Whitneyville is part of the Town of Hamden CT. The Whitneyville Church (Directly across the street) was built in 1834, shortly after that a cemetery was established. The cemetery is fenced and well maintained given its age. Management and maintenance are provided by the Whitneyville Cemetery Association board with records maintained by the Nolan Monument Company in Hamden.

When the Whitneyville Church was built on the east side of town in 1834, a cemetery was established beside it- square, enclosed within a white picket fence, treeless, and lying in the full sun as though forever looking with unobstructed view up into the blue of God's heaven. Members of this congregation in earlier years were buried in Hamden Plains Cemetery. On the Treadwell Street side, some of the old wooden hitching posts with their battered round tops are still standing where the horses of the funeral trains used to be tied.

Outstanding names on the tombstones there are those of Austin Putnam, for nearly fifty years pastor of the church; Dr. Charles Cutting, a later pastor; James J. Webb, who died in 1889, and his father Darius, who died in 1869; and Charles P. Auger, 1836-92, a first selectman of the town.

The most interesting monument is that of the Dickerman family, a tall brown shaft which commemorates their history:

Thomas Dickerman came from England 1635, died in Dorchester, Mass, in 1657. Abraham Dickerman died in New Haven in 1711 aged 77; Isaac Dickerman died in 1758, aged 81; Stephen Dickerman died in 1779 aged 58; Isaac Dickerman died in 1835 aged 75; Deacon Eli Dickerman died in 1869 aged 74; Elias Dickerman 1821- 1905.

The last two of these took an important part in church affairs and in Hamden school matters.

In an old manual of the Whitneyville church appears this paragraph:

"The starred names upon this church manual exceed in numbers its members today- many have passed from this side of the street to the silent congregation over the way. More past members rest in hope there, then live in hope in the church today. Great in numbers, rich in faith, bright in hope, they silently rest there waiting the coming of the master."

- Hartley, R. M. (1943). The hisory of Hamden Connecicit 1786-1936. New Haven, CT: Quinnipiack Press.