I guess I shouldn’t have been shocked the first time I walked into the Hartford church built by Elizabeth Colt in memory of her late husband Samuel, the millionaire gunmaker. But there he was ...

Samuel Colt's 179-year old gun company supplied both sides of the Civil War. By ABC News. June 15, 2015, 10:07 PM. Rifles sit on display in the Colt's Manufacturing Co. booth on the exhibition ...

Dean Nelson talked about Samuel Colt's career, which included financial struggles and design failures before he returned to Hartford, Connecticut, to build the Colt Firearms factory. Samuel Colt ...

There are few names that invoke the American Frontier more than Samuel Colt, but before his revolvers helped win the West, Colt was a struggling gunmaker. On Jan. 4, 1847, Colt won a contract to ...

The city of Paterson, N.J., has had bad luck with its Colts – it keeps losing them to Hartford. First it was legendary firearms magnate Samuel Colt, who closed his gun-making factory, the Patent ...

In May 1861, Samuel Colt was Hartford’s richest, most famous citizen. A charismatic, driven entrepreneur, Colt possessed inventive genius, boundless imagination and unsurpassed marketing prowess.

For the second time in less than a year, the Samuel Colt monument has been defaced, this time by vandals using black spray paint to scrawl graffiti across the memorial to one of the city’s most ...

In Hartford’s historic 106-acre Colt Park, two long-vacant buildings formerly owned by wealthy industrialist Samuel Colt are about to get a major boost from $1 million in federal money ...