Water for Hartford: The Story of the Hartford Water Works and the Metropolitan District Commission

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Index Adriaen Block, 17 Aetna Fire Insurance Co., 5 Albany Turnpike (Route 20), 221 ALCOA, 263 Alden Hydraulic Laboratory, 235 Alfred Burr against private water firms, 28 apprenticeship, 25 Allied Connecticut Towns, Inc., 258 Allyn Hall description, 88 costs to mount shows, 101 Allyn House, 73, 128 Allyn, Timothy, Mayor, 123, 142, 143 American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb land sale to HWW, 43 American Electric Company, 151 American engine, See Root engine American Mercury, 9 American Revolution, 8 American Society of Civil Engineers, 172 Andrews, Eldridge, 5, 12 Anopheles mosquitoes, 174 Archippus Morgan, 11 Army Corps of Engineers, 184, 260, 261, 262 Ayres, Henry, 146, 149, 154 Ayres, Sarah, 146 B. Coli, 191 Babcock , Dolly and Elisha water system, 9 Bacon, Richard, 135-137 death of, 137 Baltimore Liberty Reservoir, 243 street pumps, 5 water works, 8, 12 Banning, Talcott, farm, 224 Barkhamsted, 234-247 compensating reservoir, 170-171 compensatiing reservoir land purchases, 186 filling completed, 240 Barkhamsted Center, 214, 216, 231, 232 Barkhamsted Hollow, 209-231 Barnard, Elizabeth marriage to Hiram Bissell, 101 Barney, D. Newton, 255 Barnum, P.T., 153 Baseball begins in Hartford, 78 Hartford Dark Blues, 152 Batterson, James G., 158 Becket Mountain, 213 Beecher, Henry Ward, 38 Belden’s Corners, 117 Bettes, Bill, 257, 259 Bidwell & Pitkin, 54-55 Billings & Spencer, 237 Bills Brook Dam, 210-244 completion, 236 costs, 236 description, 235 forming, 236 landscaping, 236 Binding arbitration, 226 Birden, Harold, 215, 216, 228 Bishop’s Bridge, 117 Bissell, Hiram at Trout Brook, 75 apprenticeship, 6 arrival in Hartford, 1-15 birthplace, 1 Buckingham Street, 14 character, 2 Democtatic politics, 15 education, 1 parents, 1 late night ride to Reservoir No. 1, 114 marriage, 14 masonry partnership, 13 meeting at Central Hall, 96 remarriage, 101 resignation, 56 steps down, 131 unions, 108 Wadsworth Street, 112 312 work, Armsmear, 15 Bissell, Martin, 37 Bissell, Nancy marriage, 14 death of, 89 Bissell, Sylvester birth, 1 work, 37 West Hartford Ice Co., 131 Bloomfield, 199, 208 Boston Sunday Herald, 194 Boston Water Works, 172, 181, 182 annexation of towns, 205 Brookline Reservoir, 147 Cochituate Aqueduct, 16, 147 Metropolitan Water Board, 181 Jamaica Pond Aqueduct, 8 people displaced by reservoir projects, 251 Quabbin Reservoir, 183 Quabbin Voices, 251 street pumps, 5 Union Oyster House, 196 Wachusett Dam, 172, 188, 235, 250 Wachusett Reservoir, 172, 173, 175, 181, 183, 198, 205 Bolter, James, 51,54, 55 Bottinelli Monumental Company, 232, 233, 259 Bourquin, Gene, 257, 259 Brackett, Dexter, 176 Broad Street Pump, 26 Bronson parcel, 230 Brown, Thomson & Co., 156, 157 Bryant & Chapman, 218 Buckley, Mary, 5, 6, 8 Buffalo Bill, 154 Bulkeley Field, 157 Bulkeley, Morgan, 151-152, 176, 203204 , 255 Bulkeley, Eliphalet drops opposition to Trout Brook plan, 99 education, 91 injunction lifted, 99 Bushnell Park, 125, 150 original condition, 70 Bushnell, Rev. Horace park system, 69 Cable, Clifford, farm, 223 Cables, J. Alfred,fFarm, 221 Cadwell, John reservoir land, 149 Cannon, Marty, 194, 196, 197, 198 Carey, H. Bissell, 230, 254-266 Carey, Mary (Barney), 255 Carpenter, Elisha, Judge, 99 Carrier, Mrs. Joanne, 220 Case, G. J., 190 Case, Hubert, 215 Case, Marshall, 228, 232 Cast iron pipes, 152 compared to wood, 45 Cedar Hill, 9, 11 location, 9 water source, 11 Chagres River, 173 Charter Oak Park, 153, 162 Charter Oak story, 231 Chauncey Gleason, 9, 10 Chesbrough, Ellis S., 16, 147 Chicago as regional supplier, 205 fire, 139 Chlorination in US, 169 Cholera, 26 City Hall, 4 City Hall Market location, 4 City of Hartford, 111, 157 Clark, David, farm, 9 Clark, Ezra as water board president,132 blamed by council, 56 business ventures, 134 children, 133 Collins Street, 137 death of, 162 early life, 132 fertilizer business, 137 letter to brother, 134 marriage, 133 on water waste, 158 313 problems with John Hunter, 141 rejoins water board, 139 reservoir bridle path, 160 screw making jobs, 138 United States Hotel, 161 Clark, Ezra, Sr., 132 Clark & Co., 133-138 Clark, Mary, marriage, 133 death of, 137 Clemens, Samuel & Livy, 27, 124-125 Clyde, Milton, 99, 105 Colebrook Cemetery, 259 Colebrook River, 213, 254-265 Colebrook River Lake, 261, 262 Collins Brothers, 44 Collins Company, 165, 254, 255, 256 Collinsville, 184 Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms, 237 Civil War production, 79 size, 15 Colombia and Electric Vehicle Co., 161 Common Council Democrats win first majority, 110 Condemnation, 254, 258, 259 Connecticut Copper Company, 136 Connecticut Courant, The, 3, 7, 10 Connecticut grown tobacco, 218...