Colt Park, Urban park in Hartford, Connecticut
Colt Park is a 106-acre park in Hartford's Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood, created from the former Armsmear estate of Samuel and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt. It has playgrounds, sports fields, a pool, and Dillon Stadium, a 9,600-seat venue rebuilt in 2018–19. The grounds were originally laid out in High Victorian Gothic style with reflecting pools, fountains, and statuary.
Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt donated the property to Hartford in 1905, having been part of the former Armsmear Estate of industrialist Samuel Colt. This gift shaped the land's transformation into a public recreational space.
The park began as Samuel Colt's private "pleasure-grounds", laid out in High Victorian Gothic style with reflecting pools, rustic furnishings, fountains, urns, statuary, artificial ponds for fish and fowl, a deer park and orchards. Elizabeth Jarvis Colt gave the estate to Hartford on her death in 1905, and the grounds opened as a public park.
The park is bounded by Wawarme, Wethersfield, Hendricxsen and Van Dyke Avenues and by Stonington, Maseek and Sequassen Streets, with Dillon Stadium and its dedicated surface parking lot on a block west of the stadium. The grounds hold playgrounds, sports fields and a pool. Colt Park lies beside Bell Pond, about 1.8 km from downtown Hartford.
Field number nine within the park bears the name of Hartford native Johnny Taylor, who played in the Negro Baseball League. This naming preserves the story of an important chapter in American baseball history.
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