New Haven, CT, where I spent some time as a student, was first the lands of the Quinnipiack tribe. On April 24, 1638, 500 English Puritans led by Rev. John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton arrived in the harbor. The Quinnipiacks secured the Puritans' support against rival tribes. New Haven was one of the first planned cities in America. The town was laid out on a grid, with a central block (the Green). Eventually, three of the major streets out of downtown--Dixwell, Goffe, and Whalley--were named for three judges hiding in New England for signing the death warrant of Charles I, while another major street, Whitney, was named for the inventor of the cotton gin who had business roots in New Haven. In the 1670s, frustrated Native tribes attacked many colonial villages, but New Haven missed the worst of the violence; the horrible massacre of the Pequot tribe in nearby Mystic in the 1630s had lessened English-Native tensions in southern Connecticut. New Haven and Hartford were co-capitals in 1701-1873. Collegiate School, which had begun in 1701, moved to New Haven from Old Saybrook in 1718 and changed its name to Yale College.
Here are some of my own photos from around campus, plus my humongous 1879 history of Yale College.
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