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Hartford and the insurance business
1810
Hartford, Connecticut
Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Merchants who had insured ships began writing fire policies, and paying out in full after the 1835 New York fire and the 1871 Chicago fire made the city's name. Hartford has been the insurance capital of the world since, which is why a small city has that skyline.
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