Happy 375th anniversary, New Haven, CT!

[CTyankee]

Celebration on the historic New Haven Green took place today. Among the celebrations: Saturday’s celebration on the Green will kick off with opening remarks and then the re-planting of the Lincoln Oak, which was originally planted on the New Haven Green in 1909 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but fell over during Hurricane Sandy last October. http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/the-scene/Lasers-to-Light-Up-New-Haven-for-375th-Birthday-204520291.html

We're old in New Haven, but still going bold!

[Divernan]

1. Founded in 1638! Get out the Way Back Machine or the Tardis!

Love to see a Dr. Who episode based in New Haven in 1638.
Happy Birthday to New Haven!
A Puritan minister named John Davenport led his flock from exile in the Netherlands back to England and finally to North America in the spring of 1637. The group arrived in Boston on the ship Hector on June 26, but decided to strike out on their own, thanks to their impression that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was lax in its religious observances.

That fall, Theophilus Eaton led an exploration party south to the north shore of Long Island Sound in search of a suitable site. He purchased land from the Indians at the mouth of the Quinnipiac River. In the spring of 1638 the group set out, and on April 14 they arrived at their 'New Haven' on the Connecticut shore. The site seemed ideal for trade, with a good port lying between Boston and New Amsterdam which gave good access to the furs of the Connecticut River valley settlements of Hartford and Springfield. However, while the colony succeeded as a settlement and religious experiment, its future as a trade center was some years away.

[CTyankee]

2. The New Haven Green is famous all by itself...

The upper Green on Elm is bordered by "Quality Row", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven: the federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern (now the Yale Elihu Senior Society), the federal Eli W. Blake House (now the Graduate Club), the federal John Pierpont house (now the Yale University Visitor Center) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis (future home of Dwight Hall, the student community service organization at Yale).[19]

The Green is a pleasant place now to sit on a park bench and enjoy a hot dog from the Sabrett truck nearby or just relax.