This video is about an urban renewal project in Hartford's old East Side that coincided with the construction of the Bulkely Bridge in the first decade of the twentieth century. The old riverfront area was cleared to make way for the construction of the new Connecticut Boulevard. The demolished buildings included old houses, tenements, warehouses and businesses dating to a lively period along the city's waterfront. These changes took place almost a half century before the destruction that preceded the building of Constitution Plaza and the interstate highways.

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A better photo of Asa Farwell's warehouse at the corner of Ferry and Commerce Streets:
https://collections.ctdigitalarchive....

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