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| The 1938-39 //Trinity College Bulletin,// possibly drawing from Love's account, also notes that the location of the gallows used for these executions was described as "on the road from the Cow Pasture into the Country," and concludes that this is a location "over the town line in West Hartford near Albany Avenue, perhaps on the hill where the house of James G. Butler now stands." | The 1938-39 //Trinity College Bulletin,// possibly drawing from Love's account, also notes that the location of the gallows used for these executions was described as "on the road from the Cow Pasture into the Country," and concludes that this is a location "over the town line in West Hartford near Albany Avenue, perhaps on the hill where the house of James G. Butler now stands." |
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| Of the two competing locations, it is unlikely that [[summit_campus|Rocky Ridge]] (the present Trinity campus) was chosen for executions which would be "of moral value to young and old." | Of the two competing locations, it is unlikely that [[summit_campus|Rocky Ridge]] (the present Trinity campus) was chosen for executions which would be "of moral value to young and old," since Zachery's Lane (Vernon Street) did not yet exist at the time of the Witch Trials, rendering the area inaccessible. In contrast, the Albany Ave site was flat, open, and close to the town common. |
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| The //Bulletin// also notes that attendance at public executions was encouraged at the time, in the belief that it would be "of moral value to young and old." Since Zachery's Lane (Vernon Street) did not yet exist at the time of the Witch Trials, the //Bulletin// notes, the Gallows Hill at Trinity was probably not sufficiently accessible for an event which the public was encouraged to attend in large numbers, and so would not have been chosen. | |
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| The [[gallows_hill_bookstore|Gallows Hill Bookstore]], which opened in 1991 in [[hallden_hall|Hallden Hall]], took its name from this area of campus. | The [[gallows_hill_bookstore|Gallows Hill Bookstore]], which opened in 1991 in [[hallden_hall|Hallden Hall]], took its name from this area of campus. |
| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 4. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 4. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=bulletin|Trinity College Bulletin: | [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38786973|Trinity College Bulletin: The History of the Trinity Campus]], April 1939. |
| "History of the Trinity College Campus"]] (1938-1939). | |
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| [[https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3784h.ct002239/?r=-0.044,-0.065,1.111,0.927,0|Map of pioneer Hartford : founded 1636, incorporated 1784, showing early landmarks and the locations of historical events]] (1927) by James and Ruth Goldie. | [[https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3784h.ct002239/?r=-0.044,-0.065,1.111,0.927,0|Map of pioneer Hartford : founded 1636, incorporated 1784, showing early landmarks and the locations of historical events]] (1927) by James and Ruth Goldie. |
