Magrisso Forte The Hill

The Hill

Including the City Point Neighborhood

The Hill Neighborhood in the Southern part of New Haven was named for a rise in the land. Originally dubbed Mount Pleasant, its name was soon changed to Sodom Hill due to the increasing number of tanneries and surround slums. Much of The Hill was left open for pasture although it experienced early residential development. City Point, the neighborhood's souther terminous used to be a peninsila. It was first named Oyster Point, due to it's early oyster harvesting industry. The Hill was the city's most populous neighborhood and was the center social unrest in the 1960s-70s.


Washington & Congress Avenues c1975	69 Daggett Street, Seamless Rubber Co. c1895	291 Howard Avenue, Henry Fresenius House c1895	Howard Avenue & Forth Street c1930	Howard Avenue & South Water Street October 9, 1943

Howard Avenue & South Water Street November 9, 1947	Howard Avenue & South Water Street November 9, 1947	Howard Avenue & South Water Street November 9, 1947	South Water Street, Jeremiah Smith & Sons c1890	Mortuary Chamber, Evergreen Cemetery c1880
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Congress Avenue & Liberty Street c1925	Congress Avenue & Liberty Street c1925	Congress & Howard Avenues c1945	Congress Avenue & Vernon Street c1925	Congress Avenue & White Street c1920

Congress Avenue & West Street c1930	Congress & Columbus Avenue c1960	Congress Avenue & Boulevard c1920	Congress Avenue & Boulevard c1925	Union Avenue & Putnam Street c1945

Spring & Cedar Streets c1930	Spring & Cedar Streets May 1931	Carlisle & Cedar Streets c1921	Howard & Congress Avenues c1950	Howard & Washington Avenues c1925

Howard & Kimberly Avenues July 1933	Kimberly & Howard Avenues c1930	Kimberly & Howard Avenues c1920	Kimberly Avenue & Lamberton Street c1930	Lamberton Street & Kimberly Avenue c1925

Kimberly Avenue & Grant Street c1925	Kimberly Avenue & Grant Street c1925	Kimberly Avenue & Grant Street c1920	Kimberly Avenue at the West River c1918	Kimberly Avenue at the West River c1925

Kimberly Avenue at the West River c1925
Joseph Taylor Collection

Rosette Street School, Rosette & Dewitt Streets c1900	Howard & Kimberly Avenues c1910	143 Kimberly Avenue c1910	Kimberly Avenue Bridge at the West River, taken by H. M. Howard July 13, 1904	Kimberly Avenue Bridge at the West River, taken by H. M. Howard 1905

77 Ward Street c1880	Davenport Avenue & Ward Street, St. John's Episcopal Church with soldiers from the Connecticut 1st Regiment Civil War Volunteers marching. Photographed by Major Moulthrop c1865	Davenport Avenue & Ward Street, Church of the Ascention 1893	Winthrop Avenue Gate, Evergreen Cemetary, c1900	Fire Memorial, Evergreen Cemetary, c1890

Howard & Congress Avenues c1890	Howard Avenue & Lamberton Street, All Saints Church 1893	Howard Avenue & Lamberton Street, All Saints Church c1895	348 Howard Avenue c1912	332 Howard Avenue c1905

Howard Avenue & Third Street 1893	City Point c1925	South Water & Sea Streets, City Point 1890	City Point c1910	City Point c1915

City Point c1930	City Point c1910