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Throughout its history East Rock has contained residences of faculty and alumni from neighboring Yale
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The current East Rock neighborhood remained unsettled farmland into the 1800s, when its largest landowner was
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Goatville (around Upper State Street) and a Polish population formed around St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church. A commercial district
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261:August 2022
154:Connecticut
124:Connecticut
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1339:East Shore
1313:West River
1293:Mill River
1288:Long Wharf
1253:City Point
1248:Cedar Hill
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1048:2019-09-09
1020:References
1004:Willow St.
977:Welton St.
965:Warren Pl.
855:Orange St.
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664:Foster St.
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325:. Before
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213:Geography
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150:New Haven
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1364:Category
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1278:Edgewood
1263:Downtown
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