339 3 роки тому +9

    Hartford was a world-class city in the late 1800's. A center of industry, insurance, literature, etc

  • @vstpluginsonicxtc
    @vstpluginsonicxtc 2 роки тому +4

    Please remember that Hartford is considered the insurance capital of America. The insurance industry is one of the most powerful and could explain some of the gaps of published history.

    • @alexarobinson2850
      @alexarobinson2850 9 місяців тому

      I know that many of those insurance companies even have their own internal historians

  • @edwinrodriguez4729
    @edwinrodriguez4729 2 роки тому +4

    Shout out to Miss O for being an Awesome History teacher of CT especially Hartford. You inspired me to learn more about our Hometown 💙

  • @erichhitchcock3368
    @erichhitchcock3368 3 роки тому +4

    At 1:37, that image is the Ithaca, NY area....??. (Googled CT Hill). My earliest ancestor, Luke Hitchcock, settled in nearby Old Wethersfield in the 1640's. Supposedly, the Charter Oak was on my family's property. Thanks for doing this!

  • @pammatiti
    @pammatiti 3 роки тому +7

    Thats just crazy there are so many gaps in the history. Many places in the USA, and the rest of the world have these old world buildings and many gaps there too. One would think the Native Americans would have noted in their legends about these buildings. ???? It's just too weird.

  • @susandoerr3896
    @susandoerr3896 3 роки тому +6

    I was from a surrounding town and at holiday we would go to the department store. G Foxes which had up to 11 floors of shopping, Santa hung out i think on the 7th floor. My mother would shop and they would put the packages aside and when leaving in the car there was a pick up point and she would then collect her purchases. So much fun each year.

  • @lotus30388
    @lotus30388 3 роки тому +6

    Your videos are amazing. Thank you!

  • @Martin-se3ij
    @Martin-se3ij 3 роки тому +12

    The original Hartford is in Essex UK. There is a statue there of the pilgrim who emigrated to the US. The name comes from the place being a "ford" in the river which deer ("hart") used for crossing. Hart-ford.

    • @unknownkingdom
      @unknownkingdom 2 роки тому

      Not true

    • @Martin-se3ij
      @Martin-se3ij 2 роки тому +1

      @@unknownkingdom Not sure which part in "not true". I've been to the village of Hartford in Essex, I've got a photo of myself next to the statue of the pilgrim. The name Hartford is from the ford where deer crossed the river and the ford and the river are there to be seen. Prey tell where you think Hartford CT got it's name.

  • @jennkmaxx
    @jennkmaxx 3 роки тому +7

    Only lived in Hartford for 2 years next to Elizabeth Park, but the history and old buildings absolutely intrigued me! I loved going for runs to enjoy the historical homes. I worked in the repurposed, Old Colt Armory building mentioned at 4:40 for an insurance company. Apparently the blue dome helped to ward off enemies during world wars because it made it look like a religious building. I currently now work for The Hartford insurance company mentioned at 19:51, which also has a lot of history. Thank you for creating this video!

  • @tonyspada2744
    @tonyspada2744 2 місяці тому

    I was born in Hartford and grew up in East Hartford right across the River. Nice job on the old photos. I love the architecture and similarities that you pointed out. The Arches,turrets etc. That make the buildings seem in harmony.
    Wish you could do a piece on the parks. Elizabeth Park and my fave Wickham Park in Manchester has a great history that I looked into a few years ago.
    Thanks again 😊

  • @scottthomas3672
    @scottthomas3672 2 роки тому +1

    I lived on South Whitney St in 2010. Little did I know that one Howard Stern's first stations locations was originally right down the St fro my apt. Lots of history from Farmington into the City.

  • @lvlheadedrebel
    @lvlheadedrebel 3 роки тому +4

    Loved this video, nice work! Born here and currently living here.

  • @skullasylum33
    @skullasylum33 3 роки тому +24

    5 seconds in that arch mind boggling..brilliant buildings mud streets 😏

  • @tiananunez2178
    @tiananunez2178 2 роки тому +3

    I wasborn in hartford we have amazing history that's very unknown from the natives to the slaves the older buildings here are beautiful and amazing when I was a kid the city was beautiful it breaks my heart to look out the window now our politicians pull money away from hartford it's nit taken care of ppl aren't educated on the importance of taking care if home this documentation melted my heart ❤️ I love the beat I see potential I hope we can restore its beauty and honor our city again

  • @philipcone357
    @philipcone357 3 роки тому +5

    You haven’t done your research. Hartford was huge in the 17th century. Hartford extended from Bolton Noch in the East to West of West Hartford and from Windsor to Middletown. But a lot of the histories were absorbed into the towns. William Pitkin was Governor in the 1760’s and we learn about him in East Hartford. During the Revolution the Governor was Trumbull and he had his own office of the Revolution and he and the Pitkins provided much of the gunpowder for Washington. Hartford did serious shrinking land wise as churches were established East of the Connecticut River, and south, north and west of the city. Hartford in the Civil War you had the Colt Armory and the Secretary of the Navy was Gideon Welles from Glastonbury.

  • @illumencouk
    @illumencouk 2 роки тому +1

    Note the graveyard scene @ 15:39. These graves apparently could range from 1650 - 1900, with the majority being mid nineteenth century. My local graveyard is visually identical to this, excluding the headstone's on bricks of course. Why do I feel that there is a distinct lack of Christian crosses in graveyards supposedly filled with Christians?

  • @antuanhobbs4140
    @antuanhobbs4140 3 роки тому +2

    Good stuff 👏🏽. Makes you ask more questions

  • @vermili0n
    @vermili0n 10 місяців тому

    Cool video, I love researching the history of places I’ve lived. I’ve lived in western ma/central ct my whole life. New England history is awesome

  • @grahampilkington252
    @grahampilkington252 2 роки тому +7

    It’s a shame that this destruction of old world architecture was destroyed deliberately all around the world. All claimed as fire or earthquakes.
    There is a reason for this deceit.
    These buildings were and are far superior than anything built today.

  • @TheFineLine920
    @TheFineLine920 3 роки тому +4

    This is insane! Well done! Absolutely great information!
    Thank You! New to your channel & I’m in! Subscribed!
    ☮️

  • @use100ame
    @use100ame 3 роки тому +17

    Hartford was once the wealthiest city in the US. Now it endlessly searches for an identity which it can't seem to find. Why not The Gilded City, which at least tells us something of what all the fuss is about, even if the age is long past.

    • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Місяць тому

      It was arguably the wealthiest city around 1920. It's been downhill since then. Now the City of Hartford is a good place to avoid IMHO.

  • @petestevens3970
    @petestevens3970 2 роки тому

    From the Upper Mississippi Valley here; amazing video, amazing & important history does Hartford possess.
    Thank you.

  • @shaskaone
    @shaskaone 2 роки тому +1

    At 3:04 it’s like they still depicted the fully build city and tower hidden in the background on that rocky bay. Just a thought

  • @bunnyfoofoo9695
    @bunnyfoofoo9695 Рік тому +1

    Those huge buildings with one dome on top make you know the domes are individual Wycliffe towers for each building.

  • @brianburns7211
    @brianburns7211 Рік тому

    Nice subject. I grew up in a Hartford suburb, but had an ancestor who founded it in the party with Thomas Hooker.

  • @tiredironrepair
    @tiredironrepair 3 роки тому +3

    14:36 look at that super tall tower in the background. I cant tell if it's closer down the street and just seems so tall or if it's actually in the distance which would make it really tall.

  • @ForeverConsciousResearch
    @ForeverConsciousResearch 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent work here...great presentation and panning. Thank you for sharing. Just subscribed after watching a few of your videos
    All the best

  • @edwardj3988
    @edwardj3988 3 роки тому +3

    Excellent. In the 1980s, I had the contract to relocate the Isle of Safety from Central Row (see minute 20:58) to another location. It did not happen and the contract was cancelled.

    • @elisascottcobbsmyprofile2317
      @elisascottcobbsmyprofile2317 2 роки тому

      As soon as I seen it I screamed " The isle of safety! "😁

    • @gerryayotte9292
      @gerryayotte9292 10 місяців тому

      The Isle of Safety was moved and restored and is now at the CT Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT. She looks beautiful.

  • @libertybell7145
    @libertybell7145 2 роки тому +1

    Absolutely Beautiful Photos of Gorgeous Buildings!!! By far most of the buildings in your video, especially the first part of the video, are what's called Tartarian architecture. These buidlings often do look somewhat like Greco-Roman architecture.....however, all of these buildings were built Centuries ago. These buildings are from hundred of years ago. They are built Far Better than the buildings of today. In fact, architects and builders Cannot build them today......we do not have the materials, the skills, or the equipment necessary to build these. You yourself noticed that years go by and the historical record goes blank and then comes back and shows more buildings. No photos exist that record the actual construction of the buildings.....they just show up. The fact is that these buildings were there in the first place....just not shown until years later after each of the "blank" periods.

  • @MrMoparbob498
    @MrMoparbob498 3 роки тому +2

    Jarid, that was some very cool old pic's you managed to get put together, awesome job -- it's unbelievable the amount of old world architecture -& infrastructure that was still usable after whatever cataclysmic event that took place
    🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻

  • @dennismanary5537
    @dennismanary5537 3 роки тому +2

    That big crazy snow plow manufactured in new york!! Wow

  • @branden2316
    @branden2316 3 роки тому +4

    23:15 It might just be me but when you look at the building on the right it looks like the date 1881 and it looks purposefully designed because you would be able to see it from more than one angle.

  • @cherier152
    @cherier152 3 роки тому +5

    It didn't look as though the buildings had been mud flooded. Also, I was surprised to see the Native Americans statues on the fountain. Hmmmmmm. Great video! Thank you for your time to put this together.

  • @snoo333
    @snoo333 3 роки тому +1

    what is the music @23:38. love the music with the photos. i need to visit. Some of those building look like they catered to Giants. The shops were a long smaller people (us).
    Connecticut could also stand for Connection-Cut? What connection are they referring to?
    I know the name is a Indian name. its spelling is important. maybe.

  • @edwinrodriguez4729
    @edwinrodriguez4729 2 роки тому

    Enjoyed this documentary very much. I'm born and raised in Hartford. Last born from Mt Sinai

  • @simplechrisc
    @simplechrisc Місяць тому

    Love your identification of the architecture. Living in CT all my life and being kind of a war history guy, Hartford and Bridgeport was known as the arms capitals of the nation between the Colt factory in Hartford and Remington Arms in Bridgeport. The earliest Colt 45 revolvers and the Colt 1911 45s used by all our soldiers in WW2 have their origins here. And don’t forget Mark Twain!

  • @raypratt3611
    @raypratt3611 3 роки тому +1

    At 5:56 the date on top of that bank sure looks like AD 1374 or maybe even AD I 374??

  • @Aaron.Davis56
    @Aaron.Davis56 2 роки тому

    G Fox's photo brought back memories. The Christmas display was the bomb back then. Shoot out to Brown Thompson, E J Korvettes, Strand, Allen, EM Loew's theaters. Grants, JJ Newbury was my spot. Remember taking the bus back home from the Isle of Safety. So much in your photos that I enjoyed reminiscing.

  • @thegoodthebadtheugly22
    @thegoodthebadtheugly22 2 роки тому +3

    Im a carpenter in Australia. Love ya work. I think the word you were looking for is "pitch" in regards to the angle of the roof. The pitch is the angle of the roof.

  • @mareerogers364
    @mareerogers364 2 роки тому

    Thanks for this gem!

  • @davidverry9214
    @davidverry9214 2 роки тому +2

    A few years ago I was reading some letters written by mark twain. After near bankruptcy he made a good living traveling throughout the US and overseas as a lecturer/ humorist, ( I guess today he’d be considered a standup comic). He considered Hartford the most beautiful city in the US. Wish I could give you the source of these writings but I don’t remember where I found them.

  • @TicklesMikeHawk
    @TicklesMikeHawk 3 роки тому +8

    Speaking of Ringling. You might have a look into the ringling mansion/museum in Florida. The Ca' d'Zan in particular. The place is mind blowing!

    • @jewelscash8752
      @jewelscash8752 3 роки тому +2

      Yes museum and grounds spectacular. I once went in the off season and had the place almost to myself. Attended a "VIP" wedding there- memory of a lifetime. Nowadays I would view it with a different lens, observing old world power etc.

  • @rueporter2253
    @rueporter2253 3 роки тому +2

    With what little we can see about the architecture, it looks amazing. I am interested .

  • @oopatube
    @oopatube 2 роки тому +1

    Only one shot of the Aetna building..also the governers foot guard building is pretty old as well.

  • @kevincarter413
    @kevincarter413 2 роки тому

    Thank you I really learned a lot about my hometown. I appreciate it 👍🏿

  • @michaelstiller2282
    @michaelstiller2282 2 роки тому +3

    The trolley system was ripped apart. Sadly. You can still find the rails out in the woods. Gasoline companies lobbied to have them not just abandoned but removed, just so no one got the idea to reuse it later in history.

    • @DMartinov
      @DMartinov 2 роки тому

      And that’s how America went from having such beautiful lively cities to being forced to commute from suburbs

  • @markmalasics3413
    @markmalasics3413 8 місяців тому

    14:00 The Mark Howard Monument in Cedar Hill Cemetery, still stands today.
    17:00 The Corning Statue, Bushnell Park, still stands today.
    17:42 Statue of Samuel Colt, Colt Park
    18:05 Samuel Colt Memorial
    24:50 Interior of the Church of The Good Shepherd, 155 Wyllys Street, still stands today.
    25:00 Main Street looking north, photo taken near 892 Main Street. Christ Church in the background, still stands today.
    25:45 Main Street looking north, photo taken near 564 Main Street, across from Hartford City Hall. St. John's Episcopal Church in the background, no longer stands. Is now a park.
    27:15 Connecticut Old State House, Main Street, on the right. Photo taken from Main Street, looking east on what is now State House Square, towards I-91 and the Connecticut River. State House still stands.
    EXCELLENT video and post. Thank you.

  • @celticsoul2850
    @celticsoul2850 2 роки тому +7

    What I noticed in the pictures you presented here and so many others is that I never see birds, or squirrels, cats or dogs loose, trash on the street, rarely even a trashcan. There’s something to still about most of these pictures, even the ones with people in them. They feel staged.

    • @michaelgregory5645
      @michaelgregory5645 2 роки тому

      One of the few things I thought while watching this as well

  • @elisabethkasper4026
    @elisabethkasper4026 2 роки тому +2

    Super interesting, thank you. About the Towers in Germany you can take a look in Worms - the Nibelungenturm , Heidelberg the old bridge, Lübeck, Kiel and Flensburg.

  • @markwilson6031
    @markwilson6031 3 роки тому +23

    It just isn’t possible to cut stone so well without power tools. I’ve been doing it for 30 years and have far better chisels than anyone in the 1800’s could have had. It requires diamond blades and carbide chisels. There is no rational explanation for this level of craftsmanship at this time with our historical narrative.

    • @markwilson6031
      @markwilson6031 3 роки тому +3

      @Zerilath I haven’t forgotten them. The techniques your suggesting are likely what was used, they just don’t agree with the history. Thanks for the response. Mark

    • @traceysheedy3384
      @traceysheedy3384 3 роки тому +5

      My great great grandfather came to hartford in 1863. He was the last mason cutting stone by hand. He cut the second to the last stone on the arch of the church of the goid shepard .. BY HAND

    • @markwilson6031
      @markwilson6031 3 роки тому +9

      @@traceysheedy3384 hi Tracey and thanks for the message. I have seen many hand cut stones and they are beautiful and functional. I meant to point out the perfection in these buildings of the stone cutting. It is beyond hand work. When you see 100 ballisters under a hand rail that are exact copies of each other with curves that exactly match the one next to it you know it wasn’t done by hand. This cannot be done in wood let alone in stone. It requires machines or something else. I don’t have the answer. I would love to see a picture of your grandfather’s work. I have a great appreciation for craftsmanship. Thanks again. Mark

    • @Tracky-sb2ev
      @Tracky-sb2ev 3 роки тому +4

      @@markwilson6031 My great great grandfather's obituary (12/18/1918) states: ..."he began his business career as a mason contractor, which vocation he followed more than half a century, having constructed the foundation and stone work of many of the best buildings in Hartford and neighboring towns. The foundations for the Hartford Theological Seminary and the Church of the Good Shepard, the old Bee Hive store, where Brown, Thompson and Co are now located, and many of the finest and older residences on Farmington Avenue were laid by Mr. Sheedy. In 1863, he cut the first stone laid for the Connecticut Hospital for the insane in Middletown. He also cut the last stone but one for the spire of the church of the Good Shepard. For the City, he built the retaining wall on the Ford Street side of the Park River. In the early days, when Mr. Sheedy first began as a mason contractor, all the stone used had to be cut by hand. There were no machine run implements used at that time. " Of course, I realize this was about foundation stone, but there was no machinery, so what's your theory? Couldn't it be a mold that was used?

    • @Tracky-sb2ev
      @Tracky-sb2ev 3 роки тому +3

      @@markwilson6031 Also: The Sheedys (also known as the Sheedy MacNamaras) were originally from County Clare, Ireland. Because the Sheedy Macnamara's built over 70 known castles in Clare and the borders, they created their own industry for masons, from whom Sheedy Macnamara's as well as Sheedys descend. Many Irish masons emigrated to Connecticut in the late 1700s and 1800s, some to work in the portland quarries, and others to become masons and builders.

  • @bradleyhenderson1198
    @bradleyhenderson1198 3 роки тому +4

    24:24 Not dynamos, machines (look like shears, but maybe stamps or presses) run from the overhead shaft. 25:15 Phoenix lectern and church, smh.

  • @michaelbonaiuto6968
    @michaelbonaiuto6968 2 роки тому +1

    I was born and lived in hartford for 53 years. CT is called the Land of Steady Habits..perhaps that is part of the reason all the buildings were harmonious with each other

  • @caseykelson1
    @caseykelson1 2 роки тому +1

    Interesting a lot of people slip over the 1635 Adventurer Party that came from Cambridge, with Stephen Hart, and a couple dozen other freemen. Lots of the early 1700s you had some great expansion to the northwest corner of Connecticut. Lots of Hartford citizens (of notable class) were given property throughout Litchfield county. Some of Stephen Harts family made their way to goshen in 1730s, settled along a beautiful ridge there. Where quite a few generations thrived on those lands. Until the death of Reuben Hart in 1918. Wherein 1919 the Torrington water company, purchased a large majority of it, and it’s been protected ever since!

    • @yrocsemaj5832
      @yrocsemaj5832 Рік тому

      Is that the car dealership family. Great information. Thank you

  • @nikkiraw1963
    @nikkiraw1963 2 роки тому

    The Connecticut River used to freeze so SOLID that my Grandparents used to go Ice Skating on it in the Winter when they were younger. That is around the bridge area in Middletown. No highway back then. Also in Hartford was the G fox building. Every floor was a different theme. Yard, bed and bath, clothing, electronics, etc.

  • @mareerogers364
    @mareerogers364 11 місяців тому

    Amazing. I grew up when some of these architectural gems were still intact 😊
    I know some Podunk people.They have not died out nor have the Poquonucks❤

  • @mattmiller115
    @mattmiller115 3 роки тому +7

    One in a long line of interesting Capital cities. Our whole realm is loaded down with these massive buildings that didn't either have the population to even occupy, let alone build such structures.

    • @raypratt3611
      @raypratt3611 3 роки тому +1

      That we've been told!!its obvious that there was more people,unless these structures were used for something else??

  • @lynnbb
    @lynnbb 3 роки тому +1

    💚 Excellent🌷THANK you💙

  • @martinemjt
    @martinemjt 3 роки тому +3

    Once upon a time there were builders, today we have bilders!

  • @thomasrhodes5013
    @thomasrhodes5013 10 місяців тому

    At 23:14 The river shown in that picture is now tunneled underground. This was done after the massive CT flooding of 1955.

  • @michaelcaron7659
    @michaelcaron7659 2 місяці тому

    I lived in Bristol,Ct for little over 20yrs graduated high school class of “76” there, never really knew about the Hartford history but then again I never really did any research, didn’t even know about the trolly system they had existed, Very Interesting 🤔

  • @robertfulton6922
    @robertfulton6922 2 роки тому +1

    I've lived in the West end of htfd in the same house for all my 71yrs.

  • @garyschultz7768
    @garyschultz7768 2 роки тому +1

    Nice to see the History of the late great USA... I was born an American.... it's all but gone now 😞 this show makes me nostalgic for a time that used to be....🇺🇸🖐

  • @MarlieAstra
    @MarlieAstra 3 роки тому +4

    I live across the street from the arch and capital, I have them in my direct view daily. I wish I could go inside the arch. Sometimes there are lights on in the top room.

    • @snoo333
      @snoo333 3 роки тому

      what would you do there?

    • @MarlieAstra
      @MarlieAstra 2 роки тому

      @@snoo333 take pics…

    • @snoo333
      @snoo333 2 роки тому

      @@MarlieAstra i wonder if you would be allowed to touch the material.

  • @Operationrescue7
    @Operationrescue7 2 роки тому

    It’s so good thank you so much

  • @thomasrhodes5013
    @thomasrhodes5013 10 місяців тому

    At 6:06 in the video. There is a Phoenix Bank structure built in 1806? The name is interesting as it suggests the "Phoenix" bird that rose from the ashes. As there was no Arizona, I am musing over what catastrophe took place to inspire this choice of name.

  • @aliciascott2588
    @aliciascott2588 3 роки тому +1

    Great video on CT 👏

  • @rosaramos7399
    @rosaramos7399 2 роки тому

    I grew up in Hartford and it was the best. I can honestly say that if I could go back in time, I would for sure!! I also graduated from Hartford High which is the second oldest high school in the U.S. It's so funny but we didn't call Bushnell Park by it's right name growing up. Being Puerto Rican, our parents would just change the name to just about everything 😄 We used to call it "El Parque de Los Indios" translated Indian Park because of the fountain. Thank you so much for beautiful video. ❤️

  • @MandEmma7
    @MandEmma7 2 роки тому

    love your videos

  • @kateemma-
    @kateemma- 3 роки тому +4

    Been watching some other videos today, as usual, but suddenly I had an idea, one which has been built on other previous ideas or knowledge but which suddenly I was struck by an epiphany!
    What if we are far older, what if those buildings were buried for centuries, not just decades, what if we are actually in the year 4022 and not 1022 as some postulate or even 2022 but instead we lost 2000 years instead of having 1000 years added?
    That could explain so much, it would explain the missing 1000 years but in a different way.
    I am working on the premise that the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn cannot be the tropics or could have been the tropics for over the past 2000 years, sailors would never have reached their destination, so that would see those Tropics set further in the past than we believe or even know.
    We should have been in the Tropics of Gemini and Sagittarius for the past 2000 years and now moving into the Tropics of Taurus and Scorpio.
    Before the invention of radio and GPS sailors needed to use the constellations to navigate by, but if they were navigating using the wrong constellations then they would have been too far off course.
    So, watching your video I suddenly realised that just perhaps, instead of us believing we lost or had a reset in the 1800s, that those 1800s were further in the past than we imagine, that we had a timeline, but that the timelines have been compressed into 2000 years instead of it being 4000 years.
    I know it sounds crazy, but it is just an idea that formed just now, on 4th January 2022, seeing the beautiful blue dome on that factory made me think that it was so out of place AND out of time, so how could it be out of both, unless we were not in the timeline that we're supposed to be in, that the giants were us but over 4000 years ago or even longer maybe, but definitely we're 2000 years too little.
    Just an idea though, and like all things, I always say we must be as openminded as we are skeptical, sounds like an oxymoron but if we don't stay openminded then we may dismiss something of importance and but if we remain skeptical we can see when we're being fed some kind of fable, it is hard but we must sift through so much rubbish now, that we're are a species out of time AND out of place, maybe thousands of years out place and maybe we can discover the truth before they pull off the next reset?

    • @beagler4234
      @beagler4234 2 роки тому +1

      They are pulling it off right in front of our eyes.

  • @daviddesmond2143
    @daviddesmond2143 Рік тому

    I lived in Hartford when I was first born for a few years then in surrounding towns. I greatly enjoyed seeing the pictures. Sadly, I read of gun deaths and bad poverty and lots of crime in Hartford so I avoid going there during the day and would never even go at night, even to the hospital.

  • @unclearcartoon3267
    @unclearcartoon3267 3 роки тому +2

    whats that piano song you play at the end of the video?

  • @integrativeoptions1809
    @integrativeoptions1809 3 роки тому +3

    Born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The amount of the same amazing old buildings in Bridgeport I believe rivals Hartford. PT Barnum and Bailey Circus is a very interesting part of the history of Bridgeport. It’s close proximity to Manhattan also is thought worthy. The state of Connecticut is one of the most beautiful in natural environment standards. The old architecture in Connecticut was placed within the natural beauty. The Connecticut river valley is stunning. Thank you for your research on Hartford. 💕

  • @lusciousbobby
    @lusciousbobby 3 роки тому +1

    The abolitionist John Brown was born roughly 20 miles west of Hartford in Torrington. Also the pictures of men at large wheels at 24:30 are working bench type power machinery driven by overhead belts, in turn driven by water mills. Those are not "dynamos".

    • @lavallebarlow2324
      @lavallebarlow2324 2 роки тому

      RIP to the greatest White Man in my book 🔥🔥🔥🏆💪💯

  • @thomasrhodes5013
    @thomasrhodes5013 10 місяців тому

    The antique graveyard you had shown in the video is located on main street next to a Church. My 9th great-grandmother was reported to have been buried there. However, I was unable to find her headstone. Maybel Haynes "Harlakenden" Eaton was married twice. her first marriage was to the Governor of the British Colony of Ct John Haynes and later to the Governor of the New Haven District, Rev Samuel Eaton. She had 6 children and died in the small pox epidemic of New Haven in 1655.

  • @Dangerous_5201
    @Dangerous_5201 3 дні тому

    Need to check but I would love to see a video on the buildings of South GA, specifically Glynn County...my high school was scattered across a large campus with multiple large red brick buildings, and I am pretty sure that tunnels existed under that campus per my drama teacher who had worked there for over 30 years and she would store the drama stuff in the bowels...anyway, love your channel bro, keep her up.