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Hart⋅ford

[hahrt-ferd]
–noun
1. (George) Huntington, 2nd, born 1911, U.S. businessman and patron of the arts.
2. a port in and the capital of Connecticut, in the central part, on the Connecticut River. 136,392.
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Hart·ford   (härt'fərd)   
The capital of Connecticut, in the north-central part of the state on the Connecticut River. Settled 1635-1636 by Massachusetts colonists on the site of a Dutch trading post, it became the nucleus of the Connecticut Colony in 1639. From 1701 to 1875 it was joint capital with New Haven. Population: 125,000.
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Hartford

Capital of Connecticut.

Note: Center of the insurance industry.
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