Underneath that blue dome lies the east armory of a factory once owned by a man who changed American history, the innovator of the revolver, Samuel Colt. Sprawling around the crumbling red brickwork of the old Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, once the largest private armory in the world, are the remnants of Coltsville, the utopian village he built for his workers.

A model of 19th century industrial paternalism, Coltsville included a church, a social hall for dances and lectures, workers’ housing, a giant landscaped park home to deer and peacocks, sculpted botanical gardens, and thousands of feet of greenhouses filled with tropical fruit and flowers. Samuel Colt felt such responsibility for the welfare of his workers outside the factory that he went so far as to build Potsdam Village, to replicate the feel of the German village from which he imported his skilled craftsmen to work in his willow ware factory.

The National Park Service began having on-site presence in 2015, with workshops and tours, including up into the Blue Onion Dome which affords magnificent views of downtown Hartford, the Connecticut River and Colt Park, formerly the back yard of Armsmear, Samuel & Elizabeth Colt’s mansion. By 2016, an NPS ranger had taken up residence in the South Armory and was giving walking tours of Coltsville.

The old South, East and North armories are under renovation and the two 1855 brownstone buildings, the oldest structures on site, will become the National Park Service Visitor Center. The armories themselves have been or are being renovated into apartments, offices and education facilities.

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NT$3,491 total

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NT$2,521 total

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Oct 28 - Oct 29

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NT$2,254 total

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Oct 27 - Oct 28

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NT$3,187 total

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Nov 2 - Nov 3

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NT$2,581 total

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Oct 29 - Oct 30

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Jeremiah

NT$2,036 total

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Nov 2 - Nov 3

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NT$2,613 total

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Rafael

NT$3,612 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

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Deborah

NT$3,372 total

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Nov 14 - Nov 15

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Joycelyn

NT$2,939 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

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NT$2,103 total

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Nov 10 - Nov 11

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Cary

NT$2,598 total

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Nov 9 - Nov 10

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Sarah

NT$3,393 total

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Oct 30 - Oct 31

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Keishla

NT$3,187 total

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Oct 26 - Oct 27

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Gregory

NT$3,712 total

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Oct 30 - Oct 31

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NT$2,224 total

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Nov 5 - Nov 6

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NT$4,560 total

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Nov 10 - Nov 11

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Carter

NT$2,991 total

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Oct 30 - Oct 31

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Michelle

NT$3,499 total

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Oct 29 - Oct 30

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Dominick

NT$3,223 total

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Nov 24 - Nov 25

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