1. Sam L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, lived in Hartford for several years and is the author of Huckleberry Finn, a classic American novel.


2. Mark Twain had a very elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

3. Mark Twain’s home has a large side porch and overlooking it are windows and a balcony, which people say remind them of a steamboat similar to what Twain piloted in Mississippi.  

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven, but he never really liked this newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain, on his love for industrial inventions, lost a fortune investing in them since the Paige typesetter was developed at the same time as the Linotype, which was a much simpler and less expensive machine.

6. Mark Twain left his house in Hartford, where his daughter Susy died of spinal meningitis, because he never felt the same about the house again but he came back once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.