1. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, lived in Hartford for several years and he is the author of Huckleberry Finn which is a classic American novel.
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was a neighbor of Mark Twain, whose very elaborate and elegant house was on Farmington Avenue, in an area called Nook Farm.
3. Mark Twain's home has a large side porch that overlook the windows and a balcony which reminds the people today of a steamboat because Twain piloted one on the Mississippi during his youth.
4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but since there was practically no one to talk to, Mark Twain never really liked this newfangled gadget.
5.Mark Twain loved industrial inventions but he lost a fortune investing in these industrial machines like the elaborate Paige typesetter which was developed at the same time as the Linotype, a much simpler and less expensive machine.
6. Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died in the Hartford home due to spinal meningitis which cause Twain to never feel the same about the house again so he soon left and returned only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
