My latest Substack piece is about the Old Red Tavern, which was opened by Capt. Israel Seymour in 1775 on part of the site of the current state capitol grounds in Hartford. You can read in the article about how Capt. Seymour was killed by a lightning strike in 1784 as he stood inside the door of the building. The old tavern building was moved to Park Street in 1824, where it was standing when the above photograph was taken in 1896. The structure was torn down in the mid-1920s.
Hartford’s Lost Red Tavern
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