Connecticut - U.S. National Park Service
Conceived in 1921, built by private citizens, and completed in 1937, today the trail is managed by the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, numerous state …
Connecticut - List View - U.S. National Park Service
Conceived in 1921, built by private citizens, and completed in 1937, today the trail is managed by the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, numerous state …
Keney Park - U.S. National Park Service
Jun 6, 2024 · In 1893, patriarch of one of Hartford’s most prominent families, Henry Keney, gifted 533 acres of land to the city, with the only requirement being the land be used as a park. …
Riverside Park (Hartford) - U.S. National Park Service
Building on their father’s plan for Hartford, Connecticut’s system of parks, Olmsted Brothers began work on Riverside Park in 1895. 75-acres along the Connecticut River were meant to …
Bushnell Park - U.S. National Park Service
Jun 5, 2024 · In 1853 Reverend Horace Bushnell, motivated to improve access to nature for the city’s poor working class, persuaded the Hartford City Council to acquire the land to create a …
Hartford Parks - U.S. National Park Service
Jun 6, 2024 · Seventeen years after the country’s first municipal park, Bushnell Park, was created, Hartford native Frederick Law Olmsted began drafting plans for a system of parks …
East Hartford, Connecticut - U.S. National Park Service
Apr 30, 2024 · Pratt & Whitney engines powered roughly 70 different military aircraft, including the Corsair, the Hellcat, the Thunderbolt, the Liberator, the Devastator, the Catalina, the Ventura, …
Hartford Insane Asylum - U.S. National Park Service
Jun 20, 2024 · However, the plan was not immediately implemented until funding was secured, and by that point, Olmsted was working for the United States Sanitary Commission. A frequent …
USS HARTFORD (1858) - U.S. National Park Service
United States forces occupied New Orleans without a fight. On April 29, Flag Officer Farragut landed along with marines from USS Hartford and took down the Louisiana state flag from City …
Colt Park - U.S. National Park Service
Apr 9, 2021 · Colt Park, today, now has basketball and handball courts, soccer, baseball, softball, and football fields, two swimming pools, a playground and a walking path. The Park is …