HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won approval, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of ...

At one point in time, Samuel Colt firearms company held the largest private armory in the world. Colt’s original factory and the utopian village that flanked it (a.k.a. Coltsville) was like the Google ...

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A pair of brick-and-brownstone buildings at the former Colt firearms complex — structures once at the heart of gun manufacturing in Hartford — have survived 170 years, the now-forlorn buildings set ...

The sign at the door of the Colt factory displays a gun with a slash through it: “No loaded or unauthorized firearms beyond this point.” Understandable for workers at a plant, but also a bit ironic, ...

As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt's 19th-century gun factory won approval, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of Hartford's poorest neighborhoods ...

Hartford, Conn. — As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won approval, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of Hartford’s ...

A measure designating Samuel Colt's 19th-century gun factory in Connecticut as a national park has been signed into law by President Barack Obama. State elected officials have hailed the project as a ...

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