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Custom Log Cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains on 16 acres with a creek and waterfall right out your door. Open the windows to let the fresh mountain air in and hear the creek and waterfall. At an elevation of 3100 feet you can always have a cool breeze.
Log Cabin is located on the road that takes you to Cataloochee to see the elks (about a 15 minutes drive). It is amazing view, with hiking and you can see deer and other wildlife. Watch for an elk in your yard too. Enjoy dinner on the 41 ft x 12 ft covered front deck with 3 ceiling fans. You can gaze at the stars from the front deck in the hot tub.
Cook an amazing meal in the fully stocked kitchen. You have a great view from wherever you are. Guaranteed you will not want to go home and you definitely will be back.
Things of Interest in the Area: Custom log cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains on 16 acres. You have the amazing view of the mountains and are only 15 minutes up the road to Cataloochee to see the elks. You are conveniently located. Areas of interest are Maggie Valley - 10 minutes away, Cherokee - 30 minutes away, Asheville - 30 minutes away, Waynesville - 15 minutes away, and 45 minutes - 1 hour to Gatlinburg, TN. There is rafting, hiking, horseback riding, tubing, the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, restaurants, antique shops, and many other things to pass the day away. You are only 30 minutes from the Appalachian Trail to Max Patch Bald too.
Enjoying the Cabin: Please bring your book and enjoy the peacefulness of sitting by the creek and reading or just enjoying a bench under a tree to watch the trout and waterfall. Hike up the woods and enjoy the 16 acres. Spend your evenings on the front porch in the rocking chairs waiting for the wildlife to walk by or soak away the sore muscles in the inviting hot tub.
I have fallen in love with your place. It is so hard to leave this lovely place. Enjoyed visiting Waynesville, eating in Maggie Valley and even swimming at Harrah's. Thank you for allowing our pets. They enjoyed it too.
We had a great time on our vacation. Loved the cabin, it was almost perfect. I would give it an excellent rating except that the fireplace did not work all week and it was not able to be fixed. Very disappointed as it was cold and we were looking forward to the fireplace.
Loved the hot tub and the stream out front. Waynesville is a great little town Sweet Onion is a great restaurant.
Would visit again.
Enjoyed our stay at Elk Falls. The house was very neat and clean and plenty room for us. We enjoyed the front porch, side patio with fire pit, the stream out front was a big hit also. The kitchen was well equipped with everything that we needed. Cabin was close to Waynesville, Maggie and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Very tranquil and quiet. Kathy was very helpful and always prompt. Thanks for sharing your cabin with us.
Absolutely the best trip for us. The cabin is just like you said...a dream vacation. We woke up to 4" snow Saturday morn and drank coffee in the hot tub, while it was still snowing. We had plenty of room and it was so neat and clean. A view from anywhere in the house and the porch was so comfortable! No road noise to spoil nature.
We enjoyed News Years 2011 the snow was beautiful the wedding we went to was so beautiful we had everything we needed at the cabin. Kathy was wounderful to work with all your information was so helpful.We will tell our family and friends about your little piece of heaven you have in the mountains. Thanks so much The Pendergrasses from Bon Aqua,TN
This was the best north carolina exp.. Me and my family love this cabin and the owner was wonderful.... cleaned and just allsome......
You can visit the Elks just 15 minutes up the road the home is located on in the Great Smoky National Park. Visit the great towns of Maggie Valley and Waynesville. Quaint and lots of things to do in the area. You have excellent hiking, rafting, tubing, the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, Biltmore House, and more very close by.
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$200.00 refundable deposit is required when reserving home. Total amount is due 30 days before check-in. Welcome Package will be mailed at that time. If pet has been approved there is $75.00 nonrefundable pet deposit.
$200.00 refundable deposit is due when reservation is made and to secure dates. Final payment is due 30 days before check-in. Rates are subject to change until reservation has been confirmed.
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Bulldog alumni include current MLB players Mikey Minor (Braves) and Stephen Pryor (Mariners).
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Perhaps misunderstanding the phrase "back of the net", Rocket League [official site] developers Psyonix have announced an oceanic haul for their bumper-to-ball sports 'em up. Next month will bring a free carfootie pitch set in a BioShock-ish undersea sportworld, named AquaDome. I always thought Andrew Ryan was more into golf (or golf was in him) but here we go. Two submersible-ish cars are coming as paid DLC too.


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For those of us who like to think of ourselves as still quite adventurous, but whose days of backpacking and slumming it in tents or fleapit hotels ended at about the time The Clash split up, finding the Hidden Anywhere is fraught with difficult moments of self-awareness.
While professing to want to go off the beaten track, I have a funny feeling that what most of us actually want is a lightly beaten track with access to a well-trodden one for emergencies such as hot water, insecticide, beer and maybe some satellite telly and a good night's sleep.
In my book, there are two reasons why things are hidden: either they aren't worth seeing - which is why middle-aged nudism will never catch on - or the people who got there first want it to stay that way and make it difficult and expensive for you and me to join in the fun.
But if you try a little bit, you can find things in the most unpromising well-trodden places that not many people bother with and a few places that are very private and pretty expensive too.
Welcome to the lightly camouflaged Caribbean.
Oddly, Barbados's small size (21 miles long, 14 miles wide) and a population of 265,000 make it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. But if you want to get away from the relative hurly-burly, head up to the north-west part of the island.
You only really leave the resorts behind when you go north of Speightstown - 'unspoilt apart from the Arawak cement factory', the guidebook says, which would stretch most people's definition of unspoilt. However, the factory's ugliness has drawn a line for development in the area that means you reach the end of Barbados's tourist universe at a hotel called Little Good Harbour, a small complex of apartment-style rooms, nestling among beached boats which locals are repairing - or watching rot, it's hard to tell. The hotel is the last evidence of tourism for quite a few miles, and the peace is only disturbed by the local buses rattling past with horns for brakes every 20 minutes, taking Bajans back to their homes north of the harbour.
A brief venture into local alcohol consumption has to be high on the list of essential experiences for any faint-hearted adventurer, so having jumped on a bus intending to buy some milk, we found ourselves in Speightstown at 10am, down a sidestreet in Rays Bar being plied with rum and ginger ale (nicer than it sounds) by a docker who had just finished a double shift. We were still in town later that night and were mentally alert enough to exit a Bajan Abba karaoke night just as one customer was winding up for a crack at 'Fernando'. Instead, we walked into the Fisherman's Pub, a cheap local restaurant where our presence caused such consternation that the barman had to ask the chef if, at 8pm, he was prepared to cook for us. It was friendly and chaotic and uncommercial and left you with a pleasing glow. Or was that sitting on the wheel-arch of the bus on the way home?
North of Little Good Harbour you can walk along a deserted beach until it turns into cliffs and you have to hit the road. There are derelict houses on the top of spectacular rockfaces that no one seems in a hurry to convert for any kind of tourist pleasure. Most people will say hello as they walk past and if you say something that means very little to them they just say 'OK' in a sort of puzzled but sympathetic tone. The walks are peaceful, the views gorgeous and the people exceptional, though we were warned to be cautious if we heard gunfire because there were sometimes shooting parties up there.
Stay at: Little Good Harbour, and beg for the room above the restaurant which is 20 yards from the sea.
Visit: The Animal Flower Cave at North Point - sea anemones in a series of caves, closed sometimes in bad sea conditions; get the hotel to ring ahead.
Spend a day: Walking (slowly) along the north coast with a picnic.
Do: Say hello to everyone and anyone.
Don't: Get in the way of a bus.
St Vincent
Flying between the islands is not an experience that everyone will enjoy. Keep your eyes closed from the moment you get to the departure lounge in case you accidentally see the relaxed level of security and don't breathe in on the plane because they spray it with an insecticide that gives the cabin the smell of pee.
St Vincent was vaguely familiar to me from a childhood stamp collection but not much else, and we were guided throughout by Clint, a Canadian with Vincentian ancestry who, as well as running his tour company Hazeco, fights a lonely looking battle to keep mass tourism from overwhelming the island's very under-developed character.
St Vincent is much smaller than Barbados, literally and metaphorically - Clint had a problem with his car tax and ended up seeing the prime minister about it. And of all the islands it is the one with most claims to being genuinely hidden, with hundreds of plantations leading to almost unexplorable tropical rainforests in the south of the island and a mountainous green landscape that is geared to bananas rather than holidaying Brits.
Clint has recently discovered waterfalls that no one knew about, and some of the island's most spectacular sites can only be reached by 4x4 then on foot with the aid of the walking sticks that Clint handily keeps in his boot. He took us to a waterfall that used to serve a derelict aqueduct called Hell's Gate, and scowled at the litter left by a party of local picnickers.
The decision to use Clint as a guide and driver was vindicated within five minutes of being on the road when we saw the local bus service. Basically, this consisted of blokes with minivans who charge round the mountain roads with passengers inside, identifiable only by the nameplates they have on their windscreens.
Young Island, a small private island resort just off the mainland near the capital, Kingstown, is a handy, luxurious retreat from the sometimes overwhelming banana-plantation greenness of St Vincent. We were disturbed at first to see a giant rat-like creature outside our room until we read in the hotel handbook that it was in fact an agouti, one of the creatures protected by the nature reserve of which Young Island is part. If you have the energy to climb to the top of the island there's a tennis court on the edge of a cliff which ought to improve your shots.
Stay at: Young Island, and try to get one of the beachfront apartments with a plunge pool.
Visit: The waterfalls at the end of the track from Georgetown, the former capital that became a ghost town.
Spend a day: Climbing to the edge of the volcano, Mount Soufrière. Get Clint to sort it out.
Do: Try Mrs Clint's rum punch.
Don't: Mistake it for a soft drink.
St Lucia
St Vincent to St Lucia takes about 20 minutes by plane, which is a genuine air bus serving four stops between Barbados and Martinique. If the pee was unnerving on the first flight, the sight of the cemetery on an otherwise deserted sandy beach beside St Lucia's local landing strip is equally disconcerting. The Ladera Resort, 10 miles from the airport but a good 90-minute journey round the inconveniently placed volcanic formations, is a fortress-like mountain-top hideaway of a hotel. Several of the apartments have four-poster beds open to the elements (and indoor ones for when it rains).
St Lucia's most visible tourist draws are the Pitons, two volcanic mountains that rise like incisors from the sea, and the Ladera looks out from a great height across the sea at both of them.
The Ladera is expensive, but waking up just once and looking at the Pitons is worth it. The only downside of the outdoorness was a murderous desire to invent a laser-guided device that would terminate the tree frogs who whistle through every dark hour. Thank God we still had earplugs from the plane.
If there was a World Cup for friendliness, St Lucia would be its Brazil. On the Saturday of our trip, I ended up in a bar called Sulphur in Castries drinking beer with 15 St Lucians watching England v Greece on the television and the noise at the end matched anything at the Coborn Arms back home. St Lucians make it very easy to forget that you don't live there and very difficult not to wish you did.
The football meant I was late and a little intoxicated for a spot of jungle biking which had been scheduled that morning at the Anse Chastanet resort, built up since 1974 by an obviously brilliant and slightly bonkers architect, Nick Troubetzkoy. The best rooms are unbelievably beautiful and spacious with sensational views and interesting art, though getting to the best ones up the hillside is a somewhat Himalayan experience.
Anse Chastanet has invented the concept of jungle biking, with a specially constructed mountain-bike course on an overgrown plantation that Troubetzkoy bought a while ago to stop anyone else getting hold of it. It was like being 12 again skidding and speeding through foliage, darting through tree trunks and nearly falling into ditches.
The Anse Chastanet team are also refilling a derelict eighteenth-century reservoir for no other reason than that it was there and it could be done. Mad childlike geniuses obviously run this place, which is what makes it so exceptional.
Stay at: Either Ladera or Anse Chastanet. For the former, bring earplugs; for the latter, go to the gym for a couple of weeks beforehand.
Visit: Honeymoon Beach. Turn left at a hut selling St Lucian wine near Savannes Bay and then walk for a mile or so. Deserted and gorgeous.
Spend a day: On one of the tropical rainforest trails with waterfalls and swimming opportunities.
Do: Buy the St Lucian wine from the man at the Honeymoon Beach turning.
Don't: Drink it.
John Duncan travelled with Holiday Options (0870 013 0450).
Twin centre with seven nights at Little Good Harbour, Barbados, room only and seven nights at Young Island, St Vincent on a full-board basis costs from £2,735 per person inclusive of return scheduled flights from Gatwick, private car transfers and boat transfers.
Seven nights at Ladera costs from £1,145 per person inclusive of flights with Virgin Atlantic from Gatwick, private transfers and B&B accommodation in a one-bedroom suite with plunge pool.
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Located in LaSalle Park, this recreation center offers a full-sized gymnasium, community room with kitchen, computer lab, weight room and game room. The center offers daily programs and activities for all ages, including tutoring, computer classes, fitness classes, open recreation, sports, special events and more!
As a Real Services nutrition site, seniors at the Charles Black Recreation Center can enjoy a healthy lunch and fellowship. We are also creating new programs, so stop in and get a list of activities going on in the community room.
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This beautiful villa is in the La Morna Valley on the splendid island of Ibiza. The villa has a private swimming pool. It is in the municipality of San Carlos, also known as Sant Carles. The villa is in attractive grounds of 30,000 m2 and is surrounded by woods. You can enjoy perfect tranquillity and delightful scenery here. The villa is built in typical Ibiza style and enjoys plenty of natural light. It is equipped with every modern convenience and is attractively furnished with a keen eye for detail. Energy is provided by solar power. The terraces and balconies enjoy superb views of the Morna Valley and the sea. You can even see the island of Formentera in the distance in good weather. The villa enjoys plenty of privacy and has three bedrooms, each with their own bathroom. The swimming pool is surrounded by a pleasant seating area with a shaded part. The nearest beaches with small bays are Cala Pada, Cala Martina and Cala Nova. They are all just 15 minutes away by car. As is the popular resort of Santa Eularia with its many shops and restaurants. You can enjoy various excursions and activities such as sub-aqua diving and cycling in the surrounding area. Ibiza City, with its historic old town of D'alt Vila, is 30 minutes away by car and is well worth a visit.
The holiday home is approached along a private road which is also used by hill-side residents. There are four villas in 150 hectares.
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*The access road to the villa is an unmade road. Some caution is necessary and we recommend you hire a 4x4 vehicle.
Access the house you have to go through 2 km of unpaved road
Cleaning 2 times per 7 nights included
Linen change 2 times per 7 nights included
Classification: Ground floor: (Hall, Livingroom(TV(satellite), fireplace, DVD player, stereo, french doors), dining room, Kitchen(oven, dishwasher, fridge freezer), WC(toilet), utility room(washing machine))
On 1st floor: (Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed, TV(satellite), DVD player, whirlpool, massage shower, 2x washbasin, toilet, balcony), Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed, TV(satellite), DVD player, shower, washbasin, toilet, balcony), Bedroom with bathroom(Double bed, TV(satellite), DVD player, shower, washbasin, toilet), Landing)
outside kitchen(BBQ), shower(outside), heating(central), terrace(private), garden(private), garden furniture, 2x parking, swimming pool(private, 10 x 4 m.), 4x bicycle(s) available
These costs are charged on site. They are not included in the rental price.:
Deposit; € 800 (On arrival, you must pay the security deposit in cash)
Final Cleaning; Included
Pets; Not allowed
Bed linen; Included
Bath towels; Included
Kitchen linen; Included
Electricity; Included
Gas/Oil; Included
Wifi; Free
Tourist tax; Mandatory, € 1 /person/night
Het huis was perfect en van alle gemakken voorzien. Niets te wensen over. Fijn was het dat er van alles in de keuken voorhanden was. Meestal zijn dat spullen die je de eerste dag in de supermarkt moet kopen en aan het eind van de vakantie moet achterlaten. (specerijen, olie, vuilniszakken, wasmiddel, vaatwasser blokjes etc) Het eiland Ibiza is er echt voor iedereen. Jong en oud, van natuurvorser tot party tiger.
Huur wel een auto die wat hoog op de wielen staat. De weg naar het huis is behoorlijk onverhard.
Het huis is prachtig gelegen.
Voor de weg er naar toe is een 4x4 noodzakelijk.
Het uitzicht is fenomenaal.
Heeft een prachtige plek om buiten te eten.
Centre 8.0 km., Forest 100 m., General supplies 8.0 km., Public transport 8.0 km., Tourist information office 8.0 km.
*Plus compulsory or optional charges based on actual occupancy or consumption. The payment has to be made in the currency offered by the property manager, before use of conversion tool. Payments in other currencies have to be negotiated beforehand with the property manager. The currency conversion tool is provided for your convenience only and is non-binding.


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The brand that 'Seinfeld' made famous has tapped a retail vet as CEO.
Grapevine Mills, the largest outlet and value retail shopping destination in North Texas, welcomed Torrid to its retail line-up of more than 180 stores, and will soon enhance its selection when Steve Madden opens in October.
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Check my wife pic!
Dear fellow boarder, have been a while....to put the story short.....I'm going to be a father :)
My wife and I have entered into a contest where we have to write a short story and post a picture.
You can view our entry and vote for us here:
Magical Moment
Please vote for us once per day until May 8, ask your friend to vote for us too.
Thank you for your consideration.
Between the title and teh content...I hope your ready for some abuse.
You realize this is a snowboarding forum? Its not babyfactory.com, or howcuteisyourpreggerwife.com, I mean wtf man!?
I'm not even gonna go with all the inappropriate comments in my head...
Links to girls who arent strapped to snowboards, naked, or both are just completely fail.
Just so many terrible things I have to say, what can I say I'm a horrible person.
I'll admit I was really curious what I was gonna see when I clicked that link.
Good luck! (maybe theres a troll up on the bank of the interwebz bragging to his friends how good he just hooked me)
IRL Congratulations. :D
She is Yang li?
Take a photo of her jumping a 50 footer carrying that baby, then ill vote
Yes she is Yang Li.
50 footer is tuff....
Please vote for us today.
I'm aware this is a boarding forum and the baby is surfing inside the belly, you just need ultrasound to see it ;) is a natural born boarder.
We are down to third place today, not looking too good, need home more help with voting and spreading the word.
Remember to vote once every 24 hours please.
this made me laugh, that is all
You know if you had put it in her ass and not the queef hole you wouldn't have one of those 18 year STD's.
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An unwanted child born into a deeply troubled post-war Germany, Emma's despondent early years were afflicted by abuse, rape, and the struggle for survival.
Growing from a mistreated child to a headstrong young woman, Emma's traumas are interspersed with the dizzying heights of excitement and adventure. She becomes Germany's youngest runway model, finds herself trapped in an Islamic marriage and masterminds a daring escape. She travels the world as a flight attendant, enters into the corporate sector, and finally embarks on another career in the public arena.
A practical approach and unfaltering determination helped Emma overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and adversities. And yet she remained tormented by an inner restlessness, driven by a mysterious force and mind flashes of a clairvoyant nature. When the worst crisis of her life threatened to overwhelm her, Emma experienced a spiritual awakening that revealed extraordinary abilities and a future with an amazing purpose.
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'Recess' is a productivity app that provides customized notifications and monthly analytics reports.
'Recess' is a productivity app developed during the 'Hacking Energy Culture hackathon' held by GOOD earlier this month. It was the winning solution for generating new ways to interface with energy consumption, waste, and preservation.
Developed by Nicholas DePaul, Katrinna Whiting, Kevin Zweerink, and Kacie Mills from Something Dangerous, the app is designed to help users waste less time on their computers. It tracks what they're doing on the computer and offers customized notifications and monthly analytics reports showing how much it's costing them to waste time on the computer.
The environmentally-conscious app aims to help users manage their computer time efficiently and sustainably. Recess allows users to adjust the "sass meter" for their notifications, which range from basic, gentle reminders to sassy and cheeky ones. Users can also write their own notifications or let their friends and family write some for each other.
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Crusaders rally for win over Newton in semis
NEWTON Kapaun senior Sydney Kuhn hit her only shot from the field in the first half Friday night in the semifinals of the Newton tournament. She also made two free throws.
No surprise, at halftime, Kapaun trailed Newton.
It was 20-15 (at half), and we had to have the lead by the end of the third quarter, thats what I told them, Kapaun coach Marvin Estes said of his halftime speech. And the way we were going to do it was we were going to get the ball into Syd.
The Crusaders did just that, and Kuhn finished with nine second-half points as Kapaun beat Newton 37-26. Kapaun (12-0) will play Miege (10-2) in Saturdays championship game at 4:30 p.m.
We got the ball into Syd and it was easy points, said junior guard Sam Bachrodt, who had a game-high 14 points. We started building and building our lead.
(Getting the ball to Kuhn) was crucial. We werent getting her involved in the first half at all. Thats what broke them. They couldnt guard her. Shes too good for them.
Kuhn, the tallest player on the floor at 6-foot-1, also added five rebounds and four blocks.
Newton doesnt have the height to play with Kuhn, but the Railers controlled the first half.
We were on defense for about four minutes and (then) on offense for about 30 seconds, Bachrodt said.
Newtons Hannah Carlgren was 3 of 3 from three-point range, and it was Logan Porter who scored inside to put the Railers up 20-10 with 2:05 to go in the first half.
Despite shooting 8 of 14 in the first half, including 4 of 7 from three-point range, Newtons offense stumbled. The Railers scored six second-half points, including only one in the fourth quarter.
There was a pretty long stretch in the fourth quarter where we just couldnt get anything to go down, Newton coach Randy Jordan said. And with a team that good, you gotta put the ball in the hole.
Miege 53, Carroll 45 Carroll was prepared for Mieges quickness, and for three quarters, Carroll answered that speed with their own.
It was in the final period, which began with the score tied, when Miege successfully sped up Carroll beyond what the Eagles could handle.
Five turnovers later and no Carroll field goals in the period, Miege had the game in hand as it advanced to Saturdays championship game.
"I told them that we lost because of turnovers," said Carroll coach Taylor Steven, whose team committed 17. "At times we get sped up and turn the ball over. If we dont have control and patience and getting into triple-threat every time and looking up the court, we tend to turn the ball over a little bit."
Miege went on runs of 11-0 and 15-6 in the first half as it built a 35-26 lead with 1:38 to go in the first half.
Carroll answered in the third as it got six points from forward Jordyn Miller to tie the score at 43-all. Miller finished with eight points, while Shelby Lopez led the Eagles with 16.
The Eagles offense was efficient through those periods, shooting 19 of 33 from the field and 4 of 6 from three-point range.
"They were a step quicker than us. We were a step slow all night long," Miege coach Terry English said. "We have a very quick team. Wed been very good on the press this year. We just couldnt get ourselves in the right spots. "
In the final period, though, Carroll committed an early turnover and missed all seven field goal attempts. And after Mieges Tristen McFeders converted a three-point play with 5:51 to go, Mieges offense quickly became patient.
McFeders finished with 18.
Carroll failed to establish the same sort of rhythm it had in the first 24 minutes of the game, and the Eagles stalled out, compounding the problem with turnovers. Carroll had possession for the final 50 seconds of the game and got off one shot, and it wasnt a three.
They made a couple shots, got their momentum up, Steven said of Miege. I dont think we fell off, but we couldnt get something (going).
Andover Central 68, Dodge City 42 Andover Central shot poorly in the first round of the Newton tournament, and with that memory firmly imprinted, the Jaguars opened their losers bracket game by hitting seven straight shots.
Last night we werent hitting anything, and tonight, Skyler (Snodgrass) was just making all of them, and Brooke (Pedersen), too. It was fun, said Andover Central guard Masen Stamp, who had 18 points and five steals.
Andover Central forced 16 first-half turnovers, converting them to 15 points as the Jaguars rolled into the fifth-place game.
I think thats what really fired us up, Snodgrass said, referring to Andover Centrals defensive effort.
The Jaguars shot 17 of 29 from the field in the first half as it built a 28-point lead. By the end of the third, they led by 45.
Snodgrass led all scorers with 21 points, as she hit 3 of 3 three-pointers and 9 of 12 shots. Pedersen and Katie Kretchmar added 10 points apiece, while Becca Schulte had nine rebounds, six points.
Kapaun 37, Newton 26
Kapaun: Bachrodt 14, Hagan 3, Kuhn 13, Jacobs 7.
Newton: Stahly 3, Boston 4, Carlgren 12, Porter 4, Anderson 3.
Miege 53, Carroll 45
Carroll: Lopez 16, Youngers 4, Miller 8, Hogan 8, Maul 5, Doerneman 4.
Miege: Homoly 6, Bentley 11, Villegas 4, Piggie 7, McFeders 18, Wolf 7.
Andover Central 68, Dodge City 42
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Andover Central: Snodgrass 21, Pedersen 10, Schulte 6, Kretchmar 10, Stamp 18, Wesley 3.
Dodge City: Sain 3, Harshberger 8, Roenfeldt 8, Durler 2, Bradshaw 4, Shelor 3, Nichols 9, Esquibel 5.
Video includes the Newton student section
Kapaun senior Sydney Kuhn
Kapaun junior Sam Bachrodt
Kapaun coach Marvin Estes
Newton coach Randy Jordan
Andover Central guard Masen Stamp
Andover Central guard Skyler Snodgrass
Carroll coach Taylor Steven
Miege coach Terry English


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A Brief History of City Point in New Haven, ConnecticutPosted: April 12, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
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(City Point was one of New Haven's first planned suburban developments, bounded by Greenwich Ave., Hallock Ave. & South Water Street. It was envisioned c. 1840 by journalist Gerard Hallock, who formerly owned the land. City Point was officially established in May of 1868 by his heirs on the former [now largely land-locked] peninsula or "point" once known as "Oyster Point". This 1868 residential housing development incorporated the earlier oystering community established in 1847 when Gerard Hallock sold 2 acres of his land along the Point's southern shore [which later became South Water St.] and the first block of Howard Ave. to William C. Barnes: the Point's first oysterman. CITY POINT: It's NOT "The Hill".)
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Oyster Point & The Oyster Point Quarter
City Point was originally part of New Haven's undeveloped "suburbs" on the western edge of town known as the Oyster Point Quarter or simply Oyster Point. By 1824 this was considered to be bounded on the North by what is now Columbus Ave. In 1848 a small stream in the Oyster Point Quarter was drained to create the New York & New Haven railroad cut now used by Amtrak and Metro North, and this eventually came to be regarded by some residents to be the northern boundary of Oyster Point. (Nevertheless some maps as late as 1870 still show Oyster Point extending to Columbus Ave. or to the avenue's neighboring 1870-71 Derby Rail Road cut.) The Point was bordered on the East by New Haven Harbor (which originally extended along present-day Hallock Ave. and, at Lamberton and Cedar Streets, the shoreline veered somewhat eastward along the former West Water St., extending to somewhat North of present-day Union Ave.). Oyster Point was bounded on the West by the West River salt marsh (partly fed by a small stream originating near Kimberly Avenue, approximately behind what is now number 400 Greenwich Ave., between First and Second St.). Most of this area formed a "point" or narrow peninsula jutting out into the harbor.
from the 1846 coast survey, New Haven Harbor
Although Oyster Point and Oyster Point Quarter often were used interchangeably, most 19th century maps use the name Oyster Point to describe the narrow peninsula bounded by the West River salt marsh and the harbor., i.e. the area today bounded by Greenwich Ave., Hallock Ave. and South Water Street. The name Oyster Point Quarter, on the other hand, usually was used to describe all of the area bordering the harbor's original western shoreline, i.e. the area from Columbus Avenue southward.
Gerard Hallock
In the 1830s Gerard Hallock (1800-1866), a New York newspaper editor, purchased much of this land as his rural estate and in 1836 Sidney Mason stone (1803-1882) built Hallock's summer residence overlooking the harbor on what is now the rail yard side of Cedar St., across from present-day Cassius St. This impressive "Elizabethan Gothic" mansion, modeled after Kenilworth Castle in England, sat upon a semicircular outcropping supported by a massive 2,000 foot-long sandstone wall, making an impressive sight from the harbor. It soon became a navigational reference point for ships entering the harbor. Although Hallock spent much of his time in a small apartment adjacent to his newspaper's press room in New York, his 40 acre New Haven property soon came to be known as "Hallock's Quarter" and the mansion "Hallock's Castle".
illustration from The Hallock-Holyoke Pedigree…a Revision of the Hallock Ancestry of 1866, Amherst: 1906
It was Hallock's vision that his land South of Spring Street would be developed into a neighborhood of fashionable country estates. Thus, undoubtedly reflecting Hallock's influence, in the first-ever city directory "Patten's New Haven Directory, for the Year 1840" is found a map of New Haven with a "contemplated" blueprint of Oyster Point, filled with a grid of unnamed, non-existent streets, and the name "City Point" across the area. This map of non-existent streets–on which the traditional name "Oyster Point" is completely absent– continued to be used in city directories through the 1840s.
For many years Yalies and townies would pass Hallock's mansion on the way to The Cedars, which for over seventy-five years was a popular beach located approximately between the present-day intersections of Lamberton & Cedar Streets and Hallock Ave. and Second Street. Here men would swim au naturel and during the 1880s & '90s one could rent boats and buy refreshments at the Vue de L'eau ["View of the Water"] Pavilion operated by carpenter, builder and carriage maker Godfrey Grenier at 241 Hallock Ave. near First St.
Gerard Hallock was a fervent abolitionist and used his wealth to purchase the freedom of c. 100 southern slaves. However he decried the tactics of the war wing of the Republican Party. Those who disagreed with him falsely labelled him a "Southern sympathizer" or "pro-slavery". After the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the postmaster general suspended the mail privileges of Hallock's Journal of Commerce on the grounds of "disloyalty". Thus, to preserve the newspaper, Hallock resigned as editor and took up permanent residence in New Haven. During the Civil War the all-Irish Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers as well as the Connecticut Fifteenth Volunteers trained on land which Hallock volunteered for the purpose, approximately where Bay View Park now stands. He died in his New Haven "castle" in 1866.
The Oyster Industry
In 1847 oyster grower William S. Barnes established his business at the southern tip of Oyster Point on land purchased from Gerard Hallock. By 1850 he was joined by Richard W. Law, then Alexander Foote by 1854, with Eber Kelsey & Frederick Lane setting up shop by 1855. Initially shucking and packing of oysters took place in the high-cellared, beach-front homes of the oyster growers. The industry grew rapidly, so that by 1860 the original beach had been extended to accommodate a new privately-owned street–South Water Street–with the oyster-related activities now taking place in oyster barns. These were built upon additional infill on the opposite side of South Water Street. Industry-related buildings also sprang up on Sea St. Due to the industry's rapid growth, the city drew up plans in 1872 to take over and widen South Water St., although this plan was not carried out until 1886.
The former 110 South Water Street, demolished in the 20th century. R.W.Law founded in 1847
Early in the oyster industry's history dugout canoes were used when tonging for oysters. Soon these were replaced by oyster boats called sharpies, a unique New Haven vessel. One-mast sharpies were used for tonging, two-mast versions for dredging. The two-mast sharpies built at Oyster Point by Riley Smith were distinguished from the Fair Haven versions built across the harbor by their brass bow piece.
The "Great Set" [i.e. oyster spawning] of 1899 produced record oyster harvests in New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound through 1903. Thereafter the oyster industry slowly declined due to starfish, pollution, poor oyster bed management, the hurricane of 1938, and loss of workers due to World War II. Changes in currents and salinity caused by construction of harbor breakwaters in 1893 and filling of the West River salt marsh in 1929 (to create Kimberly Field) also contributed to the decline. The Nor'easter of Thanksgiving weekend in 1950 was the final blow for many oyster companies. City Point's last oyster company, Sea Coast, closed in 1962, and in 1965 the Federal government declared Connecticut's shell fisheries a disaster.
City Point Mission
The history of one of City Point's landmarks, the former Howard Avenue Methodist Church building, now home of New Light Holy Church, began in 1871 as Sunday school lessons conducted by Mrs. Gilbert Eaton in her home on South Water St. The Eaton's initially had relocated from Long Island to Second Street in City Point, but soon moved to South Water Street. According to local legend this was at No. 47-49 South Water St., and some residents continued to call this house the former "sailors' mission" well into the 20th century. City directories confirm that one of the several City Point Eaton families lived at 47-49 S. Water in the 1860s-70s. Also, according to local legend and parish archives, the first services were held in a newly-constructed oyster shop directly across the street, owned by the Thomas Oyster Co. (the building now relocated to Mystic Seaport museum). By 1872 the group called itself "The Oyster Point Mission", and shortly thereafter "The City Point Mission".
In the City Directory of 1875 the City Point [Methodist Episcopal] Mission on S. Water St. is listed for the first time. This address likely was the parsonage, because a church building or meeting house was constructed for the congregation by David Shelton in 1875 on a 50′ by 300′ lot which he had owned since 1872, and which was bounded by Hallock Ave., Sixth St. and Howard Ave. (The corner stone of the present edifice on Howard Ave. at Fourth St. gives this as the year of the building's construction.)
On Oct. 19, 1880 David Shelton, for the sum of $1000, sold to the congregation "The Church or meeting House"–but not the land upon which it sat–"with the following Furniture and fixtures therein Viz: One Black Walnut Pulpit, One sofa, Fourteen Chairs, Fifty-nine settees or seats, Ten Double Lamps and about two hundred yards of Carpet on the Floor." On July 15, 1881 he then sold the congregation the lot at the corner of Fourth St. & Howard Ave. for $600. The 1881 City Directory gives both S. Water St. and Howard Ave. at Fourth St. as the Mission's addresses. This was the year of the building's legendary two to three week move up Howard Ave., during which services purportedly were held while the building temporarily sat in the middle of the avenue. In the 1882 City Directory the name then only appears in the church index as the Howard Avenue Methodist Church at Howard Ave. & Fourth St. (although the street index continues to call it City Point Mission at Howard & Fourth through 1887).
Howard Ave. Methodist/City Point Mission as it appeared between 1882 and 1890, shortly after the building's relocation to Fourth & Howard
This new location would have made the church more convenient for all Oyster Point residents, and allowed for the construction of a parsonage in 1882 directly behind the church at No. 75 Fourth St. In 1890 the front section and belfry were added. This entailed moving the building yet again–albeit this time only ten feet back. In 1897 the bell was installed. Due to the many oyster industry employees who once belonged to the parish, it garnered the nickname "The Eel Pot".
From the 1930s, until the parish merged with Grace Methodist farther up Howard Ave. in 1954 (thereby becoming Wesley Methodist), the church was well-known for its Sunday oyster suppers held during December. The oysters were donated each year by the Wedmore Oyster Co.
In 1959 the church building was sold to United Pentecostal Church, then Star of Jacob Church. It has been the home of New Light Holy Church since 1973.
A New Suburban Housing Development
One year after Hallock's death in 1866, his heirs sold his land between the Northern side of Lamberton St. and Spring St. to the New Haven & New York Rail Road. The rail road moved his mansion across the street to where nos. 4-16 Cedar St. now stand and immediately began filling in part of the harbor to build much of the present-day rail yard. Stones from his semicircular harbor front wall were used to build part of the present rail yard retaining wall. Hallock's land from the Southern side of Lamberton St. to Sea St. was surveyed, mapped and divided into building lots by his heirs. This new housing development was bounded by new streets–Hallock Ave. and Greenwich Ave.–and new cross streets were included: First through Sixth Streets. (His heirs, being New Yorkers, naturally adopted the numbered system for naming cross streets). Finally, the grid of streets envisioned on the map of 1840 was to become a reality.
from an 1868 wall map of New Haven
Thus, many residents began to regard the Northern boundary of this new residential neighborhood, rather than the rail road cut, to be the Northern boundary of Oyster Point–soon to be renamed City Point–i.e. the Southern [even-numbered] side of Lamberton St. at Hallock Ave. [nos. 20-32 Lamberton], continuing over to just before the intersection of Lamberton and Kimberly Ave., and angling down the rear yards of Kimberly to Greenwich Ave. at First St. (This approximately is the Northern boundary of City Point as defined by the New Haven Preservation Trust in its 1982 publication New Haven Historic Resources Inventory.)
Thanks to the 1860 introduction of the horse-drawn streetcar (electrified in the 1890s) Kimberly Square soon developed into a commercial hub. This provided convenient shopping for nearby residents of this newly laid out Oyster Point residential neighborhood. Thus the ubiquitous "corner store", once an essential part of urban neighborhoods, was and remains something of a rarity in City Point. A few 19th century exceptions were no. 323-25 Howard Ave. (built in 1895 as a grocery store and meat market, now Tracey Oil), 86 Second St. (built in 1871 as a grocery store, now an apartment), and 228-30 Greenwich Ave. (now a brick 2-family house). Early 20th century additions included 382 Greenwich Ave. (now an apartment, but the original 1925 location of Eddy's), 151 Howard Ave. (opened in 1925 as George Stavrides' confectionary [candy store], now City Point Bubbles Laundromat), 99 S. Water St. (Starbranch grocery, later Libson's), 83 S. Water St./19 Howard Ave. (Charlie Eaton's grocery), 68-74 Second St. (now an apartment building, but for many decades the Rustic Garden Restaurant, known for it's dining booths concealed by beaded curtains, allowing patrons to dine in semi-privacy), and 353 Greenwich Ave. (The New York Smoked Fish Co., destroyed by fire in 1975 and the remains eventually replaced by a 19th c. house relocated from Kimberly Ave.).
The post civil War economic decline and the fact that the streetcar did not continue down Howard Ave. past Kimberly Ave. slowed development of the neighborhood. The 1888 Atlas of the City of New Haven shows very few homes between Second and Sixth Sts. The return of prosperity in the 1890s and the extension of the now-electrified streetcar to the end of Howard Ave. (the Q car, later the B car) resulted in a building boom, so that during this time most of the remaining building lots in the neighborhood were built upon. By the 1880s the gas main had been extended into City Point, and for many years the Ahern boys of Second St. had the job of lighting the street lamps at dusk and extinguishing them at dawn.
Bay View Park
c. 1909 postcard
In 1890 the city acquired land for the development of a park to be built on the edge of the harbor, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The new park was championed by George Dudley Seymour (known as "Mr. New Haven"), a proponent of the City Beautiful movement, and designed by landscape architect Donald Grant Mitchell. Mitchell's 1891 plan dubbed the park Oyster Point Reservation, but by 1892 the name had been changed to Bay View Park. By 1894 it included a central duck pond (actually a tidal basin) with two picturesque rustic bridges leading to a small island, and a tree-lined harbor drive (built upon soil excavated to create the tidal basin). Although the duck pond consisted of a single body of water, residents referred to the halves bisected by the island and bridges as the North Pond and South Pond. Later a monument to the Civil War's Ninth Regiment was added as well as a playground, ball field and comfort station. Ice skating was introduced in 1906 by closing the tidal basin flood gates for the winter, as called for in Mitchell's 1891 plan. The 1937 stone seawall, which replaced the 1890s wooden bulkhead, still can be seen at the end of the present basketball court along Fifth St., and a remnant of the harbor drive ["Park Road"] remains between the Boulevard sewage pumping station and the newer part of the Sound School campus. Unfortunately, in 1902 a concrete company was built between Howard and Greenwich Aves., directly across from Bay View Park–the first of several assaults on Mitchell's landscaped masterpiece–and the great hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938 destroyed most of the park's original trees. Despite the park's official name "Bay View" [often misspelled "Bayview"], residents long referred to it as "City Point Park".
The City Point School & A New Name for the Point
In the 1858 City Directory is found the first listing for the Oyster Point School on Howard Ave.: a one-room schoolhouse constructed to accommodate 34 pupils, on a lot purchased by the New Haven City School District from Gerard Hallock on Feb. 6, 1858. In the 1866 Directory it is then listed as the City Point School "at the foot of Howard Avenue" and, in the 1870-71 edition, at 20 Howard Ave. [the property which today is numbered 44 Howard]. This seems to be the first municipal use of the name City Point as an alternate to Oyster Point. The 1877 City Directory lists this as one of the Washington District schools, along with the new Greenwich Ave. School which was built in 1877 at the corner of Greenwich & First St., where Galvin Park is now located. The 1877 Annual Report of the Board of Education states that the "City Point and Washington Branch Schools continued through the Fall and Winter Terms, and then became part of Greenwich Av. School, which was opened May 7th, 1877."
It perhaps is no coincidence that this first official use of the name City Point in 1866 took place the same year that Gerard Hallock died. The November 1867 map of building lots owned by Hallock's heirs was filed with the Town Clerk on Jan. 24, 1868, and approved by the Court of Common Council [predecessor of the Board of Aldermen] on May 4 of that same year. It is this author's theory that the name City Point was coined by Hallock at least as far back as 1840. The name subsequently was promoted by his heirs as a marketing device to tout their building lots as a new fashionable suburban development and to dissociate it from the aesthetically unappealing oyster industry. Changing the original proposed name of City Point's exquisitely landscaped 1890s park from Oyster Point Reserve to Bay View Park undoubtedly was part of this attempt to upscale the neighborhood's image.
The 1870-71 New Haven Directory lists Second Street as being in City Point, and Greenwich Ave. as extending fromKimberly Ave. to City Point [i.e. to Sea St.]. South Water St. is described as being in Oyster Point, while the City Point School is described as being at No. 20 Howard Ave. in City Point. Thus, by 1870 the names Oyster Point and City Point were being used interchangeably. And, as we already have noted, the neighborhood's 1875 church chose the name City Point Mission.
By the 1890s the name City Point began to replace Oyster Point as the preferred name of the neighborhood. The 1893 Town and City Atlas of the State of Connecticut contains one of the first accurate, rather than "projected", New Haven maps to use the name City Point in place of Oyster Point. The map found in the front of the New Haven Directory of that same year has the name "Oyster Point" just off the shore of South Water Street, and the name "City Point" next to Bay View Park, where the sewer pipe emptying into the harbor lay. It was not until 1926 that the New Haven Directory map used the name City Point in place of Oyster Point, while the U.S. Board of Geographical Names did not officially recognize the "new" name City Point until 1939!
By the turn of the 20th century the old name Oyster Point came to be regarded as a derogatory reference to the area. Deteriorating docks of the declining oyster industry along South Water St., the putrid untreated sewage pouring into the harbor from a pipe now covered by the new City Point pier at Sea & South Water Streets, and the foul smell of the city dump that once stood near the corner of Sea St. and Greenwich Ave. dominated the scene. During the Great Depression an impromptu shanty town for the homeless appeared at the dump.
From Country Village to Urban Neighborhood
Up until World War I, City Point was like a little country village unto itself. A dramatic increase in automobile ownership in the 1920s caused City Point to lose its quiet insular quality. Nevertheless, a remarkable number of barns and carriage houses survive in City Point, reminders of its pre-automotive era, e.g. behind nos. 393 & 133 Greenwich Ave., 196 Hallock Ave., 154 Howard Ave. (which once housed the neighborhood's first Stanley Steamer automobile) & 297 Howard (an unusual brick version whose original owner was a brick mason), 57 S. Water St., and nos. 40 & 74 Sea Street (the latter, recently restored from near-collapse, perhaps being the neighborhood's most flamboyant). Beside 98 South Water St. stands the neighborhood's sole surviving oyster barn, where oysters were processed for shipping.
In 1919 this quiet suburban neighborhood's tranquility was further broken with the construction of the Seamless Rubber Co. factory [now One Long Wharf] on Hallock Ave. which entailed additional filling of the Harbor, requiring the City Point Yacht Club to move from its dock between Second & Third Streets, to a dock almost directly across from Third Street at 169 Hallock Ave.
By 1888 plans were made to extend the Boulevard to Sea Street and to drain the West River salt marsh behind Greenwich Ave., where Kimberly Field (formerly called St. Peter's Oval or simply The Oval) now stands. Thus the intersection of Sea St. & Greenwich Ave. would no longer be covered by high tide twice a day. The 1911 New Haven Atlas shows this as having been completed, and the marsh land as being privately owned by Clark, Goodrich, Logan, Steven, and St. Peter Church. However, by this time only the area behind Greenwich Ave. from Second to Third Streets actually had been drained. This allowed for the extension of Second St. to Kimberly Ave. in 1906 and the construction of the Kimberly Ave. School that same year, the construction of St. Peter School in 1911, and the construction of a new street–St. Peter Ave.–in 1918. Residents growing up in City Point in the 1920s to the 1970s recall that the Boulevard stopped North of the rail road tracks (even though the city directory beginning in 1895 describes the Boulevard as extending from Whalley Ave. to Sea St.). To travel from Kimberly Ave. to the Boulevard one had to walk across the Grant Street Bridge: an elevated foot bridge built in 1907 that began at the end of Grant St. and crossed over the rail road cut to Morris Street. Between Kimberly and Sea St. there was only a large sewer pipe which residents used as a foot bridge to cross the West River salt marsh. The appended map of sewer lines in the back of the 1911 New Haven Atlas shows this pipe crossing the salt marsh, with the water extending northward between Kimberly & Greenwich just past Third St. The map in the 1920 city directory shows a planned road here, but the area still under water.
In 1929 the mouth of the West River was dredged (eliminating the island that required two bridges to cross from Kimberly Ave. into West Haven), and the dredged material was used to fill the remainder of the West River salt marsh behind Greenwich Ave. from Third St. to Sea St., and to create a dirt road between Sea St. and Kimberly Ave. Although officially considered a continuation of the Boulevard (even though a bridge extending the Boulevard over the rail road tracks was not built until 1978), residents referred to this dirt road between Kimberly Ave. & Sea St. as Dump Road due to the dump that immediately developed along the shore here. By the mid 1930s the area between Kimberly Ave. and Greenwich Ave. finally had drained sufficiently to create the athletic field that sits there today. More significantly, with the water on the Western side of City Point now gone, City Point was no longer a "point"! Unfortunately, zoning regulations and wetlands conservation laws, which would have prevented such environmental disasters, did not yet exist. Perhaps to appease residents over the loss of the salt marsh, the city used fire hoses to flood the field every Winter for many years so that it could be used for ice skating.
This drainage of the salt marsh (called The Mud Flats by residents) also allowed for the 1931 construction of the second Saint Peter Church on Kimberly Ave. (which replaced the original 1903 church, now Brams Hall of the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School), primarily to serve the area's rapidly growing Irish Catholic population. In 1901 the new parish's Northern boundary was declared to be the rail road cut, with many of its members living not only within the traditional Hallock Ave.-Greenwich Ave. -South Water Street borders of City Point, but also within the Kimberly Ave. area. With City Point's Western border now less distinct, some residents of Kimberly Ave., Grant St., Plymouth St. and Cassius St. began to think of themselves as being City Point residents, particularly during the 1920s through the '60s–even though these streets never were part of the geographic "point" from which City Point had derived its name, nor were these streets part of the Hallock family's 1868 housing development known as City Point. (Nevertheless this area–as well as Spireworth Village aka Trowbridge Square– was part of what had been referred to as the Oyster Point Quarter during much of the 19th century).Thus it was during this era that City Point was defined by some residents as being "South of the rail road tracks". One even can trace the blurring of City Point's boundaries back to the late 1870s when Greenwich Ave. was extended an extra block beyond the Point and Hallock property, from Kimberly Ave. to Lamberton St., thereby creating one side of Kimberly Square (which, despite its name, is a triangle–not a square!).
At about this same time, the construction of the present rail road station on Union Ave. caused many residents gradually to redefine the Hill neighborhood. The Hill (once known as Sodom Hill and later Mount Pleasant) originally had derived its name from the upward slope along Congress Ave., beginning at the now-extinct West Creek [where Route 34/The Oak Street Connector now is located], and was separated from the Oyster Point Quarter by a branch of West Creek that ran just North of, and parallel to Columbus Ave. [This later would be drained to create the Derby Rail Road cut.] The Hill's other original boundaries included West St./Winthrop Ave. (or later, the West River) on the west, Oak St./Morocco St. [now Legion Ave.] on the north, and Hill St. [now Church St. South] on the east. With the completion of the present rail road station in 1919, many residents began to define the Hill as comprising all of the area radiating from the upward slope of Union Ave., and therefore incorporating the City Point neighborhood. For many residents this initiated the gradual loss of City Point's distinct neighborhood identity.
During the Great Depression and the rationing of World War II many homeowners simply did not have the money to maintain their properties. As a result many of the lovely old homes in City Point and nearby neighborhoods began to deteriorate. Lack of tax revenues during this time did not allow the city to provide basic services such as street repairs. Urban decay had set in. After World War II the federal government gave returning veterans low interest mortgages with very low down payments to purchase housing. However, the mortgages only could be used to purchase a new, not pre-existing, home. Simultaneously the government began a massive highway construction program, while spending virtually nothing on rail roads and other mass-transit systems. New Haven's own deteriorated trolley system shut down in 1948. The decline of the rail road soon followed, and by the 1970s New Haven's train station was in total disrepair. Ill conceived urban renewal programs during the 1950s and '60s razed entire neighborhoods, with no provisions having been made for the displaced residents and businesses. At this same time unscrupulous real estate agents engaged in the now-illegal practice of "block busting": white home-owners were contacted and told that "coloreds" were moving into the neighborhood, so they had better sell lest their property become worthless.
All of these factors contributed to an explosion of suburban sprawl, with devastating ecological impact. Vast swaths of highway were cut through historic neighborhoods, sucking the economic life-blood out of cities, exacerbating racial and economic divisions in our society, and making our nation–particularly its automobile-oriented suburbs–utterly dependent on foreign oil. With the decimation of New Haven's neighborhoods, the city was left with Real Property consisting of over 45% tax-exempt properties (mostly institutions such as universities and hospitals that serve predominantly non-residents) and a housing stock that is only c. 30% owner-occupied, thus providing most residents with little incentive to care for neighborhoods which they do not "own".
The 1949 harbor dredging and back-filling, and the 1950s construction of the Connecticut Turnpike/Interstate 95 eliminated the portion of the harbor facing Hallock Avenue: the final step in the obliteration of the geographical point or narrow peninsula which once defined City Point. Bay View Park was split in two and its picturesque duck pond destroyed. Even the City Point Yacht Club, once located on a dock at Hallock Ave. and Third St., was forced to relocate over by the Kimberly Ave. Bridge–and thus was no longer in City Point! In the 1980s condominiums (which due to their gated, insular design, hardly can be considered part of the neighborhood) were built on a former neighborhood beach, which for a time had been the site of the City Point Athletic Club ["ACs"] baseball field. Thus City Point's once expansive public beaches were reduced to a tiny strip at the end of Howard Ave.: a fragment of Lane's Shore (named after one of the old oyster companies).
As older residents died or moved away, the collective memories of what defined the City Point neighborhood slowly disappeared, and for many residents the neighborhood soon lost its identity. By the early 1970s I-95 had become a demarcation of de facto racial segregation in City Point: the area south of the highway was virtually all (non-Hispanic) white, while the portion of City Point north of the highway had become predominantly African-American/black and Hispanic/Latino. This contributed to a growing illusion that City Point only consisted of the area south of the highway, while everything north of the highway was "The Hill". Thus many City Point residents today–particularly many living in that two-thirds of City Point north of I-95–think they simply live in "The Hill" or "Hill South". (The latter term is actually a large municipal administrative district originating from the 1980s, when the four Police Dept. quadrants were replaced with smaller "districts"–including "Hill North" and "Hill South". In recent years some have confused these districts with "neighborhoods": recently the city placed banners throughtout the Hill North police district that proclaim "Hill North Neighborhood is my home"!–even though these districts do not conform to traditional neighborhoods–and indeed are too vast in area to meet any standard definition of the word "neighborhood".) In 2001 the one-third of City Point south of I-95 (The Connecticut Turnpike) was made a "local historic district". Purportedly this was to preserve that area's buildings from further modern alterations. However, because New Haven has no effective means to enforce historic district regulations, the only actual impact of the district's creation has been to reinforce the myth that City Point consists only of the area south of the highway. Adding to the neighborhood's loss of identity is the fact that the City Plan Dept. and Police Dept. maps show "The Hill" as encompassing everything from Legion Ave. down to South Water Street: City Point does not officially exist!
New Urbanism
By the late 20th century a national New Urbanism movement took root which promotes the rebirth of city neighborhoods that are pedestrian, mass-transit and shopping-friendly and not automobile-dependent. This gradually has had an impact in City Point. In the 1980s the abandoned, boarded-up houses in the neighborhood were too numerous to count. Today such houses are a rarity in City Point (and usually the temporary result of an unfortunate fire or foreclosure). Likewise, nearby Kimberly Square, which traditionally served as City Point's neighboring commercial hub, has undergone a renaissance of its own, even boasting a large, modern supermarket. [In 1978 the long-contemplated bridge carrying the Boulevard over the rail road tracks finally was constructed., and at this time city planners coined the name Kimberly Square Neighborhood, in an effort to revitalize the area. In the early 21st century, St. Peter's was demolished to make way for construction of the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School and Second St. was returned to its original 1868 configuration. Thus today residents of Kimberly Ave., Grant St., Plymouth St. and Cassius St. generally consider themselves part of the Kimberly Square Neighborhood or The Hill, rather than City Point, even though those four streets are South of the rail road cut.] There also has been a greater effort in recent years to fill empty lots in the City Point neighborhood with houses that blend better with the surrounding historic buildings. For example, nos. 149 to 165 Hallock Ave. are obviously modern tract homes, but the steep roof pitch with gables facing the street, bright colors, front porches and architectural detailing (typical 19th century practices) make these houses welcome recent additions to the neighborhood.
Additionally in recent years the portion of City Point that lies south of the highway has become more racially and ethnically integrated. For example, in the 2010 assessment database, 6 of the 13 one-to-three family homes on the section of Greenwich Ave. south of the highway list resident homeowners with Spanish surnames: for one home purchased in 2001, and five purchased in 2006 or later. Thus New Haven residents in general have decreasing reasons to view the south-of-the-highway portion of City Point as an exclusively White Anglo enclave.
Unlike a town or ward, a neighborhood is not a legally defined entity with precise boundaries. Thus residents never will agree on what constitutes City Point. The traditional East-West boundaries (Hallock & Greenwich Aves.) are generally uncontested because of the water that once defined these. Indeed, the street grid on modern maps of New Haven still allows one to visualize the narrow point that formerly was bounded by these avenues. On the other hand, the northern boundary always will remain controversial, because the perceived northern boundary of Oyster Point or the Oyster Point Quarter changed over time: from Columbus Ave., to the 1848 rail road cut, to the Northern edge of the 1867 map of new building lots, or even–in the opinion of those who know very little of the neighborhood's history–to Interstate 95.
Adding to the controversy is disagreement among residents as to whether City Point should be considered an independent neighborhood or one of several neighborhoods that constitute The Hill (or "Hill South"), i.e. along with Kimberly Square and Trowbridge Square. Considering the historical "migration" southward of City Point's perceived northern boundary, as well as the fact that Gerard Hallock was instrumental in developing both Trowbridge Square and City Point, perhaps an acceptable compromise would be to describe City Point as "a distinct neighborhood within a larger area that today is called The Hill". In stating this compromised definition, the author must point out that the steep rise from the shore of downtown's long-vanished West Creek upward along Congress Ave., a rise from which The Hill derived its name, was considered by New Haven residents and cartographers to be a distinct topographical feature from the steep bluff that once dropped from just North of Columbus Ave. over to Cedar St. and along Hallock Ave., down to the harbor.
But then, it also must be acknowledged that City Point is no longer a "point"!
Christopher Schaefer, a long-time member of the New Haven Museum And Historical Society, The New Haven Preservation Trust, the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has lived in City Point in the 1871 Lane-Hubbard House since 1986, and becomes visibly perturbed when told that he lives in a mythical neighborhood called "Hill South". Despite his proposed compromised definition in the preceding Epilogue, he personally prefers to think of City Point as a separate neighborhood, distinct from the Hill. However, despite rumors to the contrary, he currently has no plans to have it declared The Independent Republic Of City Point.
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SOURCES (With Notes)
Annual Report of the Board of Education of the New Haven City School District, for the year ending September, 1858 New Haven: T.J.Stafford, 1858
Annual Report …City School District, for the year ending Sept. 1, 1868 New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1868 [This is the first municipal report to list the former Oyster Point School as the City Point School– unfortunately with no explanation for the name change.]
Annual Report …City School District, for the year ending Aug. 31, 1877 New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1877
Atlas of the City of New Haven, Connecticut Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1888
Atwater, Edward, ed. History of the City of New Haven New York: H.W. Munsell & Co., 1887
Baldwin, Simeon Public Parks New Haven: Penderson & Crisand, 1881 [briefly mentions the history of The Cedars beach]
Barber, John W. History and Antiquities of New Haven, Connecticut from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time…3rd edition. New Haven: Penderson, Crisand & Co., 1870
Benham's New Haven Directory New Haven: J. H. Benham, 1858-59 [includes first listing of Oyster Point School], 1866-67 [now listed as City Point School], 1870-71, 1875 [The 1870-71 edition lists the City Point School at 20 Howard Ave., near S. Water St., and lists Second St. as being in City Point and Greenwich Ave. as extending from Kimberly Ave. to City Point. The other numbered streets of City Point as well as Hallock Ave. are not listed, since they had not yet been built upon. South Water St. is described as being in Oyster Point. Thus, at this time the names Oyster Point and City Point were being used interchangeably. This also would bolster the claim by some residents that City Point begins on the even-numbered side of Lamberton St., between Hallock & Howard Aves., since this is the northern boundary of the 1867 map of building lots.]
Brown, Elizabeth Mills New Haven: A Guide To Architecture and Urban Design New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976 [gives brief history of some of the houses in New Haven, including City Point]
Caplan, Colin M. A Guide to Historic New Haven, Connecticut Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2007 [guided walking/driving tours for New Haven history buffs; includes history of many City Point houses]
Carroll, J. Halsted Memorial of Gerard Hallock New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1866
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/CityPlan/pdfs/Maps/NeighborhoodPlanningMaps/Hill.pdf [This City Plan Dept. map of the Hill comprises all of the areas formerly known as Sodom Hill and The Oyster Point Quarter.]
www.census.gov [Both the Kimberly Square and the City Point neighborhoods together comprise New Haven's 2000 census tract no.1404. The City Plan Department's copy of this map labels tract 1404 "City Point", further adding to the traditional confusion and disagreement over what actually constitutes "City Point". The City Plan Dept.'s version of the census map also points out–quite correctly–that there are no "official" neighborhood boundaries in New Haven.]
City Yearbook of the City of New Haven, 1876 Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.
City Yearbook of the City of New Haven for 1932 New Haven: The S.Z. Field Co., 1933 [This edition includes a brief history of New Haven's major bridges, and describes the 1929 dredging at the mouth of the West River–the beginning of the end of the West River salt marsh.]
Court of Common Council [predecessor of Board of Aldermen], City of New Haven: Vol. 3, 1822-1833, p. 187 [3rd Sept., 1830; list of new streets in the Oyster Point Quarter: Putnum, Carlisle, Port-see, Columbus, Salem, Cedar, Liberty Sts., plus Spireworth Sq. (later renamed Trowbridge Sq.)] ; Vol. 4, 1833-1840, p. 268 [Nov. 12th, 1839; request to affix numbers to buildings in city so a directory can be compiled]; Vol. 11, p. 111 [May 4, 1868; plan of 1867 map of Hallock's heirs approved]
Dana, Arnold G. The Dana Collection aka New Haven Old and New New Haven Museum and Historical Society [invaluable collection of photos and newspaper clippings from New Haven's past]
Doolittle, Amos, engraver Plan of New Haven 1824 [map]
Ernst, Margaret M. Donald Grant Mitchell & the Birth of the New Haven Park System: An Urban Adaptation of Rural Republicanism New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1980
Galpin, Virginia M. New Haven's Oyster Industry: 1638-1987 New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1989
Goldberg, Cary, ed. inside New Haven's Neighborhoods: A Guide To The City Of New Haven New Haven: George E. Platt Co., 1982 [includes reflections by residents on the racial divide created when City Point was bisected by Interstate 95. Over twenty-five years after this book was published demographic segregation within the neighborhood gradually is dissipating.]
Hallock, Charles The Hallock-Holyoke Pedigree and Collateral Branches in the United States, Being a Revision of the Hallock Ancestry of 1866 prepared by Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, D.D. Amherst: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1906 ["At one time, before the (Civil) war, he was active in the Southern (Church) Aid Society…under whose auspices and furtherance the slaves of the South would have been manumitted without war or bloodshed, as summarily and peacefully as were the slaves of Brazil… It was Mr. Hallock's efforts to prevent forceful action that brought him to the inquisition of the anti-slavery politicians, who persisted in provoking a conflict, and thereby shortened his life." According to the death notice in the Hartford Courant, at the time of his death Gerard Hallock was New Haven's largest landowner.]
Hallock, William H. Life of Gerard Hallock New York: Oakley-Mason & Co., 1869 [son's rather defensive biography of his late father, who often was mis-characterized as having been pro-slavery. He in fact purchased the freedom of over 100 southern slaves. Devout Christian pacifist, defender of Constitutional law. Therefore felt "radical" abolitionism, i.e. use of coercion or northern Personal Freedom Laws (which defied federal Fugitive Slave Act) would cause anarchy, civil war and dissolution of Union. He believed–rather naively, we can say today–that the "spread of the Gospel" eventually would result in the end of slavery, so founded the Southern Church Aid Society. His editorials criticizing the Lincoln administration's unwillingness to negotiate with the South resulted in the Post Office refusing to deliver his New York Journal of Commerce, forcing him to retire to New Haven in 1861.]
Hartley, W. T., surveyor Map of Building Lots in the City of New Haven Belonging to the Heirs of Gerard Hallock, Deceased privately published, 1867 [The rail road continued to own the odd-numbered side of Lamberton St. just across from these new building lots into the 20th century.]
Hartley & Whitford, surveyors Map of the City of New Haven Philadelphia: Collins & Clark, 1851 [This map clearly shows the original location of "Hallock's Castle" and West Water St. below the bluff. A one-block fragment of West Water St. still survives behind the New Haven Police Headquarters: an obscure reminder of how far north the harbor once extended.]
Hill, Everett G. A Modern History Of New Haven And Eastern New Haven County 2 vols. New York: S. J. Clark Publishing Co., 1918
Hoose, Shoshana City Point New Haven: Schooner, Inc., c. 1979 [intended for students, includes reflections on City Point by older residents; also documents how I-95 had become a racial barrier by the early 1970s: City Point south of I-95 was nearly all white, City Point north of I-95 had become predominantly black & Hispanic and therefore increasingly considered by many residents to be part of The Hill rather than City Point.]
Howard Avenue Methodist Church Seventy-Fifth Anniversary 1950 [program of worship services and parish history]
Hughes, Arthur H. & Allen S. Morse Connecticut Place Names Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1976
Land Records, City of New Haven: Vol. 123, p.404 [deed transferring a parcel from G. Hallock to William S. Barnes, Oct. 25, 1847; apparently Barnes was the first oysterman on the point]; Vol. 126, p.415 [deed transferring a portion of the aforementioned parcel to Denison Hall, June 2, 1848]; Vol. 133, p.29 [deed transferring the aforementioned parcel from Hall to Richard W. Law, April 10, 1850; advertisements for Law's oyster co. state that it was founded in 1847. In an undated newspaper clipping given to this editor, Law's grandson is quoted as saying the company was founded in 1850.]
Land Records, City of New Haven: Vol. 172, p.37 [deed transferring 50′ X 100′ lot on Howard Ave. in Oyster Point from G. Hallock to The New Haven City School District, Feb. 6, 1858]; Vol. 322, p.280 [deed trasferring the City Point School to Mary Elizabeth Coe (wife of William Coe), Mar. 2, 1878]; Vol. 330, pp.125,352 [lien against Mary Coe for "repairs or remodeling" of "the City Point School House, No. 3 Howard Avenue" for $125.25 due; Nov.5,1878,Jan.25,1879; deeds do not yet assign a number to this property, but directories call it No. 20 Howard Ave.]; Vol. 391, p.67 [$1,600 mortgage with New Haven savings Bank, Sept. 26, 1887–possibly to transform the old one-room school house into the 1880s-style residential structure that exists today, & likely incorporating at least the foundation of the former school house?]; Vol. 491, p. 98 [additional $5,000 mortgage taken out by Coe, secured by this & two other City Point properties, Sept. 28, 1897]; [author unable to locate deed transferring property from Coe to J.Smith, despite hours spent cross-checking indexes; obstacles include nearly illegible script, similar descriptions of nearby lots, & no street address number on property deeds] Vol. 519, p. 540 [deed transferring ownership from Jeremiah Smith to Nellie Manville, May 11, 1899; Vol. 523, p. 159, Vol. 529, p.404 restore original lot dimensions]; Vol. 663, p. 476 [deed transferring same lot–now described as No. 44 Howard Ave.– from N. Manville to Chauncey L. Wedmore, May 18, 1911; first deed to give this property a street number in its description; house numbering system was changed on Howard Ave. at least once between 1888 & 1911]
Land Records, City of New Haven: Vol. 262, p. 578 [deed transferring ownership of lot bounded by Hallock, Sixth & Howard to David Shelton, Jan. 29, 1872]; Vol. 339, p. 374 [deed transferring church building from D. Shelton to Methodist congregation, Oct. 19, 1880]; Vol. 348, p. 48 [deed transferring lot at Fourth St. & Howard Ave. from David Shelton to Howard Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church, July 15, 1881]
Land Records, City of New Haven: Vol. 380, p. 471, March 3rd, 1886 "The City of New Haven has taken for the definite layout of South Water Street from the Easterly line of Greenwich Avenue extended, to the Southerly line of Sea Street a strip of land sixty feet (60′) wide, or so much of said strip as was not already dedicated to the use of a street from the owners fronting on said strip; namely from…" [The document then names nearly everyone who owned property on South Water Street in 1886. It then refers to Map No. 382 dated Aug. 5th, 1872. The planned extension of Greenwich Ave. from Sea St. to S. Water St., referred to above and shown in the aforementioned map as well as in the 1867 map commissioned by Gerard Hallock's heirs, never was carried out.]
Lattanzi, Robert M. Oyster Village To Melting Pot: The Hill Section Of New Haven Chester, Conn.: Pattaconk Brook Publ., 2000 [The upward slope from the former West Creek to the "suburbs" caused the area around present-day Congress Ave. to be named "Sodom Hill", Mount Pleasant" and finally "The Hill".]
Mitchell, Donald Grant Mitchell Collection aka Donald Grant Mitchell Papers (Mss 140) New Haven Colony Historical Society [includes his notes for developing Oyster Point Reservation/Bay View Park]
New Haven Directory (including West Haven) New Haven: Price & Lee Co., 1876, 1877, 1881, 1882, 1887, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1907, 1919 [1891 edition includes one of the first city maps showing the not-yet-named Bay View Park.] Several of the above sources (Brown, Caplan, Lattanzi) confirm that the Howard Ave. Methodist Church building originally stood at Howard & Sixth Street, but New Haven directories do not corroborate this, giving only the original S. Water St location, & later the Fourth St. & Howard Ave. location. This likely is because during the church's temporary location on Sixth St., the parsonage still was located on S. Water St.]
http://magrissoforte.com [another great source (besides The New Haven Museum and Historical Society aka New Haven Colony Historical Society) for historic New Haven photos. Also historic property research]
New Haven Preservation Trust & Conn. Historical Commissionn, Anne F. Niles, ed. New Haven Historic Resources Inventory, Phase I: Central New Haven 1982 [This gives the northern boundary of City Point as the rear yards of 20-32 Lamberton, which is inconsistent with the fact that these addresses–originally a single building lot facing Hallock Ave., but later subdivided–are on Hartley's 1867 map of new building lots. It was shortly after these building lots were drawn up that the name City Point gradually began to displace the name Oyster Point.]
http://nhpt.org/index.php/site/district/trowbridge_square_historic_district/ [a history of Trowbridge Square, one of the three neighborhoods, along with City Point & Kimberly Square, which comprised the old Oyster Point Quarter]
Osterweiss, Rollin G. Three Centuries of New Haven, 1638-1938 New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1953
Patten's New Haven Directory, for the year 1840 New Haven: James M. Patten, 1840
Rackliffe, Pamela A. The Origin and Development of the New Haven Parks Designed by Donald Grant Mitchell: The First Three Decades (Masters Thesis) Storrs, Conn.: University of Connecticut, 1987 [The author alternates between spelling City Point's park as one word "Bayview" or two "Bay View". D. G. Mitchell's plans for the park use two words "Bay View".]
Shumway, Floyd & Richard Hegel New Haven: An Illustrated History Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publ. Inc. 1987
Townshend, Doris The Streets of New Haven: The Origin of Their Names New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1984
Town and City Atlas of the State of Connecticut Boston: D. H. Hurd & Co., 1893
United States Coast Survey From a survey made for the City of New Haven, Connecticut, Sheet No. 6[topographical map] New Haven: 1877 [interior of the city executed by the City Engineer's Office]
Visel, Timothy C. New Haven's lost natural oyster beds – Account of George McNeil, son of J. P. McNeil of The McNeil Oyster Company paper given at the Sound School, New Haven, June 2010
Warner, Robert Austin New Haven Negroes: A Social History New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1940 [The 1949 dredging of New Haven Harbor & 1950s construction of the Connecticut Turnpike/I-95 buried all but a remnant of the ancient 3/4 mile Long Wharf which once began near the present Knights of Columbus Museum, and was last expanded in 1812 by New Haven's "Black King" William Lanson, a prominent leader of New Haven's free black community.]
Withington, Sidney The First Twenty Years of Railroads in Connecticut New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935 [The Derby Rail Road opened on Aug. 8, 1871, but the rail road's "cut" through New Haven appears on the map in J. W. Barber's 1870-71 directory, so that portion likely already had been constructed by 1870. Also seewww.TylerCityStation.info re. the Derby Rail Road.]
www.yaleslavery.org [Site includes information on Rev. Simeon Jocelyn who founded nearby Spireworth (later called Trowbridge) Square in 1830 where free blacks and whites would live together. When he proposed establishment of country's first Negro College a white mob stoned his house. (Northerners generally were opposed to slavery, but did not support equal rights.) In 1833 state passed "Black Law" outlawing such schools (including Prudence Crandall's in Canterbury, CT). Law repealed in 1838. In 1850s Gerard Hallock further developed the Trowbridge Square area. Also see www.yale.edu/glc/crandall/index.htm regarding correspondence between Jocelyn and Crandall.]
Walljasper, Jay The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-yourself Guide to Placemaking New Society Publ., 2007


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Last night, early results indicated that at least 20 ministers in the Kibaki government had lost their seats in parliament, a sign that people were voting against the government. Although, there was sufficient evidence to warrant further review of the election, there was a rush to judgment by the election commission and the president was immediately declared he winner. It was not merely a rush to judgment, it was a rush to corruption.


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