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Coltsville & the Blue Onion Dome

Hartford, CT

Samuel Colt built an enormous nineteenth-century industrial complex and planned community around his firearms factory. Its most immediately strange feature is the bright blue onion-shaped dome topped by a gilded colt, still visible above Hartford's skyline.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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