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	Hartford, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hartford is the capital of the state of Connecticut, in Hartford County.
		Hartford is bordered by the towns of West Hartford, Newington, Wethersfield, East Hartford, Bloomfield and Windsor.
		Hartford is the home of several institutions such as the Hartford Conservatory, Hartt School of Music, Trinity College, the Institute of Living, The American School for the Deaf, Capital Community College, Hartford Seminary, the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut Law School, and the University of Connecticut School of Business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut (4004 words)

	Hartford Convention -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hartford Convention's final report proposed several amendments to the (The constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states) United States Constitution.
		Hartford Convention delegates intended for them to embarrass the President and the Republicans in Congress—and also to serve as a basis for negotiations between New England and the rest of the country.
		Some Hartford Convention delegates were apparently in favor of New England's secession from the United States, and either forming an independent republic, or reuniting with Britain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hartford_convention.htm (432 words)

	Search Results for convention - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Convention supplementary to the Paris Convention of July 29, 1960, on third-party liability in the field of nuclear energy.
		E-text of this convention, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field, approved by the participating countries in 1949.
		E-text of this convention adopted by the UNESCO in Paris in December 1960.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=convention&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (473 words)

	HARTFORD - LoveToKnow Article on HARTFORD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this group of buildings are the Hartford public library (containing 9o,000volumes in 1908),theWatkinso library of reference (70,000 volumes in 1908), the library of the Connecticut historical society (25,000 volumes in 1908) and a public art gallery.
		The Hartford grammar school, founded in 1638, long managed by the town and in 1847 merged with the classical department of the Hartford public high school, is the oldest educational institution in the state.
		During the 18th century Hartford enjoyed a large and lucrative commerce, but the railway development of the I9th century centralized commerce in New York and Boston, and consequently the principal source of the citys wealth has come to be manufacturing and insurance.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HARTFORD.htm (1797 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hartford Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hartford Convention was an event in early United States History during which New England's secession from the United States was discussed.
		On October 10, 1814, the Massachusetts state legislature called for the Hartford Convention, ostensibly to discuss several consitutional amendments neccessary to protect New England's interests.
		Hartford Convention delegates were apparently in favor of New England's secession from the United States, and either forming an independent republic, or reuniting with Britain.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hartford-Convention (484 words)

	Hartford Convention. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Cabot, the head of the Massachusetts delegation and a moderate Federalist, presided.
		The proposal to secede from the Union was discussed and rejected, the grievances of New England were reviewed, and such matters as the use of the militia were thrashed out.
		Its importance, however, was twofold: It continued the view of states’ rights as the refuge of sectional groups, and it sealed the destruction of the Federalist party, which never regained its lost prestige.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HartfordC.html (423 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		When the delegates assembled in the Old State House in Hartford "to confer," not secede and form a political confederation, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had official delegates, while Vermont and New Hampshire had unofficial representatives.
		The convention was confident that its proposals would strike fear into the hearts of Madisonians.
		The Hartford Convention soon became an object of ridicule and disgrace.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1763_1818/hartconv.htm (338 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Conn. / Report: Convention center not reeling 'em in yet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Losing the 2005 Bassmaster Classic to Pittsburgh was the big one that got away from Hartford, and city officials are still trying to lure smaller conventions to the capital city.
		HARTFORD, Conn. -- Losing the 2005 Bassmaster Classic to Pittsburgh was the big one that got away from Hartford, and city officials are still trying to lure smaller conventions to the capital city.
		By its third year, the convention center at Adriaen's Landing was projected to host 36 conventions or trade shows and draw 72,000 visitors to Hartford.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2004/06/20/report_convention_center_not_reeling_em_in_yet (274 words)

	Hartford Advocate: A Convention Center, Unlike Others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sanders, of the University of Texas in Austin, is a veteran critic of urban convention center projects and an experienced cataloger of his warnings' bleak fulfillment.
		The report mentions Hartford only in passing, but in a phone conversation from his office in Austin last week, Sanders was thoroughly familiar with the current project as well as the mixed results of the city's past development efforts, including the Civic Center and the former Front Street, which became Constitution Plaza.
		Or they say their convention center is smaller than the mega-centers Sanders focuses on, and draws specific kinds of events: particularly local events, say, or corporate meetings.
	hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:101108 (1081 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hartford Convention was really a regional, if not national, event, and it forms a part of history that lies beyond the scope of this bibliography.
		Indeed, the last, best study of the Convention, James M. Banner's To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 (New York: Alfred Knopf; 1970) hardly touches Connecticut affairs at all, although his “A Note on the Sources” is invaluable.
		In "New England's Defense Problem and the Genesis of the Hartford Convention," New England Quarterly 50 (December, 1977) 4:587-604, Donald R. Hickey points to the difficulty of providing adequate defenses along the coast as a major reason for Connecticut's objection to national policy and the one most emphasized by Connecticut members of the convention.
	www.ctheritage.org /test/biography/colonytostate/htfdconv.htm (244 words)

	Hartford. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was an important military supply depot during the American Revolution, and in 1814–15, it hosted the Hartford Convention.
		Hartford has a noted art museum (the Wadsworth Atheneum), a symphony orchestra, and opera and ballet companies.
		Among Hartford’s institutions of higher education are Trinity College, the Univ. of Hartford, Hartford College for Women, and a branch of the Univ. of Connecticut and its schools of law and social work.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/Hartford.html (399 words)

	Meetings Focus \| Hartford
		Hartford's standing in the meetings industry, however, is about to change with the highly anticipated grand opening of the Connecticut Convention Center.
		Plans for the 540,000-square-foot convention center, which will be the second-largest convention center in New England, include a 140,000-square-foot exhibit hall, a 40,000-square-foot ballroom and 25,000 square feet of breakout space divided among 16 meeting rooms.
		The Hartford Convention Center is one of the cornerstones of downtown Hartford's Adriaen's Landing development, a 30-acre, $770 million effort to reenergize Hartford and its surrounding region.
	www.meetingsfocus.com /displayarticle.asp?id=3855 (1726 words)

	Governor Rowland: Governor Rowland Tours Connecticut Convention Center
		Hartford — Governor John G. Rowland today announced during a hardhat tour of the Connecticut Convention Center that the facility is 45% complete, on schedule to open in 2005.
		Among the recent project milestones, the two parking levels that undergird the building have been constructed, the attached parking garage is in place, the steel infrastructure is 45% erected, heating and cooling systems and other utilities are being installed, and the sixteen 100-foot tall concrete pillars articulating the north concourse area are being formed.
		The Connecticut Convention Center is designed by Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates (TVS), winner of the prestigious American Institute of Architects 2002 Architecture Firm Award, and Amenta/Emma Architects of Hartford, the Associate Architect for the project.
	www.ct.gov /governorrowland/cwp/view.asp?A=1336&Q=260026 (651 words)

	Marketing money cut for new convention center - Boston.com - Conn. - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The centerpiece of Hartford's massive redevelopment along the Connecticut River, which is to be linked to downtown Hartford, was initially budgeted for $6 million, said Dean Pagani, a spokesman for the Capital City Economic Development Authority.
		The Greater Hartford Convention and Visitors Bureau, with which CCEDA contracts to sell the convention center to large conventions, uses the money for marketing.
		Arthur L. Handman, executive director of the Greater Hartford Transit District, said the cut in CCEDA funding puts on hold a plan to run a circulator bus from the convention center to Hartford's hotels.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2005/06/09/marketing_money_cut_for_new_convention_center (324 words)

	Hartford Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		America's insurance industry was born in Hartford in the early 19th century -- largely in an effort to protect shipping interests.
		Through the years, Hartford industries have included the inspection and packing of tobacco (once a prominent industry in the northern river valley) and the manufacture of everything from bedsprings to artificial limbs, pool tables, and coffins.
		Hartford's distinctive office towers make what is actually an ever-expanding suburban development seem more urban.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=hartford@209 (661 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Boom Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A convention center could bring 150,000 people to Hartford each year who, according to the National Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, would stay an average of 3.3 days and spend $215 a day.
		Currently, the property favored by the Convention Center Authority is a largely city-owned parcel of land between the Holiday Inn and the Hartford Graduate Center.
		Hartford 2000's goal is to raise the number of people living in the city center to around 9,000, but unless someone converts an office building to apartments -- as some cities have -- there's really nowhere to put them right now.
	old.hartfordadvocate.com /articles/boomtown.html (3226 words)

	The Hartford Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hartford Convention "New England Considers Secession" December 15, 1814- January 5, 1815
		By the time the Hartford delegation arrived in Washington to make their recommendations, the War of 1812 was over.
		Fascinating Fact: The Federalist party, which had been discredited during the War of 1812 for such secessionist sympathies as those illustrated by the Hartford Convention, fared so poorly in the 1816 election that it did not run a national candidate against the Democratic Republicans in 1820.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/hartfordconvention.html (320 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Hartford Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For a convention center that was supposed to operate at a loss, even under the rosy scenario promised by the consultants who sold legislators on the project, that could mean a lot of red ink, said Sanders, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
		When a large convention is in town, the center will pepper the town with pediatric oncology nurses, music teachers, model train enthusiasts, aerospace engineers or whichever small society is attending those meetings, seeding Hartford with visitors from throughout the country.
		Scott Phelps, president of the convention and visitors bureau, said that the Hartford convention center has an easy-to-reach location in the heart of the most affluent and densely populated part of the country, plus the proven tourist draw of New England.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=186885 (4807 words)

	Hartford Convention on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Other important delegates were Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), also a moderate, and Theodore Dwight, who served as secretary of the convention.
		Head of new Hartford, Conn., convention center says staff is key to success.
		Hartford, Conn., convention center hopes to kick food up a notch.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hartfordc1.asp (584 words)

	CCEDA - News - Adriaen's Landing Chosen as Site for International Convention - August, 2001
		Hartford, CT - The Greater Hartford Convention and Visitors Bureau (GHCVB) is proud to announce that Adriaen's Landing will be host to more than 1,000 community leaders from across the world in spring of 2005.
		According to GHCVB President H. Scott Phelps, Hartford was selected ahead of Boston and other cities competing to become the site for its three-day conference at a recent meeting of the Community Leadership Association, an international umbrella for community leadership organizations.
		The development, for which utility construction is underway now, will build on Hartford's reunion with the CT River, acting as an economic growth engine for the capital city.
	www.cceda.state.ct.us /news/releases/GHCVB_081401.htm (390 words)

	The Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The dissatisfaction of the New England Federalists with Republican policies and the War of 1812 culminated in the Hartford Convention on December 1814.
		The Convention was attended by delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
		The resolutions of the convention arrived in Washington, D.C. just after the news of General Andrew JacksonÌs victory at New Orleans and the Treaty of Ghent.
	www.pinzler.com /ushistory/hartfordsupp.html (483 words)

	Nathan Dane’s Role in the Hartford Convention of 1814-1815 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the convention, a treaty was signed which ended the war, but word did not reach back to the union until a month after the convention ended.
		A short account of the Hartford Convention: taken from official documents, and addressed to the fair minded and the well disposed; To which is added an attested copy of the secret journal of that body.
		A short account of the Hartford Convention : taken from official documents, and addressed to the fair minded and the well disposed ; To which is added an attested copy of the secret journal of that body.
	www.primaryresearch.org /PRTHB/Dane/Norton/norton.htm (1025 words)

	Fisheries Convention in Hartford
		"Hartford's success can be seen by the growing number of meetings and conventions choosing Hartford as their meeting destination.
		The Convention is expected to generate more than $2 million for the local economy and is co-sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Greater Hartford Convention and Visitors Bureau, Northeast Utilities, Riverfront Recapture, Connecticut Sea Grant and the Southern New England Chapter and Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society (AFS).
		The Greater Hartford convention and Visitors Bureau recently presented Bireley with a "Bring it Home to Hartford Award" for her role in helping to organize the meeting.
	dep.state.ct.us /whatshap/Press/1998/ls0731.htm (1031 words)

	The Report of the Hartford Convention - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		In October 1814, Massachusetts Federalists, opposing President Madison and the war, called for a convention to be held in Hartford, Connecticut.
		The convention did, however, issue a declaration, calling on the federal government to protect New England, and offering several amendments to the Constitution for review by Congress.
		And it is further recommended, that the said States shall persevere in their efforts to obtain such amendments, until the same shall be effected.
	www.usconstitution.net /hartford.html (907 words)

	NSTA - Convention Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hartford’s Union Station Transportation Center, located at One Union Place, is open 24 hours and serves Amtrak and major intercity bus lines, taxis, airport limousines, and local buses.
		Hartford is at the crossroads of two major interstates, I-84 and I-91.
		The Hartford Parking Authority maintains a very helpful website that lists parking facilities close to various attractions, including the Convention Center and major hotels (www.hartfordparking.com).
	www.nsta.org /conventionsupport&record_id=112&Meeting_Code=2005HAR (876 words)

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