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Whitneyville in 1827. Several grist mills were established in what is now the neighborhood as early as 1640. Eli Whitney chose a mill at the base of East Rock, with water power from the Mill River, as the site of his gun factory in 1798, and built a boarding house for unmarried workers nearby, establishing the village of Whitneyville.
Roughly bounded by W. Main St., Interstate 691, CT 66, Reservoir Ave., Edgewood Dr., and Berlin and Southington town lines: Meriden and, in Hartford County, Berlin and Southington: 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2) and home to Castle Craig. 92
Edgerton Park, also known as the Frederick F. Brewster Estate, is a 20-acre (8.1 ha) public park on Whitney Avenue, straddling the New Haven–Hamden town line in Connecticut. It is site of the demolished Victorian home of Eli Whitney II , known as "Ivy Nook".
The Whitney Avenue Historic District is a historic district in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is a 203-acre (82 ha) district which included 1,084 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
First known use of the Spring Glen name, for J.J. Webb's farm, on an 1868 map of Hamden. A road on the ridge north of East Rock, now Ridge Road, was laid out in 1745 to access farms in the area now known as Spring Glen. The Cheshire Turnpike, now Whitney Avenue, was built in 1800, leading to farming of the land on the western side of the ridge.
A mill for grinding corn was built on a Quinnipiack ford near East Rock in 1642. By 1780 there were eight mills. In time the river provided power for Eli Whitney's gun factory, now the Eli Whitney Museum.
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The traditional abbreviation of the state's name is "Conn."; the official postal abbreviation is CT. Commemorative stamps issued by the United States Postal Service with Connecticut themes include Nathan Hale , Eugene O'Neill , Josiah Willard Gibbs , Noah Webster , Eli Whitney , the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan , which is docked at Mystic ...