Samuel Colt
December 12, 2016
By Leah S. Glaser Winter 2016-2017 (c) Connecticut Explored SUBSCRIBE! This article is adapted form Leah S. Glaser and Nicholas Thomas, “Sam Colt’s Arizona: Investing in the West,” Journal of Arizona History 56:1 (Spring 2015), 29-52. […]
March 31, 2016
by William Hosley WINTER 2005/06 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! My passion for Coltsville, the 19th-century Hartford home and factory complex of entrepreneurial gun-makers Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, was kindled almost 20 years ago. As curator of […]
March 31, 2016
By Ellsworth Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. May/Jun/Jul 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The advance of the industrial revolution in Hartford in the mid-1800s made this city by late century one of the wealthiest per capita […]
September 10, 2015
By Briann Greenfield and Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2011/12 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! From the colonial period into the early 19th century, Connecticut’s foreign trade consisted of exporting lumber, livestock, and agricultural products […]