The lost homestead of Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, once stood on Arch Street (pictured above in an illustration from John Warner Barber’s Connecticut Historical Collections, published in 1836, by which time the house was already demolished). The property was later the site of the Phoenix Iron Works, which played a vital role in the city’s rise to be a center of precision manufacturing. Read about this fascinating story in my latest Substack post.
Thomas Hooker’s Now Lost House in Hartford
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