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Question: How did the neighborhood of asylum hill in hartford, connecticut get its name?

(Posted by: xemmx on 2010-01-24 17:09:54)

Well, I was just messing around on the computer, looking for a good setting for a story of mine. I began looking through the towns of Connecticut, and a certain name caught my eye: Asylum Hill. I looked all through the history, and I can't find out where it got its name. Does anyone know, and would you please give me a website?

Posted by: xjoizey on 2010-01-24, 17:29:20

Originally Lords hill. In 1807 an Asylum (school) for the education of the blind and deaf. So it became Asylum Hill.hartford.omaxfield.com/ asylum.html