Hartford, Wisconsin
| Hartford, Wisconsin | |
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| City | |
downtown Hartford on WIS 83
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 Location of Hartford, Wisconsin, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates: 43°19′6″N 88°22′44″W / 43.31833°N 88.37889°WCoordinates: 43°19′6″N 88°22′44″W / 43.31833°N 88.37889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| Counties | Washington, Dodge |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.02 sq mi (20.77 km2) |
| • Land | 7.94 sq mi (20.56 km2) |
| • Water | 0.08 sq mi (0.21 km2) |
| Elevation | 981 ft (299 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 14,223 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 14,243 |
| • Density | 1,791.3/sq mi (691.6/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code(s) | 262 |
| FIPS code | 55-33000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1566104 |
| Website | www |
Hartford is a city in Washington and Dodge counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 14,223. All of this population resided in the Washington County portion of the city.
John Thiel and Nicolas Simon first surveyed the area that would become Hartford in 1843. James and Charles Rossman accompanied Nicolas Simon back to Hartford in 1844, and soon bought 40 acres around the rapids of the Rubicon River. After constructing a dam across rapids in the river, the Rossmans built a sawmill that harnessed the power of the water to make lumber for the growth of the area. Rails were laid in 1855 that linked Chicago, Milwaukee, La Crosse and Minneapolis until the early 1900s.
The town was named after Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford was a New England settlement. The original founders of Hartford consisted entirely of settlers from New England, most of whom were from Connecticut and Vermont, though some came from rural Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the region of downeast Maine. They were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s and were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. Most of them arrived as a result of the completion of the Erie Canal and the end of the Black Hawk War. When they arrived in what is now Hartford there was nothing but dense virgin forest and wild prairie. They laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes.
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