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The Congregational meeting house was the site for all town records, government, events, and housed the first public library in the state of Connecticut. [3] In 1719, the hamlet separated from the Orange parish as West Haven. In 1779 the British attacked New Haven Harbor and came ashore in West Haven.
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.
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 ...
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 Ward-Heitman House is located north of the center of West Haven, occupying 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) on the north side of Elm Street between Campbell Avenue and Ward Place. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story timber-frame structure, with a heavy post-and-beam frame finished in wooden clapboards and covered by a gabled roof. It has a three-bay front facade ...
The Old West Haven High School is a historic former school building at 278 Main Street in West Haven, Connecticut.Built in 1926 during a period of rapid population growth, it served the city as a high school and then junior high school until 1983.
The eye of the "Long Island Express" hurricane passed just west of New Haven and devastated the Connecticut shoreline between Old Saybrook and Stonington, which lacked the partial protection from the full force of wind and waves provided to the western coast by the barrier of Long Island, New York. The hurricane caused extensive damage to ...
We’re rapidly approaching the new year, pandas, and for most of us, this is a time to look forward. In January, I’m going to start journaling every day, stop ordering takeout and make sure ...