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16. Hazardville, Connecticut

While its name might conjure up visions of a town coated in toxic waste, Hazardville was actually named after a man called Colonel Augustus G. Hazard. Hazard was a gunpowder manufacturer during the Civil War who established 100 powder mills across Enfield, an area of which Hazardville is now a part of. Funny enough, more than 40% of the gunpowder used during the Civil War came from the mills in Hazardville.

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