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Before New Haven was colonized in 1638 by five hundred settlers following Reverend John Davenport from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Dutch trader Adriaen Block noted the high mounds of oyster shells along the shoreline while exploring in 1614. [1] Settled in 1648, West Haven (then known as West Farms) was a part of the original New Haven Colony ...
Route 158 was also established in 1932 and ran along Campbell Avenue and Forest Road from West Haven center (Campbell Avenue and Main Street) to Westville (Forest Road and Fountain Street). In 1950, the Route 158 designation was removed and the portion north of First Avenue was added as a northward extension of Route 122.
West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, located on the coast of Long Island Sound. The city is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region . At the 2020 census , the population of the city was 55,584.
West Haven: New Haven: South Central: 55,584 1961 1961 Winsted: Litchfield: Northwest Hills: 7,712 (2010 population) 1917 1915 Former cities. Former city County
Westville is located in the western part of the city west of the West River.The official neighborhood planning area for Westville is defined to be the area bordered by the neighboring town of Woodbridge, Connecticut on the west (the border runs roughly along the Wilbur Cross Parkway), by the Amity neighborhood on the north (along Fountain Street), by the West Rock neighborhood on the northeast ...
Estes grew up in West Haven, which she called Cranbury in her novels. [14] Savin Park also is the setting for chapter 4 of Stephen King's novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats", which appears in the 1999 collection "Hearts in Atlantis," and is mentioned in his short story "The Boogeyman." [15] It is also mentioned in Leigh Bardugo's 2019 novel Ninth ...
The four-lane section in Derby, Orange, and West Haven was opened in 1940. In the 1940s, Route 34 ended at Sherman Avenue (former US 5 and Route 10 ). The Oak Street Connector appeared in state highway plans in the mid-1950s and the present freeway opened in 1960.
It encompasses parts of West Haven and has been represented by Democrat William Heffernan III since 2024. [1] Members. Democrat Dorinda Keenan Borer since 2017. [2]