Elizabeth Natural Park in Garden Supplies Directory

The area which is now known as Elizabeth Park was once owned by Charles M. Pond. Mr. Pond was a wealthy industrialist and statesman whose career included being a Director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Hartford Hospital, and the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Pond was also President of the Hartford Trust Company and he was Treasurer of the State of Connecticut. When Mr. Pond passed away, he willed his estate to the City of Hartford with the stipulations that it be used as a horticultural park and that it be named for his wife, Elizabeth, who had died a few years earlier. In Mr. Ponds time, the HartfordWest Hartford border was located about a quarter mile west of where it is today. When the boundary was moved to its present location, it resulted in the unusual situation of one of Hartfords larger parks being situated mostly within the Town of West Hartford.

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