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Fairmont Avenue, in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, across from Ed Lancraft's house and oyster dock. During the 1890s, the railroad built a new line and demolished the shop. After the shop was demolished, Ed Lancraft told the boys they could use one of his oyster sheds for rehearsals.
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Daniel M. English was a world champion rudimental snare drummer who died April 14, 1931, at the age of 28. English was a member of
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Some years later, a building fund was started to build their own clubhouse. The
Lancraft retired members, or Olde Timers, answered the call for funds. Mike English, father of the late Lancraft drummer Dan English, donated the land in back of his home and took a
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At a regular business meeting in 1898, it was voted to hold corps rehearsals on
Thursday evenings and to this day Lancraft still rehearses on Thursday nights at Moriarty Hall. The corps draws its 65 plus members from towns throughout the state of
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Lancraft has won 32 state championships and individual members have won 22 fife, 39 bass drum, and 27 snare drum championships. One of the earliest published accounts of a first-place finish in competition for
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was planned to be built and would take the clubhouse and land. A member of another drum corps, Stony Creek, told a woman of
Lancraft's plight and she offered to sell the corps several acres of land behind her home in North Haven.
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thank Dan in a type-written letter a few weeks later, thus, showing the mutual respect and friendship the two had for each other. That letter and others written to Dan by
Moeller can be found in the Corps' archives.
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Institutes of Music and their respective drum corps, and had many private students.
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The corps membership elects officers at their annual business meeting held the first Thursday in November. The elected officers handle all the day-to-day management duties of the corps and include the offices of
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Lancraft has marched in the Greater New Haven St. Patrick's Day Parade for several decades. In summer, ancient drum corps from around the world travel to two of the oldest musters which are held at
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to represent a Colonial period drum corps at its first ever Prelude to Independence ceremony in 1958. George P. Carroll, who was organizing the
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