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Hartford was settled by the Reverend Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) and his followers in 1636. Laid out along the Connecticut River and incorporating the Little River (now the Park River), it became a busy port and an economic, cultural, and political center of the colony in the eighteenth century, sharing the role of capital with New Haven. (1)
Main Street in Hartford developed into a major thoroughfare, which gradually faded with the years. Today, the Butler-McCook House is the only eighteenth-century single-family dwelling remaining on the street. (2) It was lived in by the same family for four generations, from 1782 until 1971, and has been restored over the past ...
Source: HighBeam Research, History in houses: the Butler-McCook house and garden in Hartford,...