1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens, is the author of a classic American novel entitled Huckleberry Finn and he lived in Hartford for several years.

2. Mark Twain lived in a very elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. Mark Twain's home have windows and a balcony, which reminded the people of a steamboat piloted by Twain on the Mississippi in his youth, that overlooked the large side porch.

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone that was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but he never really liked this newfangled gadget since there was no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the elaborate Paige typesetter which unfortunately for Twain developed the same time as the Linotype machine that was much simpler and less expensive so Twain lost a fortune investing them.

6. Since Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home, he never felt the same about the house again and soon left the house and Hartford but he returned once when he attended the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.