Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and was initially founded as the Collegiate School in 1701 to train ministers and political leaders.

Westbook Farms started when William Bayard Cutting purchased the George C. Lorillard estate on the Connetiquot River in the Long Island town of Great River. Cutting was a New York City lawyer and sugar beet refiner, who made his fortune in railroads and in the development of the Red Hook, Brooklyn waterfront.