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History · Blue Hills

14% of Blue Hills’ homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0

What stands out about Blue Hills’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Blue Hills are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Blue Hills’ homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blue Hills’s history is told.

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The story so far

Blue Hills, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Blue Hills yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Blue Hills is a community in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, encompassing the northwestern corner of the city of Hartford and the southeastern corner of the town of Bloomfield. The Bloomfield portion is listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 2,762 at the 2020 census. Blue Hills is home to many schools and homes. Including the portion in Hartford, it has roughly 10,000 residents, and has several schools and one university located there. Its main thoroughfares are Granby Street, Blue Hills Avenue (Route 187), Plainfield Street, Bloomfield Avenue (Route 189) and Albany Avenue (US 44). Connecticut Transit operates several bus route…

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,901 to 2,762 (-5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Blue Hills, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Taste 7782024Taste 778Blue Hills Station 32024Blue Hills Station 3McMahon Wintonbury Library2023McMahon Wintonbury LibraryBlue Hills Fire Department2023Blue Hills Fire DepartmentHartfordCT BlueHillsFireStation2018HartfordCT BlueHillsFireStation
Famous people

Famous people close to Blue Hills

Nobody well known was born in Blue Hills itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Katharine HepburnAmerican actress · b. 1907
Barbara McClintockAmerican scientist and cytogeneticist · b. 1902
J. P. MorganAmerican financier, banker, and art collector · b. 1837
Stephenie MeyerAmerican author · b. 1973
Samuel Colt19th-century American industrialist and inventor · b. 1814
Suzanne CollinsAmerican television writer and novelist · b. 1962
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Bloomfield7 historic placesB−Hartford146 historic placesA+Windsor41 historic placesA

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.