Garden Street Reservoir

Status: Upcoming

Constructed around the mid-19th c. on land that was part of the campus of the American School for the Deaf; remained in use until the early 20th c., at which point it was sold to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company

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Forgotten Asylum Hill - Jonathan Clark's Photo

The Reservoir's End

The Reservoir's Location


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The reservoir ran parallel to Garden Street, and it stretched from the middle of Cogswell Street, across Lot 4 of The Hartford, which is the visitors lot accessible from Cogswell Street, to about midway across Lot 3 of The Hartford, which is the employee lot accessible from Garden Street.


Sources

The main source for information on this page is the Hartford [Daily] Courant. Specific references to articles can be found under the timeline entries. I will soon be moving on to other, secondary sources of material, and they, as well as any additional Courant articles, will be added to the complete list of sources related to the contents on this page.


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