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Hartford Public High School

high school in Hartford, Connecticut

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ14714917 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hartford Public High School, in Hartford, Connecticut, was founded in 1638. It is the second-oldest public secondary school in the United States, after the Boston Latin School. It is part of the Hartford Public Schools district.

The school was originally known as the Latin School. It used the name Hartford Grammar School beginning in the 18th century and opened to women and became the Hartford Public High School in 1847.

Editorial summary

“Hartford Public High School” enters the record as high school in Hartford, Connecticut. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hartford, Public and High can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1638, 1847—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1638. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hartford, Public and High.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hartford Public High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hartford, Public and High provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14714917. VIAF identifies the subject as 157252101. The Library of Congress control number is n93011028. Authority coordinates are 41.764, -72.701. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1638 and 1847.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating named record creators
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  2. Expand the search: follow Hartford Public High School primary sources, Hartford Public High School archive and Hartford research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Hartford Public High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.