Benjamin Eli Smith AM LHD
Editor of the
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
By his plan and under his direction work upon the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia was begun in 1882 refusing then the title of Editor he was authorized to engage Prof. . . . — — Map (db m51853) HM
Edward Robinson Smith AM
Sculptor and Curator
Librarian of the Avery Architectual Library
from its Foundation in Columbia University
Born Jan. 3, 1854 in Beirut Syria
Died Mar. 21, 1921
Son of
Eli and Mehitable Simpkins Butler Smith . . . — — Map (db m51860) HM
In Memory Of
Eli Smith DD
Writer and Missionary
Explorer in Persia and Arabia
He Inaugurated the Translation of the Bible
into Arabic
a Graduate of Yale University
Born Sept. 13, 1801 in Northfield Conn
Died Jan. 11, 1857 in Beirut . . . — — Map (db m51854) HM
Amos Beebe Eaton
Brigadier and Commissary-General U.S. Army
Born May 12 1806
Died February 21 1877
[ back ]
Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1826
He served in the Black Hawk and Seminole Wars.
Through . . . — — Map (db m49583) HM
[ north side ]
Benjamin Silliman
Youngest Son Of
Gold Selleck & Mary
Silliman
Of Fairfield
Born Aug 8, 1779
Died Nov. 24, 1864
During Fifty Years
A Teacher Of Science
In Yale College
Through Life
And Earnest Trustful . . . — — Map (db m50914) HM
In Memory of the Regicide
Col Edward Whalley
Son of Richard Whalley Esq a member of Parliament in the last days of Queen Elizabeth and first cousin of Oliver Cromwell. A stalwart Puritan he rose to high command in the Civil Wars. He was the . . . — — Map (db m34822) HM
In Memory of the Regicide
Col William Goffe
A member of the High Court of Justice which in 1649 tried and condemned King Charles 1st of England and a signer of the kings death warrant. He served with distinction in the Parliamentary Army and in . . . — — Map (db m34817) HM
Dedicated
To The Memory Of
Col. Decius Wadsworth
A Native Of
Farmington In This State
And Late Chief
Of The
Ordnance Department
In The Army Of The
United States
Who
Having Served His Country
Faithfully
And Without Reproach . . . — — Map (db m50913) HM
[ inscription on the column ]
Erected by
The Joint Contributions of
The State of Connecticut
and
The Veteran Associations
of the
Conn. Light Battery and
6th, 7th and 10th Conn. Vols.
As a Sacred and Perpetual
Memorial to . . . — — Map (db m34891) HM
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD 1857
1833 – 1900
Physician
Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed
Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School
First African American Graduate of Yale
First African American to earn an MD from an . . . — — Map (db m49582) HM
[ west side ]
David Humphreys
Doctor of Laws
Member Of
The Academy of Sciences
In Philadelphia
Massachusetts
and
Connecticut
A Member of the Bath
And West of England Society
And Fellow of the Royal Society . . . — — Map (db m48654) HM
1797 1897
Dei Gratia
This tablet commemorates the completion of a century during which these grounds have been sacred to the memory of the dead. The grave stones preserved with reverent care in the crypt beneath the Center Church, are all that . . . — — Map (db m49362) HM
[ west side ]
Eli Whitney
The inventor of the Cotton Gin.
Of useful science & arts the efficient
patron & improver
[ east side ]
In the social relations of life a model of excellence.
While private affection weeps at his . . . — — Map (db m49602) HM
In Memory
Major A. Glenn Miller
0505273
U.S. Army Air Force – W.W. II
Born – Clarinda, Iowa –
March 1, 1904
Missing in Action –
Europe, Dec. 15, 1944
1943 – 1944
418th A.A.F.T.T.C. Band – . . . — — Map (db m49708) HM
Grove Street Cemetery
Has Been Designated A
National Historic Landmark
This Site Possesses National Significance
In Commemorating the History of The
United States of America
Known as the New Haven Burial Ground, this landmark represents . . . — — Map (db m49361) HM
Dedicated to the Veterans
Who Gave Their Lives
In Service to Their Country
May They Rest In Peace
Erected by the Grateful Citizens
Of the City of New Haven
May 27, 1974 Bartholomew F. Guida Mayor — — Map (db m38554) WM
Hezekiah Augur
1791 – 1858
Sculptor
Descendant of settlers
of New Haven Colony
Woodcarver – Inventor
First American Sculptor
A genius upon whom Yale
College conferred the
Honorary Degree of
Master of Arts in 1833 . . . — — Map (db m52017) HM
The original Hillhouse Avenue Bridge was one of fourteen bridges provided by the Farmington Canal Company to carry city streets across the canal. The wooden bridge at this site rested on abutments of unmortared rubble. The New Haven construction . . . — — Map (db m57663) HM
[ front ]
In Memory of the Men of Yale
who, true to Her Traditions,
gave Their Lives that Freedom
Might not perish from the Earth
1914 – Anno Domini – 1918
[ back ]
Erected by the Graduates of
Yale . . . — — Map (db m34884) HM
In Remembrance
Fa September 3
Tua September 11
Weluwa September 14
Kapeli October 30
Yammoni November 4
Kaba December 31
1839
These Amistad captives who survived the voyage on La Amistad from Cuba to Connecticut, . . . — — Map (db m49363) HM
In Memory Of
Isaac Allerton
c. 1586 – 1659
A Mayflower Pilgrim and Colonial Merchant
Who came to New Haven in 1649
He was Interred in the
Old Burying Ground on the New Haven Green
And was the Only Member of the
Mayflower . . . — — Map (db m38555) HM
Ithiel Town
Architect
Inventor of the lattice truss bridge
Designer and builder of Center
Church and Trinity Church and
other notable buildings in New
Haven. One of the founders of
The National Academy of Design.
Born at Thompson, . . . — — Map (db m49603) HM
In Memory Of
Jedidiah Morse
The Father of American Geography
Born in Woodstock Windham Co. Conn. Aug. 23 1761
Died in New Haven June 9 1826
In the joy of a triumphant faith
In Christ
[ back ]
A graduate of Yale College in 1783 . . . — — Map (db m49584) HM
John Gamble Kirkwood
1907 – 1959
Physical Chemist
S.B. – University of Chicago (1926); Philip.D.-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1929); Sc.D. (Honors Causa) - University of Chicago (1954) and Universite Libre de Bruxelles . . . — — Map (db m50915) HM
Nathan Smith
Born in
Woodbury, Conn. 1770
Died
At Washington D.C.
Dec. 6, 1835
Senator
of the
United States
From Connecticut
An Eminent Citizen
A Sound Statesman
An Eloquent Advocate
[ east side ]
Sarah McCrackan . . . — — Map (db m52023) HM
Nathaniel William Taylor
Born at New Milford
June 28, 1786
Graduated at Yale College
1807
Ordained Pastor of the First
Church in New Haven 1812.
Elected Dwight Professor of
Didactic Theology in Yale College
1822.
Died March 10, . . . — — Map (db m49600) HM
From the settlement of New Haven
1638 to 1796
the adjoining ground was occupied
as a common place of burial.
Then a new burying ground was opened
and divided into family lots
and city squares.
In 1813 this church was placed
over the . . . — — Map (db m34821) HM
Noah Lane Farnham
Col.
Of the II, New York Vol's
Oldest Son of Geo. W. & Caroline Thompson
Farnham
Born in New Haven June 6, 1829.
Died at Washington City
Aug. 14, 1861.
Of Wounds Received While
Gallanty Leading His
Regiment, in . . . — — Map (db m49706) HM
Here stood the house of
Noah Webster
Class of 1778
Author of The American
Spelling Book and of An American
Dictionary of the English Language — — Map (db m34888) HM
Othniel Charles Marsh
Born at Lockport, N.Y. October 29, 1831. Died at New Haven, March 18, 1899
Professor of Paleontology in Yale University 1866 – 1899
President of the National Academy of Sciences 1883 – 1895
Eminent as . . . — — Map (db m50917) HM
Pelatiah Perit
Died in New Haven
March 8, 1864,
Aged 78 Years.
He was born in Norwich, Conn. and educated at Yale College. For more than fifty years a merchant in New York, in which city he was for ten years president of the Chanber of . . . — — Map (db m50916) HM
Pierpont Edwards
Son of the Rev. Jonathan & Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Master of Hiram Lodge #1, 1777-78
First Grand Master of Masons in Connecticut, July 8, 1789
Member of the Continental Congress
Lawyer – Legislator – Soldier . . . — — Map (db m52018) HM
Chosen For Settlement A.D. 1637.
Named New Haven
A.D. 1640.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.
O God of Hosts look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine.
A.D. 1638 A company of English . . . — — Map (db m34815) HM
Here in 1639 stood the barn
of
Robert Newman
where the members of the
Colony of New Haven met for
worship and for the purpose
of organizing a government — — Map (db m38553) HM
In Memory Of
The Hon. Roger Sherman, Esqr.
Mayor of the City of New Haven
and Senator of the United States.
He was born at Newtown in Massachusetts
April 19th 1721
and died at New Haven July 23d AD 1793
aged LXXII.
Possessed of a . . . — — Map (db m51864) HM
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Born Jan 4, 1793
Died Feb. 19, 1863
Graduated at Yale College
in 1811
Admitted to the Bar
in this city in 1814
Senator of the State
in 1837 & 1838
Representative
in the General Assembly
in 1840 & 1841 . . . — — Map (db m52022) HM
Ross Granville Harrison
Teacher – Scientist – Administrator
Professor of Zoology at
Yale University 1907 – 38
He was the discoverer of
the tissue-culture method
of studying the develop
mentof living organisms.
[ . . . — — Map (db m52020) HM
Simeon Baldwin
Was Born at Norwich
Dec. 14. 1761
And Died May 26. 1851.
He was graduated at Yale College in 1781. Was a tutor in that institution from 1783 to 1786 when he entered on his profession as a lawyer. He was a representative from . . . — — Map (db m52015) HM
Simeon E. Baldwin
February 5, 1840
January 30, 1927
Inheriting high traditions of public service, he loved and served Connecticut as Justice and Chief Justice of its Supreme Court of Errors for seventeen years and as Governor for four years. He . . . — — Map (db m51861) HM
In Memoriam
Stephen Goodyear
First Deputy Governor
of the
Colony of New Haven
and one of the
Earliest Members of this Church
Died in London 1658
Erected by his descendent Wm. B. Goodyear — — Map (db m34819) HM
In Memory Of
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Tenth President of Yale College
[ south side ]
Born in New York
October 31, 1801
Professor of Greek
In Yale College
1831 -1851
President 1846 – 1871
Died in New Haven
July 1, . . . — — Map (db m52021) HM
Walter Camp
"The Father of American Football"
Walter Camp. Outstanding Yale athlete and coach became the single most important figure in the development of American Football. Recognized as the primary authority on football rules in his lifetime. . . . — — Map (db m49710) HM
This 16.5-acre outdoor space is the central square of the nine squares originally designed in 1638 by the settlers of the New Haven Colony as a common space for cultural, civic, religious and educational purposes and gatherings. It is one of the . . . — — Map (db m227293) HM
This 16.5-acre outdoor space is the central square of the nine squares originally designed in 1638 by the settlers of the New Haven Colony as a common space for cultural, civic, religious and educational purposes and gatherings. It is one of the . . . — — Map (db m227295) HM
[ inscription on the west face of the base ]
Gettysburg Port Hudson Fort Fisher 1861-1865
[ inscription on the east face of the base ]
Bunker Hill Bennington Saratoga 1775-1783
[ inscription on the south . . . — — Map (db m34723) WM
In Recogition Of Their Service In The War Against Terrorism
1st Battalion 102d Infantry
Serving the New Haven area since 1638
These gave their lives defending our freedom
May God bless them
Sgt Felix Delgreco, 9 April 2004
Spc Robert . . . — — Map (db m93215) WM
Dedicated to All Men and Women Wounded in All Our Wars
Combat Wounded Veterans
Military Order of the Purple Heart
1782 1932
My stone is red for the blood they shed.
The medal I bear is my countrys way to show they care.
If I could be . . . — — Map (db m93211) WM
In Honor Of Those Who Served
During The Korean War From
The Greater New Haven Area
25 June 1950 27 July 1953
Forgotten War
Forgotten No More
Freedom Is Not Free — — Map (db m93214) WM
1959 1975
This memorial is dedicated in honor of the men and women who served during the Vietnam War
From the surrounding cities and towns: New Haven, East Haven, West Haven, North Haven, Handen, Orange, Woodbridge — — Map (db m93213) WM
MIA – POW
Robert E Bush John T Gallagher Francis J McGouldrick
KIA
Everett L Anderson William M Meglio Jr Henry L Whaley John H Raber Pierce I Robertson Gary C Richards Archie L Guthrie Calvin Belton Kenneth Cushen . . . — — Map (db m93209) WM
In Honored Memory Of The Servicemen From St. Stanislaus
Parish Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In
World War II
Charles F. Awrajcewicz August 31 1943 England Anthony S. Bednarczyk May 29 1944 Italy Joseph W. Cerlanek June 22 1944 Burma . . . — — Map (db m34733) WM
Corporal
Timothy Francis Ahearn
D-S-C
Company C 102 Us Infantry
Twenty Sixth Division
1898 – 1925
He Best Exemplified The
Spirit Of The Enlisted Men
Of The Yankee Division
[ north side ]
Near Verdun, France on . . . — — Map (db m35724) HM
Erected
In Memory Of
Those From The 11th Ward
Who Sacrificed Their Lives
For Their Country
During World War II
1950
Acampora, Albert Aldieri, Sisto Amorone, Benny Arminio, John Celio, Victor Celone, Samuel Corato, Peter . . . — — Map (db m35310) WM
Memorial Playground
Dedicated
October 2, 1955
This tablet is placed here
in memory of these men who gave
their lives for God and Country
In World War II
Benny Amarone Michael Accurso Andrew Carrano Calvin Dortch Biagio Dell . . . — — Map (db m35309) WM
