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Old State House

Arts & Culture, History

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Old State House
800 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103

The building has a serious past and some interesting tours and exhibits. It was the site of the Amistad Trials, sits on the site of the first witch hanging in America (55 years before Salem), and has a museum upstairs with a two-headed calf, and a two-headed pig in a jar.

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