Edgewood Park

Edgewood Park is one of the defining features of New Haven. It holds many memories and gives a lot of opportunities to tourists and city residents. It also has a lot of facilities to keep people busy, like a basketball court, skating park and a playground. This park is a place to go and relax, where you can hear the birds chirping and just sit back and enjoy nature around you.

Donald Mitchell, a Westville resident, made most of the donations so that the park could be designed and created. In 1889, New Haven decided to accept the land for the park. Fredrick Louis Olmsted, the designer of New York’s Central Park, planned Edgewood Park.

Holocaust Memorial Monument

The Holocaust Memorial Monument is located at the corner of Whalley Avenue and West Park Avenue. This was the first holocaust memorial in the country to be built on public land, which was Mayor Frank Logue’s idea. This monument was built to honor the Jews who died in the Holocaust. At the ceremony for the monument ashes from Auschwitz were buried there by local holocaust survivors. The six rusty iron shafts symbolize the fences which surrounded the concentration camps. The color of the rust symbolizes stains of blood. They also planted 6 trees around the monument to honor the 6 million lives that were taken at the concentration camps.

Troup Magnet Middle School

Troup middle school, located on Edgewood Avenue, was named after Augusta Lewis Troup. She died five years before they opened the school, which was in 1925. She organized America’s first ever female labor union. She also published a newspaper advocating women’s suffrage. She is one of New Haven’s heroines. Inside Troup there are famous paintings and statues. For example there is a portrait in front of the school called Citizenship. At the present day, Troup is shut down. The state is planning on remodeling the school with the attempt to save the paintings.

Day Street

Day Street has been part of New Haven for over 100 years. It was founded by Jeremiah Day in the early 1800’s. He is a graduate of Yale, where he became a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. He also became the President of the college in 1817, but retired in 1846. Day Street has changed a lot over the years. In the late 1800’s, there was a lot of upper class people. Today there are many African-Americans in the neighborhood.

Saint Raphael's Hospital

Saint Raphael's is a 511-bed academic health science center affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine. The Hospital was founded in 1907 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. The sisters came to New Haven to start the hospital. The name "Saint Raphael" was chosen for special reasons. Saint Raphael is not just a saint of the Catholic Church, but is one of the archangels recognized by many faiths. Translated from the Hebrew, Raphael means "God has healed." The archangel Raphael is revered as a patron of the sick and healing.

Spanish–American War Monument

Spanish-American War Memorial is just south of the ranger station in Edgewood Park. There, you can find this bronze statue of a soldier. This tribute is for those who fought in the Spanish-American War. This War occurred after the U.S.S. Maine was sunk in the Havana Harbor on Feb. 15, 1898.

Saint Brendan's Church

Saint Brendan's Church was established in 1913 in a frame church on Carmel Avenue. Growing numbers of Catholics in the city led to building a new church, here on the corner of Whalley Avenue and Ellsworth Avenue, which was opened in 1924. The building of the church was started in the early 1920’s. The design is Romanesque with an exterior of seam-faced stone. The rectory was completed in 1929. The convent was built in 1939 and the school opened in September 1956. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Garden have been at this Church since 1974.

- Tina Celentano, Dezshaun Thomas, Tia Streater, and Chris Williams