The following East Hartford links are presented so that they may increase your knowledge of or spark your curiosity into our town's history. Unless so noted the HSEH did not generate these sites nor does it maintain them. All are interesting nonetheless. Please feel free to send comments or suggestions about these sites or other such sites to webmaster@hseh.org; include HSEH in the subject line.


Genealogies
Magner Census 1900 Connecticut with East Hartford
Munsell Family Linked With East Hartford Makens Family
Ichabod Wadsworth buried in E Hartford
Webster Surnames, 1
Webster Surnames, 2
Obadiah or Dyer Wood / Mehitable Webster Linked With East Hartford Wood Family

Graveyards
Dream of Genealogy (Hartford County/East Hartford/Center Cemetery)
The Tombstone Transcription Project, Connecticut (Hartford County/East Hartford)

Historical Works
1886 History of East Hartford by J Goodwin - originally published in 1886 in The Memorial History of Hartford County Connecticut 1633-1884 Vol II Town Histories, pp 85-106. The publisher was Edward L.Osgood Publisher, Boston.

Letterboxing in East Hartford
Have some fun while reading about East Hartford's past, seeing some historic sites in town, and solving orienteering challenges!
Go to Letterboxing North America, press 'Search for Boxes', enter 'Connecticut' for the state, 'East Hartford' for the city, and press 'Search Boxes' to bring up East Hartford letterboxing sites.

Lists of Names
Amherst Students Having East Hartford, Ct in Their Biographies
Connecticut 1790 Census / East Hartford Sorted By Head of House
Connecticut 1790 Census / Households with/of Free Non White People, Hartford County, Connecticut Sorted By Head of Household
Connecticut 1790 Census / Households with Slaves, Hartford County, Connecticut Sorted By Head of Household
Connecticut 1840 Census / Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services
Early East Hartford Marriages to 1800 From Early Connecticut Marriages By Frederick Bailey
Old Newspaper Collections Project / By Clayton , Deb, & Holice / Deaths, E. Hartford, 1838
Political Graveyard, Politicians Who Were Born in Hartford County (East Hartford)
Political Graveyard, Politicians Who Lived in Hartford County (East Hartford)

People from East Hartford
Ct Historical Society References: letter of John F Allen and mililtary papers of William B Bryant
Joseph O. Goodwin from the Goodwin School web site
A History of the Hideaway Roadhouse - history of Merrow, Ct
Merrow Machine Company Today
Emerging From the Shadows, 1775-1819: Free Blacks Before the Rev. War Refers to Philip Moore, a free black man from what is now East Hartford, 1695
The National Watch and Clock Museum / Early Tools Gallery / Parkin Bros.

Pictures of Old East Hartford
Interesting Postcard views of late 19th century Hartford/East Hartford Bridges
Part of the interesting web site of Abraham and Anna Grace Jaffer, 19th century immigrants to Hartford
The Sand Hogs of the Bulkley Bridge (Hartford/East Hartford) article taken from "A Shoeleather History of Hartford"

Places
Cellu Tissue Corporation, A History of
CT Historical Society Civil War Monuments of Connecticut/East Hartford/Soldiers Monument
CNG History
Shoreline Trolley Museum/Trolley Towns/East Hartford (Trolley Route)
South End Residents & Merchants Cooperative of East Hartford / SERM History
Wickham Park, A History of

Podunks of East Hartford
Mattabesic History - refer to Podunks' Villages under "Sub-Nations"
Suckiag from "History and Genealogy of the Gov John Webster Family of Ct"