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Farmington Canal near Mount Carmel, Hamden.


Title main	Farmington Canal near Mount Carmel, Hamden.
Subject	Sleeping Giant (Conn.)
Subject	Mount Carmel (Conn.) Hamden (Conn.)
Subject	Canals Children Mountains
Subject	New Haven and Northampton Canal (Conn. and Mass.)
Category	Environment Infrastructure
Description	A girl and three boys stand on a dirt path between a canal and a dirt road. Utility poles line the road and are reflected in the water. A Virginia rail fence is beside a vertical-boarded building, possibly a barn. Trees are behind the house and on the wooded slopes of Mount Carmel in the background. Typewritten inscription beneath image: "Mt.Carmel, Conn."
Description notes	Mount Carmel is the highest peak of the Sleeping Giant, or the entire range. Sleeping Giant State Park was established in 1925. The Farmington Canal, which opened in 1828, ran from Southwick, Massachusetts to New Haven.
Date created	[between 1890 and 1909]
Format extent	1 photographic print ; 17 x 22 cm.
Format medium	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1974.31.1.36 File name 0525 img0087.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
SeqNum	3132
ObjCol	Photographs

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