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About the Town of Hamden
Connecticut (CT)
06511, 06514, 06517 & 06518

Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant", as you can see in the picture.

Hamden is home to Quinnipiac University.

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About Hamden, CT:

Originally settled by Puritans as part of the town of New Haven, Hamden was purchased by Theophilus Eaton and Reverend John Davenport in 1638 from the local Quinnipiack Native American tribe. It remained a part of New Haven until 1786 when 1,400 local residents incorporated the area as a separate town, naming it after the English statesman John Hampden.

Largely developed as a nodal collection of village-like settlements, (which remain distinct today,) including Mount Carmel (home to Quinnipiac University), Whitneyville, Spring Glen, West Woods, and Highwood, Hamden has a long-standing industrial history. In 1798, four years after Eli Whitney began manufacturing the cotton gin in New Haven, he made arms for the U.S. Government at a mill site in Hamden, where a waterfall provided a good source of power. At that site, Whitney introduced the modern era of mass production with the concept of interchangeable parts.

The major thoroughfare through Hamden has been named Whitney Avenue in honor of Eli Whitney, and it runs past Whitney's old factory, now the Eli Whitney Museum.

Whitney constructed stone houses for his employees in the nearby area, which is still referred to as Whitneyville; this is believed to be the first example of employer-provided homes in U.S. history. In 1806, the dam that Eli Whitney built at the mill site was enlarged to create a reservoir, Lake Whitney. The first truss bridge in the United States was erected nearby over the Mill River in Whitneyville in 1823, but has since been replaced.

The Farmington Canal, which ships traveled from New Haven northward, passed through Hamden between 1825 and 1848 until it was supplanted by railroad travel. The canal right-of-way has become, in recent years, a popular walking and bicycling trail, passing by some of the well-preserved locks of the canal, as well as some of Hamden's oldest sites. Before its use as a walking and bicycling trail, many local residents rode their motocross bikes on the Farmington Canal.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hamden received a steady influx of immigrants, most notably from Italy and Ireland. To this day, a large part of Greater New Haven's Italian-American community resides in Hamden.

During the post-war period, Hamden underwent significant suburban development. Much of the southern section of town is urbanized and is difficult to distinguish from neighboring New Haven. The northern section of town, however, retains a more rural character, and has the distinct neighborhood of Mount Carmel. This area of town is the location of the unique Sleeping Giant hill formation that is the source of the town's nickname.

Neighborhoods:

Augerville
Centerville (Town Center)
Dunbar Hill
Hamden Plains
Highwood
Mix District
Mount Carmel
Spring Glen
State Street
Whitneyville
West Woods (Hamden Hills)

Schools:

West Woods Elementary School
Church Street Elementary School
Spring Glen Elementary School
Shepherd Glen Elementary School
Ridge Hill Elementary School
Dunbar Hill Elementary School
Bear Path School
Helen Street Elementary School
Alice Peck Early Learning Center
Hamden Middle School (grades 7 and 8)
Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School (grades: Kindergarten through 8)
Highville Mustard Seed Charter School (High school)
Eli Whitney Technical High School
Hamden High School (grades 9-12)
Hamden Hall Country Day School
Laurel Oaks Adventist School (grades 1-8)
Sacred Heart Academy
St. Stephen School (Roman Catholic, grades pre-K to 8)
St. Rita School (Roman Catholic, grades pre-K to 8)
West Woods Christian Academy (evangelical Christian, grades K-12)
SKF Academy
Quinnipiac University
Paier College of Art
Mount Sacred Heart College, a Catholic women's college associated with Sacred Heart Academy, closed in 1997

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