C.+New+Haven+County

** ﻿ Locations with * denote field trips the school went on last year. **

**Yale University** 203-432-2300 (149 Elm Street New Haven) Yale offers free guided tours of the campus. The Greater New Haven Convention and Visitors Bureau provides free maps and information on local sights and events. More than 300 years of history and architecture and can be seen on these tours. The only three structures on the New Haven Green are the churches – Trinity, Center and United – which were erected between 1812 and 1815 and are in Gothic, Georgian and Federal styles, respectively. A statue of Nathan Hale is located there; he also was a student. A little way up the street is the legendary Mory’s, a private club immortalized in “The Whiffenpoof Song.” [|www.newhavencvb.org]

**Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library** (121 Wall Street New Haven) Made from granite and translucent marble, this landmark “seems to float above a sunken court” featuring many sculptures. Inside you will find a Gutenberg Bible, original Audubon prints and other exhibits. [|www.library.yale/edu/beinecke]

**Yale University Art Gallery** (1111 Chapel Street New Haven) Known for American, European, African, Asian, and pre-Colombian works, the gallery also showcases a special gallery devoted to John Trumbull, an artist-patriot of the American Revolution. There also is an outdoor sculpture garden. [|www.yale.edu/artgallery]

**Yale Center for British Art** (1080 Chapel Street New Haven)

**Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History** (170 Whitney Avenue New Haven) Come see the dinosaurs! There also is a small Egypt exhibit and a large series of dioramas. [|www.peabody.yale.edu]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**New Haven Colony Historical Society** (114 Whitney Avenue New Haven) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The society has a collection of furniture and decorative arts from early New Haven homes, an art gallery, maritime collection and industrial displays. Closed Mondays. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.nhchs.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Eli Whitney Museum** (915 Whitney Avenue New Haven) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This museum is dedicated to the New Haven industrialist who invented the cotton gin. There also is at the site an armory that helped jumpstart the American industrial revolution. The museum’s workshops offer hands-on projects “in the tradition of Yankee ingenuity.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.eliwhitney.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">***Lyman Auditorium at Southern Connecticut State University** (501 Crescent Stree New Haven) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Shoreline Trolley Museum** (17 River Street East Haven) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This site includes a small museum where visitors can see the history of the trolley car, practice changing train lights, and see how **force pretend to XXXX**. Students also can ride classic antique trolleys along a scenic one-and-a-half mile route. On the trip, you will see native flora and fauna including herons, deer and orioles. Midway, there is a guided tour and the chance to see and climb aboard other trolleys including the Presidents Conference Committee (PCC) car, the Trolley Dodgers car (a trolley that was responsible for the Brooklyn baseball team’s name, and a trolley car with a snow plow. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|www.bera.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Sleeping Giant** (Hamden area 203-789-7498) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This series of mountains is two miles north of Hamden and looks like a giant sleeping on its back. There are more than 32 miles of trails that cover the "man's" anatomy (head, chin and chest). There is a stone tower at the top where students can see over the valley and have lunch.