Walking Through History: A Tour of New Haven's Past & Present

New Haven is many things: the historical home of the Quinnipiac and other indigenous people, the colony's first planned city, and home of Yale, of course. But, how well do you know the city beyond Yale?

In this walking tour, OISS is bringing the you to the historically significant sites to relive New Haven's past: the first interactions between native Americans and European settlers, important state matters that transpired at the former co-capital of Connecticut, the trials surrounding La Amistad incident, the industrialization of the city and its subsequent deindustrialization, and Yale's role in the city development.

If we are lucky, we may also be able to visit New Haven Crypt, where 137 grave stones of New Haven’s founders and earliest citizens dating from 1687 were preserved.

This tour relies on research made possible by the following works:

• A Guide to Historic New Haven, Connecticut by Colin Caplan
• New Haven : an illustrated history by Mallory Shumway and Richard Hegel
• The other side of prospect : a story of violence, injustice, and the American city by Nicholas Dawidoff
• Hidden History of New Haven by Kathleen Hubbard and Robert Hubbard

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