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Message: [QUOTE="Danzz, post: 2853476, member: 421"] During redevelopment in the 60's The Hog River was covered up in the Frog Hollow area from the Woodbine St area (old Underwood factory area) past Pope Park. The water rats in that area were gigantic. As a kid in the North End I wasn't allowed to go near the Hog River behind Bowles Park Project but of course I did anyway. The real name is the Park River but picked up the name Hog because it ran through the Copaco slaughterhouse area in Bloomfield and rumor was the Bernstein brothers dumped their pig blood from the slaughterhouse in the river. Copaco was known to Northenders as Sloppy Charlies and nobody ever called the river Park. And nobody from Hartford ever called the Park St area Parkville either. It was always Frog Hollow. [/QUOTE]