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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.
Map of municipalities by per capita income (ACS 2015-2019). ... New Haven South Central CT $27,625 $53,873 $65,450 ... West Haven: City New Haven South Central CT ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The West River is a 13.5-mile-long (21.7 km) [1] freshwater stream in southern Connecticut. It flows through the towns of Bethany, Woodbridge, New Haven, and West Haven before discharging into New Haven Harbor. Within the city of New Haven, the river is surrounded by Edgewood Park and the West River Memorial Park along much of its length. [2]
The Quinnipiac, Pequot, and Mohegan Native American tribes spent summers near the West Haven green and Morse Park, and as far inland as Maltby Lakes.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.