What Is This Project?

I’ve lived in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood for years. Growing up in neighboring Hamden, I learned a lot about the area’s history in elementary school. I came across this Wikipedia article that has a table explaining the etymologies of East Rock street names. Most of this information comes from the book, The Streets of New Haven: The Origin of Their Names.

I did a lot of research on my own, especially when it came to finding more about the back stories of the people whom certain streets are named after.

East Rock Park covers New Haven and Hamden. For this project, I am only defining East Rock as the neighborhood in the city of New Haven (highlighted in pink on Google Maps):