The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-01

Haven Clock Co.'S extensive works; the original building stood uut in an open field with post ana rail fences enclosing it as was also St. John street at that time and later At the foot of St. John street was carpet factory with dwellings for the operatives: the venture was not @ financ.al success. One of those operative buildings was removed to Pine street Fair Haven, within block of the Quinnipiac river only recently demolished,
 Then there were other decided To- calities in New Township known as Slineyville, whera The IrishTan wno came to work on the can9i first l0cat- ed, this was the lower pat of Chest nut street and I am tod the first mass said in a building In New Haven ny priest of the Roman Catholic church was in barn now standing on that street between Wo0ster and Chapel At the foot of Greene street stood the "Old Libe.' a colored re- sort not of a very enviaDle reputation and kept by man called King Lan son; the place finally lrnt up. The Mallory & Wheeler Co.'S buildings stand on this land. On thc lower end of Greene street was an ax factory. A stone building, one story. When the L. Candee &; Co. Rubber works burnt at Centerville they came here and cc- cupied this stone building, it and the adjoining property is now covered by the enormous factories of the l.. Can dee Co. of to-day There was Sodom Hill sand bank on 'aa way from Church street out Congress avenue, the old New York X Boston turnpike; the stucco house now relegated to the rear facing on Washington avenue was hotel in the days of stage coaches and the last stop of ths stage was made here on its trip to New York and the first corning to New Ha- ven; the stables where the relay of horses were made was just west of George street on Congress avenue where the market nov stands. John Babcock was the proprietor of the line. Sidney Babcock ran his printing of flee in the stable yard fronting On Congress avenue. I th'nx John and Sidney were brothers but of this I am not sure.
 It may be of interest to some who may wade through this article to know that George street derived it's name from King George; Grown street for the Grown and York street from the fact that the Yorkshire people who first settled in New Haven To- cated there
 This brings me down to my objec- tive point on which I propose to write viz: Orange street from Elm to Hum phrey which was the northerly term. mus of Orange street and possibly in cluding some of the intersectine streets and start out from "Coley. ville." a location l venture to say will be unknown to most of those who will read this article.
 Orange street was opened from Humphrey to Mill river by the late Pierpont Foster and heirs of the Whitney estate, in the sos.
 In 1885 the land between Audubon and Bradley streets was shown on 2 survey in 25 foot front building lots and put up at auction in New York city by Franklin and Jenks auction. eers. On that map Audubon was call ed First street. Trumbull 3d and Brad ley Sd; at this time the land belonged to the Hillhouse estate as did thu property on the easterly side O Orange. In 1899 my father bought tn, property (now owned by Mrs. Curtiss widow of a former principal of tn, High schooD of Justin Redfield wh, was Gardner Morse's predecessor a collector of taxes MT Redfield |, politics was a Loco Foco, Democra so called in those days.
 Horatio G. and William G. Red field cashier and assistant cashier O the County bank are the son an, grandson of Justin.
 MT. Redfield upon selling his hous