Today is fun day because we visit the historical museum in New Haven.
I was thinking that we have less opportunity to know about history of New Haven,
even though we are now here.
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| Front of the New Haven Museum |
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| Sign of the museum |
After we payed for entry fee (two dollars per person for students discount), we could see a lot of contents regarding New Haven's history. My initial impression of the city was just collage town, but the city has many remarkable history, culture, and industries. I would like to focus on industry in New Haven at today's blog entry.
According to display, New Haven was one of the most industrial city in U.S. in 19th century.
The kind of industries were, for example, bewildering variety of goods including hardware, carriages, automobile parts, accessories, corsets, clocks, carpeting, rubber overshoes, clothing, musical instruments and small consumer goods.
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| Garment factory "Smoothie" |
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| Industrial Area in New Haven |
One of the famous industry was bicycle production. There are several type of old bicycle.
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| Bicycle factory |
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| Old style bicycle |
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| Bicycle factory |
Next one is corsets industry. It is said that New Haven was biggest industry area of corsets production in the world in 19th century.
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| Corset |
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| Corset |
The concentration of such industries was due to the presence of harver where was able to gather coal, metals, cotton, and other raw materials from production area.
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| New Haven Harbor |
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| New Haven Steamboat Company |
Anyway, I found that New Haven has more interesting history, especially industries, than I expected.
I excited to visit the museum.
NEW HAVEN MUSEUM
114 WHITNEY AVENUE, NEW HAVEN, CT
www.newhavenmuseum.org
I'm surprised at your excellent examining details of New Haven. So cool.
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