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17 unusual facts about New Haven


13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 13th Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut beginning November 25, 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on January 7, 1862 under the command of Colonel Henry Warner Birge.

1st Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 1st Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on April 22, 1861 under the command of Colonel Daniel Tyler.

2011 Connecticut Huskies football team

The team discussed playing the game at the Yale Bowl in New Haven if the field did not become available in time, but on Wednesday, August 31, the team announced the game would be played in East Hartford on Saturday at noon.

27th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment recruited in New Haven, Connecticut, for service in the American Civil War.

2nd Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 2nd Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on May 7, 1861 under the command of Colonel Alfred Howe Terry.

3rd Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on May 14, 1861 under the command of Colonel John L. Chatfield.

6th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 6th Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 12, 1861 under the command of Colonel John Lyman Chatfield.

Interstate 91 in Connecticut

In the 1970s there were plans to extend I-91 across the Long Island Sound from New Haven, Connecticut to Long Island in New York.

Jack Conaty

After teaching high school English for six years in New Haven, Connecticut, Conaty decided to pursue a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Jack Conaty (born September 26, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the chief political correspondent for WFLD-TV in Chicago from 1987 to 2009.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Some of his earliest poems are from this period of his life, published in a New Haven literary paper, The Microscope published by one Cornelius Tuthill.

Meredith Wallace

Meredith Wallace, APRN, CS-ANP is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the Yale University School of Nursing in New Haven, Connecticut.

New England Interstate Route 10

"Route 10" still exists as a continuous state highway in each of its original states, running from New Haven, Connecticut to Woodsville, New Hampshire.

New England Route 10 in Connecticut began in the city of New Haven.

New Haven Knights

They played in New Haven, Connecticut at the New Haven Coliseum, and were the last team to play at that venue, folding when the Coliseum closed in 2002.

New Haven, Missouri

German immigrants helped settle the area through the 19th century, many of them coming from the Borgholzhausen, Germany area in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Whitewater Shaker Settlement

The Whitewater Shaker Settlement (also known as White Water Shaker Village) is a former Shaker settlement near New Haven in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.


1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck

When the train arrived in New Haven, PRR GG1 No. 4876, an electric locomotive, was coupled on, along with several passenger cars from Springfield.

1998 Pilot Pen International

The 1998 Pilot Pen International was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States that was part of the International Series Gold of the 1998 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 1998 WTA Tour.

Bella Angara

As a scholarship grantee for the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program, she pursued her master's degree at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1963.

Bongoût

Their artists books are in numerous prestigious museums and collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fine Art library in Cambridge, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University "Art of the Book" Collection (Sterling Library), New Haven, CT.

Charles Roberts Ingersoll

Ingersoll was born in New Haven, Connecticut, son of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, a New Haven lawyer who also served in the state House of Representatives, the United States Congress, and as United States Minister to Russia and as the mayor of New Haven, and of his wife, Margaret, née Van den Heuvel.

Community Benefits Agreement

Although the community benefits movement began in Los Angeles, it has spread rapidly to other cities, including Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Syracuse, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington.

Dennis Comeau

Dennis Comeau (born 1960, New Haven, CT) is a shoe designer and former new wave vocalist and guitarist.

Don Rubbo

Don Rubbo (born Admondo Dondes Rubbo on December 5, 1926, in New Haven, Connecticut) was a mentor and guide of such renowned creative talents as Peter Max and an affiliate of Andy Warhol in the mid-1960s.

Duke Ellington Fellowship Program

The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students and young musicians from the New Haven public school system.

Elizabeth R. Hooker House

The Elizabeth R. Hooker House, at 123 Edgehill Rd., New Haven, Connecticut, is an English-style Arts and Crafts suburban villa designed by Delano and Aldrich and built in 1914 for Elizabeth R. Hooker.

Fairfield train crash

A shuttle train was put into service to run about every 20 minutes between New Haven and Bridgeport as well as an express bus shuttle service from Bridgeport to Stamford, and regular train connections to Grand Central Terminal.

Greater Hartford

Commuter rail on the same line is proposed, with rush-hour service centered on Hartford and a shuttle to Bradley International Airport from the Windsor Locks station.

Hannibal Kimball

He stayed in that and the carriage business moving first to Norway, Maine then later to the largest carriage manufacturing center, New Haven, Connecticut where he partnered with his brothers to form a company that was later taken over by G .& D. Cook & Co Carriage Makers.

Harriet E. MacGibbon

There were regular productions, including Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Front Page, The Big Fight, and a "transcontinental tour" starring MacGibbon in The Big Fight, which began in Boston, took in New Haven and Hartford, and ended at Caine's storehouse.

Harry Rowe Shelley

He was born in New Haven, Conn. Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris.

Hot in the City

Although the released version of the song has Idol shouting "New York!", other versions of the song were recorded for various radio stations, including ones for such cities as "Boston", "Amarillo", "Minneapolis" and "New Haven".

Joe Rogers, Sr.

A native of Tennessee, Rogers started in the restaurant business as a short-order cook in 1947, at the Toddle House in New Haven, Connecticut.

Johns Hopkins Club

The creation of the Johns Hopkins Club was inspired by Herbert Baxter Adams who, after a visit to the Yale Graduates Club in New Haven wanted to provide a similar facility for Hopkins.

Joseph A. Maturo, Jr.

He has served on the Public Relations Committee of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games held in New Haven.

Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The ex-Reading's electrification system, however, relies on a transformer at Wayne Junction, and separate high-voltage pylons for longer-distance trains, similar to those found on European high-speed rail systems and on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston.

M1917 Enfield

In addition to Remington's production at Ilion, New York and Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Winchester produced the rifle at their New Haven, Connecticut plant, a combined total more than twice the 1903's production, and was the unofficial service rifle.

Mark Levinson

The company was originally based in New Haven, Connecticut, where Mark Levinson had begun to develop high end audio systems; his father was a professor at Yale University.

Mary Silliman

Together, they lived in a house on Elm Street in New Haven and had five children: Rebecca in 1759 (died four days after birth), Joseph (called Jose) in 1761, John in 1762, James in 1764, and Mary in 1766 (died in 1770).

Minna Kleeberg

Minna Cohen Kleeberg (born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, July 21, 1841; died in New Haven, Connecticut, December 31, 1878) was a German-American poet.

New Haven–Hartford–Springfield commuter rail line

When the commuter rail service starts operation, the current Shore Line East EMD GP40-2 locomotives and the rebuilt VRE coaches and cab cars will be used on the New Haven-Springfield line.

Old Campus

The Old Campus is a complex of buildings at Yale University on the block at the northwest end of the green in New Haven, Connecticut, consisting of dormitories, classrooms, chapels, and offices.

Paul Kirchner

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Kirchner attended Cooper Union School of Art but left in his third year, when, with the help of Larry Hama and Neal Adams, he began to get work in the comic book industry.

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The centre supports a publication programme through Yale University Press and co-ordinates its activities with the sister institution, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven.

Quebec Route 143

Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line-Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 3

The first disc was recorded on July 31, 1971, at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, and the second disc was recorded on August 23, 1971, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Roger Wolfson

Roger S. Wolfson is an American TV writer and screenwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, and is most notable for writing for the TV series Fairly Legal, Saving Grace, The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Century City.

Simeon B. Chittenden

Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, he attended Guilford Academy and from 1829 to 1842 engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven.

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

Tri-State Transportation Campaign

In Connecticut, TSTC is working to build support for a removal of Route 34 in New Haven and its replacement with a boulevard and mixed-use development.