Spring Glen | |
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neighborhood | |
 Major commercial area of Spring Glen | |
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| Coordinates: 41°21′43″N 72°54′22″W / 41.362°N 72.906°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Connecticut |
| County | New Haven |
| Town | Hamden and North Haven |
| Population | 4,959 |
Spring Glen is a neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the town of Hamden, Connecticut. It is primarily residential, mostly single-family homes with a few two-family. Commercial development is entirely on its principal street, Whitney Avenue.[1] It was developed throughout the first half of the twentieth century as a trolley suburb of New Haven. It was named for the Spring Glen dairy farm established by James J. Webb in 1858 in what would become part of the neighborhood.[2]
There are no officially established boundaries for the neighborhood. The Spring Glen Civic Association has it bounded on the north by Skiff Street, on the east by Hartford Turnpike, on the south by Waite Street (including three small streets extending a bit south of Waite), and on the west by Lake Whitney and Mill River. This definition includes a small portion of the adjoining town of North Haven.[3] The census tract with GEOID 09009165500, corresponding closely to the Hamden portion of the neighborhood, had a population of 4,959, as of the 2010 census.
- ^ [1] Archived 2020-09-12 at the Wayback Machine,Neighborhood Scout overview of Spring Glen
- ^ Becker, Martha May (1986). Hamden: Our Architectural Heritage. Whitney Press. p. 87.
- ^ [2] Archived 2020-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Spring Glen Civic Association