View your list of saved words. (You can log in using Facebook.)
City (pop., 2000: 121,578), capital of Connecticut, U.S. Lying
on the Connecticut River, it was settled by Dutch traders in the
1630s. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, which later served
as a model for the U.S. Constitution, were adopted (1639) in
Hartford. The city's insurance industry, its major business,
dates from 1794, when the first Hartford fire insurance policy
was issued. The statehouse (1796) was designed by Charles
Bulfinch. Institutions of higher learning include Trinity
College. The birthplace of J.P. Morgan, Hartford was also the
home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, whose houses are
preserved. This entry comes from Encyclopædia Britannica
Concise. For the full entry on Hartford, visit Britannica.com.