Things to Do in Hartford

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Opened in 1842, this was the first public art museum in the United States and remains a repository with...

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Mark Twain House and Museum

Samuel Clemens, whose pseudonym, Mark Twain, was a term used by Mississippi River pilots to indicate...

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The Old State House

After escaping a close call in 1975 (the city wanted to tear it down to build a parking lot), a 4-year,...

Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library

Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, when she was 41, portrayed the physical, sexual, and...