page_title: Hazardville, Connecticut
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hazardville, Connecticut / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut.
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: Child laborers in a tobacco shed at Hawthorn Farm in Hazardville, 1917.  Photo by Lewis Hine.
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