Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1819 - Hartford

Hartford, the seat of justice for the county and semi-capital of the State, is located on the west side of Connecticut river, fifty miles northwesterly from the mouth of the river at Saybrook bar. It is in north latitude 41,44, and west longitude 72,50. Hartford comprises an area of about thirty square miles, making 19,200 acre; being six miles in length upon its west line, five and a half miles upon its east line, and averaging about five miles in breadth. It is bounded west on Farmington, south on Wethersfield, north on Windsor,and east on East-Hartford and East-Windsor; the north line, or boundary, extending about one hundred rods farther north, than the north line of East-Hartford. The town is divided by a small stream called Mill river, with high romantic banks, over which is a bridge connecting the two divisions of the town...

A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Written with Care and Impartiality, from Original and Authentic Materials : Consisting of Two Parts ... : with an Accurate and Improved Map of Each State
Authors John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles
Publisher W.S. Marsh, 1819



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