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could achieve spiritual, moral and (hopefully) economic betterment." Development remained slow until the 1850s, when Thomas
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Trowbridge Square Historic District is centered on a Trowbridge Square, a small square park located southwest of downtown New Haven and northwest of the city's historic working port areas. The surrounding streets were laid out in apparent emulation of the nine-square plan by which New Haven was
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