The Environment of Colonial New Haven

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Across
  1. 4. Tree, now absent from New Haven’s forests, that provided Native peoples and colonists with food
  2. 15. Geologic event that formed much of New Haven’s landscape as we see it today
  3. 16. Primary colonial land use in The Hill
  4. 17. Bird that that once darkened New Haven’s skies during its seasonal migrations, now extinct
  5. 18. Country where many of New Haven's first Black residents came from
  6. 23. Country where many of New Haven's early settlers hailed from
  7. 27. Type of transoceanic trade economy to which New Haven became tethered in the 17th century
  8. 28. Primary colonial land use in Newhallville
  9. 29. Aquatic product important to the local economy
  10. 31. Primary colonial land use in Westville
  11. 32. Original 18th-century name for Fair Haven Heights (hint, it’s also an animal)
  12. 33. Primary colonial land use in Wooster Square
  13. 34. Mineral that gives East Rock and West Rock their dark brown-red color
  14. 35. Primary colonial land use in Fair Haven
  15. 39. Smaller water body that brought ship traffic into New Haven in the colonial era
  16. 42. Larger water body that brought ships from the West Indies and Europe
  17. 43. Primary colonial land use in Cedar Hill
  18. 44. Key resource shipped from New Haven to New York and England in the eighteenth century
  19. 46. European farming practice that reshaped New Haven’s landscape
  20. 48. Material from East Rock and West Rock that now rests in the walls of some old New Haven homes
  21. 49. Structure where early New Haven settlers harnessed water power for milling grain
Down
  1. 1. Type of waterbody that used to occupy a portion of the railroad tracks that now service the MetroNorth and Amtrak lines
  2. 2. Second most common tree species planted around the town center
  3. 3. River forming New Haven’s western boundary
  4. 5. Animal hunted and eliminated from New Haven area for its furs
  5. 6. In official records, New Haven was a colony and a...
  6. 7. Second most important colonial export from New Haven
  7. 8. Additional product important to the local colonial economy
  8. 9. Defensive site on New Haven Harbor formerly used to protect the city from maritime attack
  9. 10. A religious group of English Protestants, 500 of whom settled New Haven in 1638
  10. 11. Primary colonial land use near Grove Street
  11. 12. Primary colonial land use in Mill River area
  12. 13. Geometry of New Haven’s initial 1638 town plan
  13. 14. Exploitation by a stronger country of a weaker one; the use of the weaker country’s resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
  14. 19. Institution that underpinned New Haven and other British-American colonies’ economies by the early 18th century
  15. 20. Primary colonial land use in Dwight
  16. 21. Geologic event that formed East Rock and West Rock 200 million years ago
  17. 22. Location of one of New Haven’s oldest surviving colonial structures, the Pardee-Morris House
  18. 24. Animal central to colonist’s agricultural economy
  19. 25. Actual animal that settlers found basking on Fair Haven Heights’ shores
  20. 26. Feline animal that roamed the forests of New England in seventeenth century
  21. 30. A group of people who lived in New Haven for thousands of years before the Puritans arrived
  22. 36. Formation at the center of New Haven’s town plan
  23. 37. Most common tree species planted by colonists around the town center
  24. 38. Deep-water harbor extension that enabled trade with the West Indies and Mid-Atlantic and New England ports
  25. 40. River whose mouth and flats supported oystering and haying in early New Haven
  26. 41. Primary colonial land use in Dixwell
  27. 43. Predatory land mammal that also roamed the forests and sometimes streets
  28. 45. Place where colonial settlers harvested forage for their cattle, oxen, and horses
  29. 47. Primary colonial land use in East Rock