You are standing on a threshold that connects two moments that have shaped cities since the middle of the 19th century.
Factories like Whitney's were drawn to transportation hubs, the cities to which trains and ships carried fuel, materials, . . . — — Map (db m250339) HM
Eli Whitney completed this Barn in 1816. He had contemplated the design during a year that was full of transitions. The War of 1812 had ended. His Armory had won a new federal contract. He had turned 50. When Whitney wrote his friend Josiah . . . — — Map (db m264948) HM
In 1798. Whitney realized that he had underestimated the scope of the contract with the government that he had undertaken. His most compelling challenge: I have not only the arms but...(the) Armorers to make. A first step, Whitney had to . . . — — Map (db m264952) HM
The Town of Hamden gratefully accepts the donation of the Campanile and the electronic Carillon by the children of Philip Paolella in honor of Ciro Paolella, founder and president of the Plasticrete Corporation.
Born in Italy, . . . — — Map (db m28699) HM
Eli Whitney constructed this shed in 1804 to store charcoal. It is the oldest of the surviving Whitney buildings. Four storage buildings, built with site-quarried stone, nestled into this hillside. To your right, you can still see the trace of a . . . — — Map (db m251928) HM
In 1860, Eli Whitney Jr. confronted two massive problems...
• His armory was thirsty for power. The 6 foot log dam he had inherited supplied limited and inconsistent power. Steam engines gave his rivals superior muscle.
• New . . . — — Map (db m251934) HM
In memory of
Edgar Laing Heermance
1876 - 1953
On the twenty fifth anniversary of the blue blazed hiking trails, - one of his many projects in the fields of outdoor recreation and conservation of natural resources. — — Map (db m296924) HM
On this site in 1798, Eli Whitney established the first manufactory for the production of fire arms in the United States. Here he invented and used the uniformity system of manufacture now adopted throughout the world. — — Map (db m264945) HM
ASM International - The Materials Information Society - has designated the Eli Whitney Armory an historical landmark. "On this site between 1798 and 1825, Eli Whitney built the first significant independent American armory. The development of . . . — — Map (db m28750) HM
Eli Whitney (1765-1825), inventor and manufacturer, creator of the cotton gin who developed the system of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, first used in his factory just south of here to produce muskets for the U.S. Government. . . . — — Map (db m264946) HM
The Forge
Whitney constructed a stone forge here in 1804. It was the first and largest of the five buildings he constructed on this side of the Mill River. In this building, blacksmiths shaped and welded musket barrels with hammers and . . . — — Map (db m251930) HM
The Freedom Tree
With The Vision of Universal Freedom
For All Mankind
This Tree Is Dedicated By
The Citizens of Hamden
To All
Prisoners Of War
And
Missing In Action
1972 — — Map (db m28698) HM
Incorporated in 1786, this town was originally part of New Haven and was named for John Hampden, noted English statesman. In 1798, at the foot of Lake Whitney, Eli Whitney pioneered in the use of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of arms . . . — — Map (db m250594) HM
The Heaton Trail is one of several unmarked,
historic trails in the Sleeping Giant State Park.
It began on Mt. Carmel Avenue and led to the
top of the Third Ridge, where the Weiser family
had a home. The family vacated the home when
the land . . . — — Map (db m296043) HM
This cast iron 36" x 36" x 48" tee and 1/16 bend were installed in 1905 on the finished water pipeline for the original Whitney Treatment Plant.
180 billion gallons of water flowed through these fittings to our customers during the 85 years . . . — — Map (db m264947) HM
Judge Cook's Oxen
Road is one of several
unmarked, historic trails
in the Sleeping Giant
State Park.
Willis Miller Cook purchased the Giant's Head
in 1883 and built a cabin
on its highest point. The
Oxen Road was carved
out to make it . . . — — Map (db m295802) HM
Judge Cook's Oxen
Road is one of several
unmarked, historic trails
in the Sleeping Giant
State Park.
Willis Miller Cook purchased the Giant's Head
in 1883 and built a cabin
on its highest point. The
Oxen Road was carved
out to make it . . . — — Map (db m295805) HM
This river has stories to tell.
• Most seasons the Mill River will show you birds that inhabit her banks, or stop to feed on their Fall or Spring migrations.
• Behind you, you'll hear the roar of water spilling over the dam that . . . — — Map (db m265181) HM
In 1638, 500 Puritans moved from the Massachusetts Colony to establish New Haven as a religious colony two miles south of where you are standing. Their leaders, the Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, deemed the harbor secure and the . . . — — Map (db m265176) HM
(upper image)
New Haven City Hospital nurses, 1914. The Connecticut Training School for Nurses
existed from 1873 until 1923 when the Yale School of Nursing was founded and
established a new pattern of nursing education based on an . . . — — Map (db m276245) HM
In 1826, William Giles Munson sketched the Whitney Armory...a year after Whitney had died. Munson produced
at least three paintings of the site over the next two decades. Munson contributes to Whitney's reputation. At least three forces helped . . . — — Map (db m252351) HM
Pardee Rose Garden
Planted and Maintained under
the Will and Bequest of
William Scranton Pardee
of this City as a
lasting Memorial of his Mother
Nancy Maria English Pardee
MCMXXII — — Map (db m34721) HM
Welcome To
Pearl Harbor Memorial Park
Dedicated in 2018, in memoriam of those who gave their lives serving the US. armed forces during the December 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, the park features architectural elements mimicking the Pearl . . . — — Map (db m265249) HM WM
A significant chapter of Eli Whitney's legacy here is written in stone. Look at the foundations of the Barn, the Bridge, the Boarding House, the Forge. Whitney built structures to last. Eons ago, volcanic pressure lifted the East Rock sill and left . . . — — Map (db m251929) HM
Eli Whitney died in 1825. His son. Eli Whitney, Jr. was just 5 years old. The Blake brothers, Whitney's nephews, ran the Armory for 10 years. Trustees managed the work until 1842 when Whitney Jr. age 21, graduated from Princeton and returned to . . . — — Map (db m265245) HM
The Sleeping Giant began forming about two hundred million years ago, when molten magma welling up from deep belowground became trapped in an underground chamber on its way to the surface. As the magma in this chamber cooled and solidified, it . . . — — Map (db m295791) HM
You are standing on the highest point of the Sleeping Giant range often called, euphemistically, "the Mountain" (739 feet above sea level). From here, for more than 1,400 years, the Native Quinnipiac surveyed their homeland - from vast woodlands . . . — — Map (db m296779) HM
For more than 10,000 years, humans have traversed the rugged, rocky ridges known as the Sleeping Giant. The Indigenous Quinnipiac forged trails for travel, gathering, and hunting; the colonizing Europeans used these same pathways and created new . . . — — Map (db m296925) HM
Indigenous people value storytellers, who often speak about sacred sites that are integral to their culture. Sleeping Giant is one such place. This area, known today as Hamden, is part of the Quinnipiacs' ancestral territory. Through oral . . . — — Map (db m296848) HM
The Town Bridge
Ithiel Town patented the design for this bridge in 1820. Town was a New Haven-based pioneer in American architecture and engineering. He designed both Center Church and Trinity Church that still grace New Haven's Green. He . . . — — Map (db m252731) HM
The Acme Wire Company built this building in 1904. it joined a jumble of buildings that had survived from the Armory years.
The Acme Wire Company produced magnet wire: fine, soft copper wire, insulated with a varnish film. Magnet wire wound . . . — — Map (db m265177) HM
Rivers powered Connecticut's early prominence in manufacturing. Our Mill river alone powered 13 factories in the 19th century. Of those, the Whitney site endured the longest.
Water power is renewable but not always reliable. Freezing in the . . . — — Map (db m252348) HM
Walter Owen Filley
1877 - 1961
Forester and Pioneer
In natural resource conservation
He did much to establish many state parks and
forests for the benefit and enjoyment of all,
and he was an outstanding leader in the
protection and . . . — — Map (db m296782) HM
