page_title: Hazardville, Connecticut
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hazardville, Connecticut / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard: School Street, looking north, Hazardville part of Enfield, Connecticut, 1910 postmark. Store Web page states: "Date(s): 1910 / Stamped: has fallen off / Cancelled: yes" Caption on front of postcard states: "School Street Looking North. Hazardville, Conn."
context_page_description: Hazardville is a section of the town of Enfield, Connecticut, in Hartford County. It is a census-designated place that had a total population of 4,599 as of the 2010 census.
context_section_description: Hazardville originated as an industrial village centered around the manufacture of gunpowder using water power from the Scantic River. The first small black powder mill was established in 1835 by Allen Loomis in an area then known as Powder Hollow. This became the Hazard Powder Company.
  Hazardville takes its name from Colonel Augustus George Hazard.
caption: School Street, looking north, c. 1910
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