[2] The largely rural residents tried to secede from Hartford, claiming they were over-taxed merely because their land was not as developed compared to more industrial areas such as nearby Frog Hollow.

However, by 1873, Michael Kane established a brickyard off New Park Avenue, and heralded a period of industrial development that would stimulate rapid growth in a previously isolated part of the city.

"[3] The highly skilled jobs that these factories provided attracted successive waves of new arrivals; Irish first followed by French-Canadian, Scandinavian and German immigrants.

The more established middle-class families began migrating to the suburbs, and were replaced by new immigrants and people moving from other parts of the city.

Parkville station is one of four in Hartford on the CTfastrak bus rapid transit line connecting Downtown to New Britain.