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    Hamden
    Hamden
    Hamden
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    Hamden

    By Hamden Historical Society

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    Hamden is nicknamed "the Land of the Sleeping Giant" after the series of hills within its bounds that resemble a recumbent giant. But Hamden is much more than the resting place of the legendary "Hobbomock." The town's history is illustrated here in Hamden, which contains photographs dating from the 1840s through the late 1900s. These vintage images depict the contours of community life in Hamden. The collection highlights famous residents, including Eli Whitney and Thornton Wilder; local eccentrics, including the wandering Leatherman and William Beamish, a female printer who lived as a man; changes in the land from forest to farmland to suburbia; businesses, institutions, civic organizations, and churches; and people at play-from skaters on Lake Whitney to hikers on the Sleeping Giant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateApr 28, 2004
    ISBN9781439615690
    Hamden
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    Hamden Historical Society

    Hamden was compiled by members of the Hamden Historical Society, including town historian Martha Becker. The photographs in this collection are drawn almost entirely from the society's archive. Proceeds from the book will benefit the historical society.

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      Hamden - Hamden Historical Society

      1857.

      INTRODUCTION

      The town of Hamden, Connecticut, has a unique character. From its earliest settlement in the 17th century until its incorporation in 1786, the communities that composed it were a part of New Haven Colony, founded in 1638 by London Puritans. Thus, Hamden’s past is very much a part of New Haven’s, but it is also distinct. New Haven rapidly urbanized during the 19th century, while outlying areas, including Hamden, maintained a rural character right into the 20th century. Though named in good New England fashion after a 17th-century English reformer who fought with Oliver Cromwell, Hamden is an artificial entity; it has no historic town center, and it lacks the traditional town green, or common. It was created by gathering together a number of agricultural hamlets and small industrial centers, most famously, Eli Whitney’s factory village. Efforts to bring the town together and link it to the outside world—for example, the construction in the 1820s of the Farmington Canal, which ran the entire length of the town—at once highlighted the internal struggles for influence, the growing diversity of the town, and the challenges of modernization.

      The photographs contained in Images of America: Hamden illustrate the rich story of the town’s efforts to create a unified identity while confronting the forces of social and economic change, ethnic diversification, and the evolution of town institutions such as schools, civic organizations, and businesses. The illustrations are organized to reflect the separate identity of each discrete section or district within the town and to show how each area contributed to the overall character of the town. Thus, the images range from individual portraits—family patriarchs and matriarchs, young men going to war, or local eccentrics such as the wandering Leatherman—to family groups, both formal and informal; changes in the land, from forest to farmland to suburbia; businesses and institutions; civic organizations, from baseball teams to school classes to police and fire departments; workers, agricultural and industrial, resident and migrant; churches and their members and leaders; and people at play, from skaters on Lake Whitney to hikers in Sleeping Giant State Park.

      Through the selection and arrangement of these photographs, the town’s evolution from a collection of separate agricultural and rural villages into a modern suburb is illustrated. Although this evolution is common to any number of towns, the experience of each locality is inimitable and fascinating; Hamden’s is no exception.

      The vast majority of images in this volume are from the collections of the Hamden Historical Society, supplemented by some photographs from the New Haven Colony Historical Society. The communities that make up Hamden were a part of New Haven colony; thus, the history of Hamden is inextricably bound with that of the parent city. Families from New Haven settled, farmed, and built mills and factories in Hamden and in surrounding towns.

      The photographs in the collections of the Hamden Historical Society in Miller Library, numbering in the thousands, span the history of photography, from its advent with daguerreotypes and tintypes dating from the 1840s to the present. This visual essay includes representative images from the antebellum period through the mid-20th century, when the town’s evolution from a collection of early industrial villages into a modern suburb was, for the most part, complete.

      Photographs in this volume belonging to the Hamden Historical Society were taken from the John Della Vecchia collection, the Raymond Rochford scrapbook collection, the G. H. Welch collection, the Albert Connally scrapbook, the Nancy Sachse papers, and the Rachel Hartley papers. Photograph credits are as follows: Lewis R. Berlepsch, T. S. Bronson, Bernard S. Budge, Myron W.

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