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Gilder Boathouse is the main facility for the sport of rowing at Yale University. It is located on the bank of Lake Housatonic in Derby, Connecticut along Connecticut Route 34. It is a 22,000 square feet (2,000 m 2) facility. It lies at the finish line of Yale's 2,000-meter race course.
The New Haven Rowing Club is a private, non-profit, rowing club on the Housatonic River in Oxford, Connecticut, United States of America. [3] Founded in 1970 by Tony Johnson, [ 4 ] Yale University Rowing coach, to allow him to continue training his athletes throughout the summer.
Indian Well State Park is a public recreation area occupying 153 acres (62 ha) on the west bank of Lake Housatonic, an impoundment of the Housatonic River, within the city limits of Shelton, Connecticut. The state park's scenic features include a 15-foot (4.6 m) horsetail waterfalls with splash pool at bottom. [3]
CCC Company 1752, the Erosioners, replaced them two years later, and they built many of the facilities in the park. With the start of World War II, the CCC left the camp. The National Youth Association used the camp from 1940 to 1942. [3] In 1943 the camp became Prisoner of War (POW) Compound #13, and it housed German and Italian POWs until 1945.
After his high school and college experience in sweep-oar rowing, Biglow switched to solo sculling (rowing with two oars) in 1981. [2] He was the best US single sculler in the early 1980s. [ 5 ] He was noted as powerful finisher, whose muscles allowed increasing output towards the end of a race, whereas other competitors might tire towards the ...
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Great Falls of the Housatonic River below the Falls Village dam. The river has been a source of power for paper, iron, textiles, and electricity industries. [6] At Great Barrington, a grist mill built by David Ingersoll in 1739 used the river for power. [6] The paper industry grew using the river's power from circa 1800. [6]
Petsel's food service team is migrating from the Iowa River Power Restaurant, which closed in 2023 after a dispute between the Petsels and the building owner. The former staff of a cherished local ...