. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. Memorial Areh. HARTFORD. 35 Then the settlers began to rear their log cabins and form the groundwork for the upbuilding of the hand-some and progressive city of to-dav. The Indians had called the place Suckidug, which is said to havemeant Black Earth, and had allusion to the rich meadows pn the banks of the river. The settlers, on Feb-ruary 21. 1637, resolved to change the name from Newtown to Hartford, and this out of compliment to the Rev. Samuel Stone, who was a native of Hartford (nowHertford), Hertfordshire, England.
. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. Memorial Areh. HARTFORD. 35 Then the settlers began to rear their log cabins and form the groundwork for the upbuilding of the hand-some and progressive city of to-dav. The Indians had called the place Suckidug, which is said to havemeant Black Earth, and had allusion to the rich meadows pn the banks of the river. The settlers, on Feb-ruary 21. 1637, resolved to change the name from Newtown to Hartford, and this out of compliment to the Rev. Samuel Stone, who was a native of Hartford (nowHertford), Hertfordshire, England. The community was11 religious one, if anything, and the first place of wor-ship, built in 1638, stood near the present southeastern. 36 HARTFORD,
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