The History of Connecticut's Old State House
For the past 220 years, Connecticut's Old State House has been a center of community action, civic engagement and democracy - not just for the state of Connecticut, but for the city of Hartford as well. In this video you will learn the history of the grand building, which still proudly stands in the heart of our capital city. Located at 800 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut.
History of Hartford, Connecticut / History of towns in United States
Country: United States
State: Connecticut
County: Hartford
City: Hartford
Population (2014):
• State capital 124,893 /
* 124,775 (2010)
• Density 7,025.5/sq mi (2,776/km2)
• Urban 924,859 (US: 47th)
• Metro 1,214,295 (US: 47th)
• CSA 1,489,361 (US: 36th)
Various tribes, all part of the loose Algonquin confederation, lived in or around present-day Hartford. The area was referred to as Suckiaug', meaning Black Fertile River-Enhanced Earth, good for planting. These included the Podunks, mostly east of the Connecticut River; the Poquonocks, north and west of Hartford; the Massacoes, in the Simsbury area; the Tunxis tribe, in West Hartford and Farmington; the Wangunks, to the south; and the Saukiog in Hartford itself.
The first Europeans known to have explored the area were the Dutch, under Adriaen Block, who sailed up the Connecticut in 1614. Dutch fur traders from New Amsterdam returned in 1623 with a mission to establish a trading post and fortify the area for the Dutch West India Company. The original site was located on the south bank of the Park River in the present-day Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood. This fort was called Fort Hoop, or the House of Hope. In 1633, Jacob Van Curler formally bought the land around Fort Hoop from the Pequot chief for a small sum. It was home to perhaps a couple families and a few dozen soldiers. The area today is known as Dutch Point, and the name of the Dutch fort, House of Hope, is reflected in the name of Huyshope Avenue. The fort was abandoned by 1654, but its neighborhood in Hartford is still known as Dutch Point. The Dutch outpost, and the tiny contingent of Dutch soldiers that were stationed there, did little to check the English migration. The Dutch soon realized they were vastly outnumbered. The House of Hope remained an outpost, but it was steadily swallowed up by waves of English settlers. In 1650, when Peter Stuyvesant met with English representatives to negotiate a permanent boundary between the Dutch and English colonies, the line they agreed on was more than 50 miles (80 km) west of the original settlement.
The English began to arrive 1637, settling upstream from Fort Hoop near the present-day Downtown and Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhoods. Puritan pastors Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone along with Governor John Haynes led 100 settlers with 130 head of cattle in a trek from Newtown (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and started their settlement just north of the Dutch fort. The settlement was originally called Newtown, but was changed to Hartford in 1637 in honor of Stone's hometown of Hertford, England. Hooker also created the nearby town of Windsor (in 1633). The etymology of 'Hartford' is the ford where harts cross (deer crossing). The Seal of the City of Hartford features a male deer, which in full maturity was referred to by the medieval hunting term hart.
The fledgling colony along the Connecticut River had issues with the authority by which it was to be governed because it was outside of the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter. Therefore, Hooker delivered a sermon that inspired the writing of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, a document (ratified January 14, 1639) investing the people with the authority to govern, rather than ceding such authority to a higher power. Historians suggest that Hooker's conception of self-rule embodied in the Fundamental Orders went on to inspire the Connecticut Constitution, and ultimately the U.S. Constitution. Today, one of Connecticut's nicknames is the Constitution State.
The original settlement area contained the site of The Charter Oak. The Charter Oak was an unusually old white oak tree in which, according to legend, colonists hid the Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 to protect it from confiscation by an English governor-general. Thus the grand, stately tree came to symbolize the power of nature as a defender of freedom throughout Connecticut. In fact, the state adopted the image as the emblem of the Connecticut state quarter. The Charter Oak Monument is located at the corner of Charter Oak Place, a historic street, and Charter Oak Avenue.
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1. WAR MEMORIAL,STAMFORD 41° 3'12.82N 73°32'20.18W
2. WADSWORTH ATHENEUM ART MUSEUM, HARTFORD 41°45′48″N 72°40′26″W
3. FORT GRISWOLD BATTLE FIELD,GROTON 41°21'14.34N 72° 4'47.27W
4. LAKE COMPOUNCE,BRISTOL 41°38'20.94N 72°55'24.73W
5. OLD CAPITAL HOUSE,HARTFORD 41°45'58.07N 72°40'21.85W
6. HEARTHSTONE CASTLE,DANBURY 41°22'39.42N 73°26'55.14W
7. KENT FALLS STATE PARK,KENT 41°46'29.35N 73°24'58.21W
8. MOHEGAN SUN CASINO 41°29'32.17N 72° 5'19.89W
9. CASTLE CRAIG,MERIDEN 41°33'25.20N 72°50'6.65W
10. FISH CHURCH,STAMFORD 41° 3'46.14N 73°32'20.82W
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16. WAVENY HOUSE,NEW CANAN 41° 7'19.13N 73°29'26.05W
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18. FORT TRUMBULL,NEW LONDON 41°20'37.40N 72° 5'36.13W
19. MYSTIC AQUARIUM,MYSTIC 41°22'24.46N 71°57'11.52W
20. MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM,HARTFORD 41°46'1.30N 72°42'4.97W
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