(1) It’s in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield.
(2) Cedar Hill Cemetery is on its lower slopes.
(3) MDC’S Cedar Mountain Reservoir is located here, in Hartford, just at the town line.
(4) The mountain is home to songbirds, coyote, deer, cottontail rabbits, quail, pheasant, raccoon, and more. Bears have been spotted here as well. Wolves were claimed to be seen there in 1899.
(5) A quarry is at the base of the mountain on the Newington/Hartford side. In 1920 the blast from four tons of dynamite could be felt one mile away in Newington Center.
(6) It is one of the few remaining protected open spaces in Newington
(7) There had been plans to convert 1,000 acres into a bird sanctuary in 1916.
(8) After six years, Toll Brothers dropped its attempt to build a luxury home subdivision on an undeveloped portion of Cedar Mountain. They were denied a wetlands permit and eventually backed off.
(9) In 1915, a landowner leased his property for use by the YWCA. They established the “Hill-Top Camp” there, which a member described as “just one big heaven up there on the mountain.”
(10) Picnicking was allowed on private property, and various church and school groups used a grove for this purpose.
(11) Old Cedar Mountain Highway Trail is accessible in Newington, near the animal cemetery behind Connecticut Humane Society
(12) Speaking of the Humane Society, in 1958 a capuchin monkey escaped from there and was thought to have taken up residence on Cedar Mountain
(13) Someone — in a letter to the editor in 1969 — thought that Cedar Mountain, by Cedarcrest Hospital, would have been an ideal spot for a maximum security facility.
