Hartford Courant

Crumbling walls of historic brownstones increasing worry for CT national park. ‘It’s going to get bad’

A pair of brick-and-brownstone buildings at the former Colt firearms complex — structures once at the heart of gun manufacturing in Hartford — have survived 170 years, the now-forlorn buildings set ...
Stars and Stripes

Colt’s Manufacturing awarded $57 million contract for Army weapons

(Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Army has awarded West Hartford-based manufacturer Colt’s Manufacturing Co. a $57.2 million contract for M4 and M4A1 carbines, according to the U.S. Department of ...
Farm and Dairy

Troyer brothers reinvent potato business with organic French fries

Zack and Colt Troyer recently launched Folkland Foods, an organic French fry company that makes frozen fries with simple and ...
Hartford Courant

After delay, 48 new apartments at former Colt factory will bring total to 177 units at historic Hartford manufacturing complex

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky The North Armory in Hartford’s Colt manufacturing complex and its views of the iconic ...
The Register Citizen

Connecticut’s Colt gun factory site to be national park

HARTFORD >> As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won approval, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of Hartford’s poorest ...