Archived Website Posts
2024
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This page contains the website posts made during 2024. Some of
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Giving Tuesday - December 3, 2024
A great time to join, renew membership, or donate to the
HAMDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Hamden Historical Society welcomes your membership, support and involvement. Our recent activities of preserving Hamden’s history and educating the public include:
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| Jonathan Dickerman House (1792) |
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The Hamden Historical Society
Jonathan Dickerman House
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Talmadge Cider Mill Barn
105 Mount Carmel Avenue
No Admission Charge
CLOSED FOR THE SEASON
See you in Summer 2025
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| Window honoring Major A. Frederick Oberlin in Town Hall rotunda |
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Famous Hamden Veterans
Click here for the stories of Hamden veterans, from the Revolutionary War through World War II, who had notable civilian careers after returning home, and whose names are on town streets.
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Hamden Church Closings
Just over a year ago, on October 15, 2023, a closing service was held at the Church of the Ascension. This was the latest in a series of church closings and mergers happening throughout Hamden. Read the full story here.
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Join the Hamden Historical Society and the Sleeping Giant Park Association in celebrating 100 years of Sleeping Giant State Park on October 12th, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM! This year marks the 100th anniversary of Sleeping Giant State Park, a true Connecticut treasure. The Sleeping Giant Park Association is hosting a full day of festivities at the park, including guided hikes, food trucks, a beer garden, and more! We invite you to join us in honoring the past and supporting the future of this iconic park. Find out more about the centennial celebration and how you can participate at SGPA Centennial Celebration.
Visit the Hamden Historical Society table at the picnic pavilion. We will have a selection of our books for sale.
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Door-Tree Bench Dedicated
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A couple of dozen Hamdenites attended the recent dedication of The Door-Tree Bench at the Jonathan Dickerman House. CLICK HERE to see more photos and what transpired.
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| The Door-Tree - c. 1920 |
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DOOR-TREE BENCH DEDICATION!
YOU'RE ALL INVITED!
The public is invited to help the Hamden Historical Society dedicate the Door-Tree Memorial Bench, made from the wood of the nearly 200-year old historic and iconic Door-Tree, that was destroyed five years ago by a vandal who razed the tree with a chain saw.
The Door-Tree Memorial Bench dedication will take place during our final regular summer Sunday tour of the Jonathan Dickerman House and Talmadge Cinder Mill Barn, 105 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden, on Sunday, August 25th at 2:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
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June 19, 2024 - Five years ago Hamden's landmark "Door-Tree" was destroyed in a senseless act of vandalism. The Regional Water Co., which owns the land where the Door-Tree stood on New Road, generously offered to let the Hamden Historical Society remove any remnants of the tree to memorialize it.
The tree trunk and several detached pieces of the arch were harvested in March 2020 and brought to City Bench in the East Rock section of Hamden, where they were cut into slabs of lumber to be made into souvenirs. Then came COVID-19 and everything stopped for four years.
About two months ago the Hamden Historical Society Board of Directors voted to have City Bench make a memorial bench from the Door-Tree lumber, in hopes of having it ready in time for a dedication on the fifth anniversary of its demise. We came close (see announcement).
Yesterday, June 18th, the folks at City Bench delivered our new Door-Tree Memorial Bench to the Jonathan Dickerman House property, where it will be stored until the dedication on Sunday, August 25th, 2:00 p.m. at 105 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden.
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Obsolete Hamden Streets
Paul Saubestre's ongoing research into the Hamden streets once again has led him into a much wider project. He is compiling a list of the so-called "obsolete streets," that were either proposed streets that never happened, or streets or parts of streets that have disappeared over the years.
CLICK HERE for the Obsolete Streets main page with links to all Hamden streets that have either disappeared, or never were.
CLICK HERE for the Main Page with links to ALL Hamden street names in alphabetical order.
Do you have any comments or corrections to the street information? If so, please send them to Paul at pausau@sbcglobal.net.
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Editor's Note: Paul will be the featured speaker at the Hamden Historical Society's annual meeting. Paul's presentation will be on the history of Hamden streets, how they were developed and the origin of their names.
The exact date of the Society's annual meeting will be announced soon. We'll keep you posted.
9/12/2024
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The Living "Old Glory"
Flag Day, June 14, 2023 - Since Betsy Ross sewed together the first stars and stripes, the flag of the United States of America has done something that happens rarely to other national flags. It has changed. Not only has it undergone a change, it has undergone twenty-six changes, starting with the 1795 addition of two more stars (and stripes) representing Vermont and Kentucky.
Starting with Flag Day 2023, and continuing until Flag Day 2024, the HHS website will feature an official flag design of each of those 26 changes, along with a short summary of what was going on during its tenure, including those who served as Hamden's first selectmen (1786-1965) and mayors (1966- ). Several designs had a very short tenure - just one year - as did our 49-star flag from 1959 to 1960, that bridged the tenures of the second longest and longest designs.
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Note: Frequent visitors to this website will probably recall that this feature was intended to run for 26 weeks, with a different star design each week. However, a number of computer and Internet glitches and the website editor's ongoing health issues have seriously interfered with all updates since last summer. We sincerely apologize for these unexpected problems. We now expect to resume featuring a different flag star design every other week or so until next Flag Day. Keep tuning in. DGJ 12/21/23
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CLICK HERE to check out the 30-star flag (1848-1849):
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