A Cedar Hill Welcome

great job! I rode out here and checked it out. Looks very nice. I'm glad to see hard-working people like Turcio and Pinto (and many others) dedicating themselves to improving our neighborhood.

Excellent Wikipedia page, the source and additional research links are great. Thanks for putting so much time and effort in to improving your neighborhood and making information accessible to the public, Ceder Hill residents!

Can not take credit for this one. Our amazing Merchants and Mike and Clay made this happen!! And I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reclaiming their historical name one step at a time.

That is what the Cedar Hill Community has been spending the better part of a decade doing.

You all forgot to do this.

Recycling Waste And Unwanted Politicians

Where do we recycle unwanted politicians, or indeed unsuccessful former City Council Managers?

In Ireland Seanad Éireann is a good hiding place for rubbish politicians. They can keep their heads down and draw a good salary, or as recently mentioned in a national press article, they can decide to slip away to spend more time with their outrageously generous pensions…. and reminisce on all those great deeds they performed for the sake of Ireland. City Council Managers who presided over numerous fiasco's simply find a gullible County Council to take them on as 'County Managers', it's great

hey my little fraction

:P

a decade ago this community was a rough place to live. Still is in many ways. But with an on going effort the merchants have united and are making improvements and are communicating. The people that live here are doing the same. All while fighting the gentrification of this community. I think that this is a major big deal!

And yes reclaiming its history is a big part of it. When I went out to the historical library to do the research. I was told most of this areas history was lost during the building of I95.... the desecrated the homes and shops and isolated the community. We dug hard and got proof of some of it. Much was being claimed to be the history of several other community's. Which it was not. Even when I was doing the wiki page it happened...see discussion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:East_Rock_(neighborhood)

saving history is a big thing!

ps. We meet with Colin M. Caplan many years ago...he had documented some of Cedar Hill history and he was the one that sparked all of this...at least for me.
He is a true save of New Havens real history!

LOVE it!!! And don't be so reluctant to take credit. This sign and beautification is all part of the collaborative effort of bringing up a community. Everybody who is working towards community can take credit for every act. It's all about the same thing - making our neighborhoods comfortable places to live/work/play/drive thru.

I say again... LOVE it!!!

The East Rock faction highjacked "Goatville" and now claim streets in the Cedar Hill Community...according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:East_Rock_neighborhood...Goatville also has a history...many of their historians are deceased but some are still around...

@Edward Francis:
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We're all in this (life) together. Why try to create a division?

Streever I have no intention to create a division - just stating the facts. When a person has been brought up from birth in a neighborhood they know the facts. The Mill River was the dividing line between "Goatville and Cedar Hill". I-91 took away part of the Cedar Hill neighborhood and someone else took away Goatville.

Edward,
Cedar Hill is too small to be its own ward so it makes sense for it to either combine with Goatville or Fair Haven's northwest ward. However, just because it is combined in the ward districting does not mean that both communities cease to be unique, stand alone communities.
I agree that it is unfortunate that Goatville was encapsulated under the moniker of "East Rock" by the real estate industry and opportunistic homeowners who wanted to artificially raise house prices in what was traditionally a working and rising middle class area southwest of Orange. Rationalizing the districting in New Haven will help with governance, but it does not necessarily have to blur the lines between distinct communities in social and physical terms as well.
I have to admit to using the term "East Rock" just because it's what I'm used to saying, but i agree that its an unfortunate development in linguistic choices that translate to problems in making East Rock an accessible neighborhood to all income levels.

Jonathan: Your comments are appreciated, however, the neighborhood designation has nothing to do with "Voting Wards". Population trends dictate ward boundaries and they have changed over the years. Many Wards overlap neighborhoods.

When High School in the Community was located at 45 Nash Street, (the old Lovell School building) one of their history class projects was entitled "Goatville Revisited". East Rock was never mentioned.

You understand what has happened with the neighborhood name. Why not do the right thing and refer to it as Goatville!

Edward feeling ya! I am no historian. But with a little elbow grease and a love of my community and a majority of the active people that live in my area (including the silver crowd that only know this area as Cedar Hill) the name have been rejuvenated.
As JH said
We are now technically in the ward and district of East Rock so our street names are part of it. But the history is a separate issue. Same with goatville. It is a neighborhood with in a district. I will see if in the future I can do a little research and set up a wiki page to start documenting some of the history of that area. :)

what beautiful work done by a beautiful artist...how proud we are of you!!!!

Joan & Bob