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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, ...

The North Armory in Hartford’s Colt manufacturing complex and its views of the iconic blue, onion-shaped dome to the east and downtown to the north are expected to be a draw for future tenants once ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARTFORD, Connecticut -- 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 ...

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 ...

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