About Hartland, Connecticut

Hartland is a town of 1,901 people in the northwest corner of Hartford County, on the Massachusetts line. Its name is a shortened form of "Hartford land." In 1733 the 67 landowners who held this tract from Hartford organized as the Proprietors of Hartland. John Kendall, a Granby man running from his creditors, built a hut of river slabs in Hartland Hollow in 1753, but he stayed only about a year. Thomas Giddings and his wife, Mary Coult, came in 1754 and stayed for good, and Hartland became a town in 1761 with 212 people.

A rapid river split the town in two, so East and West Hartland each built a church, and from 1782 town meetings alternated between the two sides. In 1860 the town put up a town hall in Hartland Hollow, near the middle of town. Then the Metropolitan District Commission dammed the valley, and when the Saville Dam was finished in 1940, the rising water covered the Hollow. The project moved more than 1,000 people out of Hartland and Barkhamsted, along with four cemeteries and many farms, and to this day the reservoir separates the east side of town from the west.

“I went up and up and up until I bumped my head and then turned around and came back, and I had on a low cap, at that.”
The Connecticut Quarterly, 1895
  • Ordained under the open skyEast Hartland's first minister, Rev. Sterling Graves, was ordained in 1768 outdoors, on a knoll south of the church. The west side raised a large meeting-house of its own in 1775, and in 1837 that building got a steeple and a bell, a gift from Stephen Goodyear.
  • A forester's house from 1936In the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps crews worked in Tunxis State Forest. In 1936 one crew built the Tunxis Forest Headquarters House on North Hollow Road as their camp office, with fieldstone end walls that hold fireplaces. The local forester lived there until 1948, and the house joined the National Register in 1986.
  • A CCC ski lodgeIn 1937 crews from Camp Robinson built the Tunxis Forest Ski Cabin, a log lodge with a big fieldstone chimney, as the base of their ski area at the end of Balance Rock Road. The cabin joined the National Register in 1986, the same year as the headquarters house.
  • Hilltop pasturesAn 1837 book found Hartland cold and frosty, its soil poor for grain but good for grazing. Farmers made butter, cheese, beef and pork, and farmers farther east sent their young cattle and sheep up the hills to pasture each spring and summer. Farming was still the main work in 1890, when the census counted 565 people.
  • Asher Benjamin, born 1773Asher Benjamin was born in Hartland in 1773. He went on to write the first books of architectural patterns by an American author, and builders who followed them helped give towns across New England their look.

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Names on the Hartland map

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Places and landmarks17

  • North Hollow
  • East Hartland
  • Barkhamsted Reservoir Watershed Reserve Land
  • Bassett-Kell Preserve
  • Camp Alice Merritt
  • Colebrook Reservoir Watershed Reserve Land
  • Hartland Public Library
  • Hartland Recreation Area
  • Hartland School
  • Hartland Town Hall
  • Howells Pond Boat Launch
  • Loomis Institute
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  • Mill District Nature Preserve
  • Tunxis Forest Headquarters House
  • Tunxis Forest Ski Cabin
  • Tunxis State Forest
  • West Hartland Volunteer Fire Department

Streets and roads19

  • Pinehurst Rd
  • Stillman Rd
  • Dish Mill Rd
  • N Hollow
  • Brook Rd
  • Hogback Rd
  • Riverton Rd
  • Mill St
  • Center St
  • Hill Rd
  • Sunset Rd
  • Pine Rd
  • Art Hayes Rd
  • Town Rd
  • Skaret Rd
  • Mountain Rd
  • Pederson Rd
  • Fuller Rd
  • Granville Rd

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

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  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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