Pope’s bicycles and automobiles not only gave 19th-century consumers greater personal mobility, they also helped propel social change.
ReadThe Hartford City Parks Collection comprises a rich archive, documenting Hartford’s pioneering effort to establish and maintain a viable system of municipal parks and connecting parkways between them.
ReadOn November 20, 1866, mechanic Pierre Lallement, a temporary resident of New Haven, Connecticut, received a patent for an improvement in velocipedes.
ReadOnce the proposed site of Albert Pope’s industrial village, Pope Park has served the recreation needs of the Hartford community for over one hundred years.
ReadAlbert Pope’s company not only played a prominent role in developing improved bicycle designs, it also developed the market for them.
ReadHartford-based inventor Albert Pope saw his first bicycle at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and was so impressed that he went to Europe to study how bicycles were made.
ReadDespite the wealth found in some sections of the city, the economic volatility of the Gilded Age produced hard times for residents of Hartford.
ReadThe National Museum of American History explains how a revolver, sewing machine, bicycle, and early-model electric automobile are connected.
ReadHow the 19th-century cycling craze led to improved roads and paved the way for future federal highway construction.
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