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Location of New Haven County in Connecticut. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut.It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
Route 162 was created in the 1932 state highway renumbering as a five-mile (8 km) road from Route 1 near the Orange-West Haven line to the junction between Jones Hill Road and Ocean Avenue near the Milford-West Haven line. [2] The portion in Milford was originally numbered as part of Route 122. This segment was removed from Route 122 and ...
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 ...
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 ...
West Haven has 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of publicly accessible beaches, which is one-quarter of the publicly accessible beaches in Connecticut. The hilly Allingtown district of the city is home to the University of New Haven. West Haven is located in the south-central portion of Connecticut's 3rd congressional district.
The first West Haven station, at Washington Avenue, opened along with the rest of the New York and New Haven Railroad on December 25, 1848. The wood-framed building, located on the south (eastbound) side of the tracks, was moved west halfway to Campbell Avenue in 1895 when the line was quadruple-tracked. [7]
Route 161 begins as Pennsylvania Avenue at an intersection with Route 156 in the village of Niantic in East Lyme. It proceeds north for 1.1 miles (1.8 km), curving left then turning right onto Flanders Road. Route 161 continues north for another 1.8 miles (2.9 km) until it reaches the interchange with I-95 (at exit 74).
On the west corner of Church Street across from the green are two 19th-century wood-frame houses. The rest of the block is taken up by the Christ Episcopal Church and its associated structures and sites. [3] The West Haven Green Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2000. In addition to the green ...