Golf in East Hartford

East Hartford is a Hartford County city directly across the Connecticut River from the capital, a community whose identity has been shaped by the Pratt and Whitney aircraft engine manufacturing that defined the twentieth-century economy of the Connecticut River valley's eastern bank. East Hartford Golf Club serves the city's diverse residential community with municipal golf at an accessible price point, providing an important recreational amenity for a city that has worked to maintain quality public facilities through the economic transitions that have followed the decline of aerospace manufacturing. The town's long industrial heritage along the Connecticut River—from agriculture to the Pratt and Whitney aerospace manufacturing center—gives East Hartford a working-class identity that distinguishes it from the more purely residential communities on the eastern bank of the river.