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New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 U.S. census, [ 2] New Haven is the third largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport and ...
New Haven Colony. New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of Long Island Sound, with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [ 1] The colony joined Connecticut Colony in 1664. [ 2] The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures.
Interactive map of New Haven County, Connecticut. New Haven Countyis a countyin the south central part of the U.S. stateof Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, the population was 864,835,[1]making it the third-most populous county in Connecticut. Two of the state's five largest cities, New Haven(3rd) and Waterbury(5th), are part of New Haven County.
The New Haven system. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly called the New Haven, dominated Connecticut travel after 1872. New York's leading banker, J. P. Morgan, had grown up in Hartford and had a strong interest in the New England economy. Starting in the 1890s Morgan began financing the major New England railroads, and ...
Connecticut Colony. The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained ...
The New England Confederation was formed in 1643 as a political and military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. [64] Connecticut and New Haven were on land claimed by the United Provinces, but the Dutch were unable to populate or militarily defend their territorial claim and therefore could ...
New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, being settled more than 150 years before the American Revolution. The first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England. A large influx of Puritans populated the New England region ...
University of New Haven. / 41.2919; -72.9622. The University of New Haven ( UNH) is a private university in West Haven, Connecticut. Between its main campus in West Haven and its graduate school campus in Orange, Connecticut, the university grounds cover about 122 acres of land. The university also operates a satellite campus in Prato, Italy.