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Another terrific tour of a wonderful neighborhood. The old photos are fascinating. Guess I’d better get myself on down to the New Haven Museum to soak up more of this great old city.
Oysters use+ to be a huge industry in the City Point neighborhood (at the foot of Howard Avenue, just to the west of Long Wharf). They’re still harvested in the lower reaches of the Quinnipiac River, before it flows into the harbor.
Really great report. I grew up in New Haven and worked for the Historical Society with your predecessor in photographs, Lucinda Burkepile and librarian Ottila Kōel, Floyd Shumway et al. Superbe reportage and I can't think of anything I would correct or supplement. GREAT WORK
The number of ships and people involved is astounding. I had the impression that there were fewer than couple of hundred involved and the early Colonial Navy only had four ships in the onset. I teach in St. Thomas, VI, an island near St. Eustacius, important in the early part of the war for General Washington. It was wiped out as a commercial port by the English in 1781. Many of those people came to the Danish colony of Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas) and then we grew as a commercial port with the elimination of our chief economic competitor.
I have a connection to the Colonial New Haven. This was viz my 9th Great-Grandmother. She not only married the first Governor of the Connecticut British Colony, but, after his death, she re-married the son of T. Eaton - the first Governor of British New Haven Colony. Maybel "Haynes" Hatlakenden Eaton [d. 1654 during the New Haven smallpox epidemic].
Thank you for a fascinating history. I have friends who live on Howard Ave, just a few blocks from the water. They sent a link to you forwich I'm greatfull. Who knew!
realized on question about UK they use centimeters not inches but in terms of scale one inch to a foot the standard scale remains the same around the world for contemporary miniatures. In the Victorian period and prior, dolls' houses contained objects of different sizes. Today artisan miniature, and manufactured miniatures for the most part use one inch to a foot scale. I did not think about when I answered at the time!
Fascinating! I’ve just begun to explore City Point because a friend has recently moved to a condo there and we walk around the neighborhood. Now I’m even more interested in the history and development of the area!
Any history that does not mention the Yale Coop is truly micro as all get out. The events around Yale's betrayal of the Coop and that Barnes and Noble monster coming in deserve their own chapter. I worked at the Coop from 1990 to 2000. I preferred Book World over on Chapel, where I worked from 1976 to 1990, but the Coop was a great place.
One small error. At 9:20. The Cedars beach resort was on Hallock Ave, between Lamberton St. and Second St., not near South Water St. There was an organized opposition to creating Bay View Park by those who wanted the city to develop the Cedars instead. However, a lawyer pointed out that the railroad likely would take The Cedars by imminent domain, which they in fact did. So, Bay View Park was developed instead, even though it required the infilling of a mosquito-infested salt marsh.
Thank you Jason, well done piece of history. I grew up on Mechanic St., Lovell School, Blake Field, Sheehan Little League. Father worked at American Tube Bending on Mechanic and State that is now part on the Corsair apartments.
I got here while researching, for Black History Month, the Long Wharf extension that William Lanson was hired to build in 1810. Thank you for a time-lapse view of this historical feature of New Haven. This channel is doing a public service that will continue to have meaning well into the next century.
Don't forget the New Haven Pulp and Board company on East Street built in 1901 and later became Simkins Industries. They produced paperboard and folding cartons.
Honestly?? i would like to see it return to when it was hotels and saloons at 3:20!!!! Never cared much for long wharf....a couple of really excellent spanish food trucks- deliscious, a nice vietnam vet park, but other than that would i spend much time down on long wharf?...no
Stay tuned for the next version of the Long Wharf area. A major redesign was approved in early 2024, to realign Long Wharf Drive, and create bike trail and walkable areas, as well as more landscaped green spaces. The food trucks will have a new area, specifically designed for them. The plans are online … just search for them.
