,A/^5r V 1 c> v| Cf?e national Society, Sons of tt^c Qmerican Kcpolution tDtll Ijolb its ^ourteentl? Ctnnual Congress, april 30 anb ZlTaij \, \<^03, Xltvo Vfavzn, Conn. (Beneral Statement The business headquarters of the Association will be in the New Haven House. All delegates are requested to register there as soon as possible after their arrival. General infor- mation may also be obtained there regarding transportation, objects of local interest, etc., and the, certificates entitling holders to a re- duced rate on return trip wij^ there be countersigned by the proper officer. Street Car Lines run from the Depot to the New Haven House; also within a block of the Tontine Hotel, and within two blocks of the Davenport Hotel, passing, en route, the Hotel Garde and the Oneco Hotel. Cransportatton E.xcuRSiON Rates of fare and one-third, on the cer- tificate plan, has been secured from railroads of the New England, Trunk Line, and Central Passenger Associations. This reduced rate applies only from certificate points, which embrace practically all the larger stations. Tickets through to New Haven should be pur- chased at such point, securing from Agent, at the same time, the prescribed form of certificate, which, when duly countersigned at New Haven by Albert J. Squier and the representative of the railroad, will entitle you to purchase at New Haven a return ticket from New Haven to your starting point, at one-third limited fare. Such tickets must be bought and used within three days (or a reasonable time) of the opening of the meeting ; the return ticket must be countersigned at New Haven on either Thursday or Fri- day, April 30th or May ist. ^otels New Haven House, Chapel and College streets, American plan, $4.00 per day, one and two in a room, and $5.00 per day, with bath. Hotel Garde, 36 to 46 Meadow street, American plan, $2.50 per day and upwards. Tontine Hotel, Church and Court streets, European plan, rooms $1.50 to $2.00 per day. Oneco Hotel, 14 and 16 Church street, European plan, rooms $1.00 and $1.50 per day; $1.50 and $2.00, with bath. Hotel Davenport, Orange and Court streets, European plan, rooms $1.00 and $1.50 per day; American plan, $2.50 and $3.00 per day. Further information regarding hotels and boarding houses may be obtained of William E. Chandler, Treasurer, P. O. Box 785, New Haven, Conn. Some Cecal 0bjects of interest New Haven, first called Quinnipiack by the Indians, and later named Rodenburgh by the Dutch travelers on account of the red rocks in its neighborhood, was founded in 1638. A granite tablet in the wall of the brick building on the corner of College and George streets is placed near the site of the oak under which John Davenport preached his first sermon upon the day of the landing. On the stump of this tree stood, at a later period, the anvil of the father of Lyman Beecher and grandfather of Henry Ward Beecher. Newman's barn, in which the fundamental Agreement, or Constitution of the Colony, was adopted June 4th, 1639, is supposed to have been not far from the site of the building of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, iTctD ^avm Colony r^istorical Society Builbing The New Haven Colony Historical Society was chartered by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, May, 1863. Its building on Grove street, fronting Hillhouse avenue, was erected and presented to the Society in commemoration of James Edward English and of his wife, Caroline Fowler English, by their son, Henry Fowler English, 1893. The rare collection of antiquities in the building will undoubtedly interest many, if not all, visitors. The Noah Webster House. The house in which Noah Webster worked and died, now occupied by Mrs. Henry Trowbridge, stands on the southwest corner of Grove and Temple streets, directly east of the Historical Society's building. During an interval of his college career he served in a company of militia, raised to oppose General Burgoyne. At one time his company acted as the escort to General Washington, and Webster has recorded that, "It fell to my humble lot to lead this company with music." The Benedict Arnold House, 155 Water street, built by Arnold about 1771. He left it in 1776. Bought by Noah Webster in 1798 and occupied by him from 1802 until 1812. The house is now used for the storage of lumber. The Wooster House stood at 282 George street. This house was the property of Major-General David Wooster, who was born at Stratford, March 2, 1710, and was graduated at Yale in 1738. Was a lieutenant in the provincial army during the war between England and Spain. In 1745 he was a captain in the regiment of Colonel Burr, which participated in the capture of Louisburg, and was finally pro- moted to the rank of brigadier-general during the French war. He received his death wound in the engagement near Ridgefield between General Tryon's forces and the American troops, from the effects of which he died May 2, 1777. The house was taken down in 1895 to afford a site for the Zunder School. The Roger Sherman House. The original house stood on the present site of the Union League Club, 1032 Chapel street. Subse- quently Sherman built another house on the same home lot, a little westward, 1050 Chapel street, now occupied by stores, where he lived and died in 1793. Roger Sherman, a sterling patriot, was the only man whose privilege it was to take part in the making and signing of four great state papers: The Declaration of Rights; the Declara- tion of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and the Consti- tution of the United States. The Elbridge Gerry House was located on the southeast cor- ner of Temple and Wall streets. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Vice President of the United States in 1813. The Hillhouse House, 83 Grove street. Here James. Hillhouse spent the early years of his life. Built in 1762 by his uncle, James Abraham Hillhouse. James Hillhouse, as a member of the Gov- ernor's Foot Guard, marched for Cambridge on the Lexington Alarm, and at the time of General Tryon's invasion of New Haven, as cap- tain of the same company, marched to West Bridge to repel the invaders. Was United States Senator for four terms. The Eli Whitney House, on northwest corner of Elm and Orange streets. The inventor of the cotton-gin died here January 8, 1825. John Trumbull, Patriot and Artist. Upon a tablet over his grave, under the Yale Art School, appears the following inscription: CoL. John Trumbull, Patriot and Artist, Friend and Aid^ OF Washington, lies beside his wife beneath this gallery of art. lebanon, 1756. new york, 1843. The Tryon Invasion of New Haven. The old cannon cap- tured from the British at the time of the invasion are planted as corner posts: Corner of Temple and Center streets. Corner of Union and Wooster streets. Corner of Court and State streets. The Franklin Elm, planted April 17, 1790, the day of Franklin's death, on the corner of Church and Chapel streets. The New Haven City Burial Ground, on Grove street, between Prospect and Ashmun streets, was established in 1797 by James Hillhouse, to whom the city is also indebted for most of its trees, and was the first burying ground in the world to be laid out in family lots, having been opened seven years in advance of Pere Lachaise. Many eminent men lie in this cemetery; among them Roger Sherman, Lyman Beecher, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Admiral Andrew H. Foote, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, and many presi- dents and professors of Yale University. In the Crypt of Center Church, on the Green, which will be open for delegates to the Congress, may be found many tombstones of historical interest. The grave of John Dixwell, the regicide, stands directly back of Center Church. The Park System of New Haven includes East and West Rock Parks; Fort Hale and Fort Wooster Parks, on the east shore; Bay View Park on the west shore; Water Side and Edgewood Parks; and the Green, or Public Square, with several smaller Parks in the central parts of the city. Fort Wooster Park Tablet. Bronze tablet unveiled by the General Humphreys Branch, No. i, of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, on July 5, 1895, the one hun- dred and sixteenth anniversary of the Invasion of New Haven by the British. This location, known as Beacon Hill, was formerly an Indian Burying ground, afterwards called Fort Wooster. Some- years since it was purchased by the city and named Fort Wooster Park. The Buildings of Yale University, founded in 1700, have spread from the original college square on the west side of College street in different directions. The more important ones are indi- cated upon the accompanying map. The Hopkins Grammar School, founded in 1660, stands on the northwest corner of High and Wall Streets. The New High School and Boardman Manual Training School stand on Broadway and York Square. They are models of their kind. The Commercial and Industrial Interests of New Haven have been a prominent feature of its life from the beginning. Its Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1794. The Whitney Armory was founded by the inventor of the cotton-gin, and is now owned by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It was here that fire- arms with interchangeable parts were first made. The Winchester Repeating Arms Company is located on Winchester avenue, and employs about 3,000 persons. J. B. Sargent & Co., manufacturers of shelf hardware, have extensive buildings on Water street. The first telephone exchange in the world was established in New Haven in January, 1877, and the general offices of the Southern New Eng- land Telephone Company are here. The carriage industry, estab- lished here by James Brewster in 1810, is still one of the leading indus- tries of the southeastern part of the city. A large number of firms are now engaged in the manufacture or sale of carriages or parts of carriages. In the same neighborhood are the extensive works of the New Haven Clock Company, of the Candee Rubber Company, Na- tional Steel and Wire Company, New Haven Rolling Mill and numerous other large industries. program CI?ursbay Reception of Delegates at New Haven House; Meeting of Con- gress at Historical Society Building, 10 a. m. Visit Yale University Buildings at 4 p. m. Reception at the Yale Art School in the evening. Meeting of Congress at 10 a. m. Carriage drive around the city and to East Rock Park and Fort Wooster and Beacon Hill, 2 p. m. Banquet, Music Hall, 117 Court street, 6.30 p. m. €xecutitJe Committee Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Chairman William E. Chandler, Treasurer Isaac W. Birdseye HoFART L. HoTCHKiss, Secretary to Coiium'ttee Committee on 3noitation Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Chairman Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D. D. Col. Rutherford Trowbridge Committee on Heception Jonathan Trumbull, L. Wheeler Beecher Frank C. Bushnell William H. Ely Hon. James A. Howarth Seymour C. Loomis Gen. Phelps Montgomery Col. Charles W. Pickett Col. Rutherford Trowbridge Hon. Rollin S. Woodruff Col. Samuel Daskam Henry C. Sherwood Merrit Heminway Hon. Isaac W. Brooks Franklin Farrel Asa C. Bushnell Amos F. Barnes James D. Dewell, Jr. Frederick J. Easterbrook Nathan B. Fitch Charles A. Ingersoll William D. Scranton Louis B. Curtis Geo. B. Martin Wm. H. Atwood Wm. E. Chandler Chairman Hon. Charles Brooker Hon. James D. Dewell Col. Simeon J. Fox Rev. E. S. Lines, D.D. Hon. Charles S. Mersick Col. N. G. Osborn Charles W. Scranton Herbert C. Warren Samuel A. York Hon. Charles G. Stone Hon. John P. Kellogg Gen. Russell Frost Col. Frank W. Cheney Edward C. Beecher Edward I. At water George T. Bradley Frederick T. Bradley James E. English Edward L. Fox Franklin H. Mason Edward Taylor William H. Moseley Robert W. Hill N. W. Kendall George F. Newcomb Committee on Decorations Everett E. Lord. Chairman John N. Champion Committee on ZHusic Frank A. Corbin, Chairman Frederick S. Ward Committee on Banquet Wilson H. Lee, Chairman Geo. a. Alling Benjamin R. English John H. Platt Committee on ^TTarking historical places Nathan Easterbrook, Jr., Chairmatt Edward C. Beecher Committee on ^otels Gen. George H. Ford, Chairman Wilson H. Lee Benjamin R. English Committee on Carriages Benj. R. English, Chairman Sherwood S. Thompson William J. Atwater Committee on Cransportation William E. Chandler (general Committee Gen. E. S. Greeley, Chairman Hon. N. D. Sperry Gen. George H. Ford Gen. Samuel E. Merwin Hon, Eli Whitney Hon. Asa W. Brooks Dr. G. F. C. Williams Hon. Morris- W. Beardsley Hon. Charles Hopkins Clark Major Lewis R. Cheney Nathaniel L. Bradley John W. Coe Hon. Hobart L. Hotchkiss Gen. William A. Aiken Franklin H. Hart Wm. E. Chandler E. P. Root Hon. H. Wales Lines The Price, Lee &• Adkins C». Print I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 012 608 957