About Trinity College

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the chair of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county organization in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates past the 2010 United States Census have indicated that Hartford is the fourth-largest city in Connecticut, behind the coastal cities of Bridgeport, New Haven, and Stamford.

Hartford was founded in 1635 and is accompanied by the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the country’s oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest all the time published newspaper (the Hartford Courant), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School). It is also house to the Mark Twain House, where the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family, among supplementary historically significant sites. Mark Twain wrote in 1868, “Of anything the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief.”

Hartford was the richest city in the United States for several decades past the American Civil War. Today, it is one of the poorest cities in the U.S., with 3 out of all 10 families living under the poverty threshold. In scratchy contrast, the Greater Hartford metropolitan statistical Place was ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in sum economic production and 8th out of 280 metropolitan statistical areas in per capita allowance in 2015.

Nicknamed the “Insurance Capital of the World”, Hartford holds tall sufficiency as a global city, as house to the headquarters of many insurance companies, the region’s major industry. Other prominent industries add up the services, education and healthcare industries. Hartford coordinates sure Hartford-Springfield regional build up matters through the Knowledge Corridor Economic Partnership.