The decision was a powerful moral and legal victory for the antislavery forces. The Amistad abductees were repatriated to Africa, and the committee formed to help them was incorporated in 1846 as the American Missionary Association. The AMA went on to found more than 500 schools for those emancipated by the Civil War and, later, many noted institutions of higher learning, including Atlanta University, Fisk University and Howard University. schools of medicine, divinity, law, art and architecture, music, forestry, engineering and drama and a graduate school. By 1887 it was time to rename it Yale University.
Now a member of the Ivy League, Yale has one of the finest libraries in the country, with many rare manuscripts. Yale may be the best-known school in the vicinity, but New Haven is also home to the University of New Haven and Southern Connecticut State College. Orientation Entering New Haven along 1-95 or 1-91 (which joins 1-95 right in the city), take l-95 exit 47 for cr 34, the Oak St Connector, to reach New Haven Green, the city center, with Yale to its west. From the Wilbur Cross Parkway, take exit 57, 59 or 60 and follow the signs to the center. Most hotels and sights are within a few blocks of the green. The bus and train stations are near 1-95 in the southeast part of the city.
Information Tourist Offices The Greater New Haven Convention & Visitors Bureau. Yale University has a Visitor Information Center Elm St at Temple St, on the north side of the green, where you can get free campus maps and a self-guided walking-tour pamphlet. Guided tours depart the center at 10:30 am and 2 pm weekdays, at 1:30 pm weekends. Travel Agencies There's a Council Travel office at 320 Elm St. Bookstores To get in touch with the student population, the Yale Co-Op Broadway, has not only a great number of books but also Yale sweatshirts and souvenirs. The Atticus Bookstore Cafe is a huge favorite; see Places to Eat, below. Dangers & Annoyances As a working city, New Haven has urban pleasures and problems, including street crime. You should Connecticut Coast New Haven 391 meet with no problems during the day in the city center, but avoid run-down neighborhoods and empty streets after dark, and don't leave anything visible in your parked car to tempt thieves.
New Haven Green New Haven's traditional town green, the spiritual center of the city, is spacious and framed by its beautiful churches. The Trinity Church (Episcopal), on Chapel St, resembles England's Gothic York Minster. The Georgian-style Center Church on the Green (UCC), a good example of New England's interpretation of Palladian architecture, harbors many colonial tombstones in its crypt. At the northeastern corner of the green is United Church (UCC), another Georgian Palladian work. Grove Street Cemetery, at 227 Grove St three blocks north of the green, has the graves of several famous New Havenites behind its grand Egyptian-Revival gate (1845), including rubber magnate Charles Goodyear, the telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, lexicographer Noah Webster and cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney.
Yale University Established in 1702 by Connecticut's colonial government as the Collegiate School, this institution was first at Killingworth, then at Say brook. It finally moved to New Haven in1717. A year later it was renamed in honor of Elihu Yale (1649-1721), a wealthy British businessman, philanthropist and benefactor whose donations of books and capital allowed the school to construct a college building. The third-oldest university in the nation, Yale can boast many distinguished alumni and alumnae, including Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, Gerald Ford and William Howard Taft, as well as Hillary Rodharn Clinton, Noah Webster, Eli Whitney and Samuel FB Morse. Crowded with University Gothic buildings, Yale's old campus dominates the northern and western portions of downtown New Haven.
