East Haven, Connecticut East Haven, Connecticut Official seal of East Haven, Connecticut East Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, in the United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town populace was 29,257. Located 3 miles (5 km) east of New Haven, it is part of the Greater New Haven area.
East Haven is 35 miles (56 km) from Hartford, 82 miles (132 km) from N.Y.
8.2 East Haven Police Department 8.4 East Haven Fire Department Welcome to East Haven The region now known as East Haven was obtained by Puritan pioneer Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton on November 29, 1638, as part of the purchase of New Haven from Sachem Momauguin of the small-town Quinnipiack tribe.
This was granted on August 5, 1644, and was the last piece of territory that made up the initial town of East Haven.
The initial town boundaries were from the harbor and Quinnipiac River on the west to the Branford and North Branford town line on the east.
East Farms, as it was first called, was considered a church of the New Haven Colony.
Settlers settled into Morris Cove and what is now the "center" of East Haven in 1639.
With Branford and North Branford having had pioneer since 1643, citizens from the New Haven Colony started to settle the Foxon section in 1683.
The Connecticut Colony granted the town petition for Township in May 1707 and colonists changed the name from Iron Works Village to East Haven.
Some outstanding territory issues with New Haven and a minor feud with Governor Gurdon Saltonstall resulted in the rescinding of the township status; the region was made a church of New Haven. In 1706 the first enhance school building was assembled in East Haven, followed by the appointment of a School Committee in 1707.
Jacob Hemingway, one of the first Yale students, served as the first pastor (1704 1754) of the Congregational church in East Haven.
In January 1772 the Society of East Haven authorized the cost of $1,000 to build a new 65-by-50-foot (20 by 15 m) meeting home.
The British attacked New Haven and East Haven.
During the Revolution, East Haven lost 16 men.
East Haven became an incorporated town of the new republic in May 1785.
Civil War cannon from Fort Hale, installed on the East Haven Green East Haven lost 15 men amid the war.
East Haven's border was the Quinnipiac River, and the town was in charge of four bridges that crossed it.
Combined with requests for additional town services, the Board of Selectman voted to sell Fair Haven, Granniss Corners, and Morris Cove to New Haven.
After a enhance vote, in which East Haven inhabitants voted 123 to sell and 9 against, it ceded those three sections to New Haven.
The lake, which borders the suburbs of East Haven and Branford, was sold in 1895 to the New Haven Water Company.
The new East Haven continued to grow.
Policing East Haven was handled by New Haven sheriffs until 1900 or so when the town hired Jim Smith to be the town's first constable.
This encompassed the East Haven Fire Department and the newly organized East Haven Police Department.
In 1898 gas lights were installed in East Haven.
The East Haven Library was established in 1909.
With an increase in population, especially Catholic immigrants and descendants of Irish and Italian ancestry, the first Roman Catholic church opened in East Haven in 1916.
Five East Haven men died while serving in World War I.
The next month, on September 22, 1928, the new East Haven Library was opened and dedicated.
During World War II many men from East Haven served overseas.
After World War II, East Haven benefited from suburbanization, as families followed newly constructed highways and moved out of the older, dense metros/cities into less settled areas.
The populace of East Haven nearly doubled from the end of the war to 1960.
Wolcheski, USMC, was the only East Haven man killed.
The downtown region was redeveloped in the 1970s with assembly of the East Haven Mall to compete with suburban malls.
The new East Haven Police command posts was rather than in 1973.
New Haven and neighboring suburbs such as East Haven have been destinations for a new wave of immigrants since the late 20th century, the majority of whom in East Haven are Latinos from Ecuador. In the 2010 census, Hispanics and Latinos made up more than 10% of the town's population.
On March 16, 2009, the town came to an agreement with neighboring New Haven over the future of Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, which straddles the boundary between the two municipalities.
On August 9, 2013, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690 - B crashed on approach, hitting two homes in an East Haven residentiary neighborhood near the airport.
East Haven also contains Stony Island, approximately 660 yards (600 m) from East Haven Town Beach in Long Island Sound. The shape of East Haven on a map is taller than it is wide.
It is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New Haven, on the north by North Haven, and on the east by Branford, Lake Saltonstall, and North Branford.
East Haven shares with New Haven the territory belonging to small-town Tweed New Haven Airport and Alling Memorial Golf Course.
East Haven was positioned in the middle of this collision, and the results can be seen today with the schists, gneisses and granites which are exposed. 22,000 years ago, the glacier moved south, eroding mountain peaks and pushing through East Haven to deposit large amounts of glacial till to form Long Island.
The region surrounding Farms River and Lake Saltonstall on the East Haven and Branford border is an example of this.
Deposits of basalt (lava flow) can be found in the north and northeast sections of East Haven.
When Pangaea was broken up, East Haven had forests.
Pheasants, grouse, ducks and wild turkeys can be found in East Haven, as well as cardinals, blue jays, warblers, crows, sparrows, parrots, woodpeckers and sea gulls.
The region borders Branford and North Branford on the east, New Haven on the west to about Grannis Pond in the south, and surrounds State Route 80.
The region is positioned in the southern section of East Haven, from the Caroline Creek section of East Haven on the west to Branford on the east and starting at Short Beach Road in the north.
The region near Tweed New Haven Airport has an industrialized park that includes Town Fair Tire Centers Headquarters and Calabro Cheese Corporation.
Landmarks include the Town Hall, Fire Department Headquarters, Hagaman Memorial Library, the "old" East Haven High School, and other administrative buildings.
The old high school has been adapted for use by the East Haven Historical Society, and a teen center.
The most recognizable landmark in East Haven is the Old Stone Church.
The Town Green is a 2.4-acre (9,700 m2) park positioned at the easterly end of the central company precinct (two blocks east of the town hall) and is mostly veiled by trees.
The Green is the site of the annual East Haven Fall Festival and summer concerts.
Margaret Tucker Park is considered the second East Haven Green, with its locale across the street from Town Hall and the Old Stone Church.
East Haven's climate is tempered by its locale on Long Island Sound; it has a continental climate which is common in New England.
In a normal winter East Haven averages 27 inches (68.58 cm) of snowfall.
It is not unusual to have a dusting of snow by the coast and an inch of snow flurry in the northern areas of East Haven.
East Haven appreciates a fairly long burgeoning season with the last frost occurring in mid April and the first frost occurring in mid October.
On average, East Haven has 207 sunny days and 158 cloud or rainy days.
Severe weather does occur in East Haven.
The region has been hit by a several hurricanes, most recently in August 2011 when Hurricane Irene severely damaged various shore areas, destroying homes along Cosey Beach. In 1985, the eye of Hurricane Gloria came athwart state 22 west of East Haven.
There are 15,925 registered voters in East Haven.
Quinnipiac River in East Haven, 1907]] According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 39.9 square miles (103.3 km ), of which 39.0 square miles (101.1 km ) is territory and 0.9 square miles (2.2 km ), or 2.16%, is water.
The town of East Haven sits astride the Quinnipiac River in southeastern New Haven County.
It is 5 miles (8 km) south of Northford and about 13 miles (21 km) north of New Haven.
Towns bordering East Haven are Durham, Branford, Meriden, Middlefield, North Branford and North Haven.
East Haven has an unemployment rate of 9.7%.
There are 527 work units in East Haven, employing 6,260 staff members. East Haven Town Hall Messina was propel as the first mayor of East Haven, having been the incumbent first selectman.
She was the first female mayor of East Haven and the youngest at age 32. She was re-elected in 2009, serving for two terms.
Mayors of East Haven East Haven Police Department The East Haven Police Department employs over 50 uniformed officers.
In 1997, an East Haven police officer, Sergeant Robert Flodquist, was accused of using excessive force in a police action which killed Malik Jones, an black suspect.
The East Haven town/city attorney said the town intended to appeal this decision. Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating the East Haven Police for ethnic profiling and harassment of Latinos following the "unwarranted arrest" of Father Paul Manship, a Catholic priest who was trying to study complaints by Latino churchioners that they were victims of police discrimination. That year the police arrested Mayor April Capone Almon and her assistant for allegedly interfering with a ticketing action at the beach.
Several other East Haven officers attended the arraignment to show support.
Murders 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 East Haven Fire Department The East Haven Fire Department was established in 1900.
Retail services dominate three stretches of roads in East Haven; Main Street and U.S.
East Haven has two industrialized parks on territory adjoining to Tweed New Haven Airport which home many manufacturing and distribution companies.
There are approximately 527 companies that employ 6,260 employees in East Haven.
East Haven Grand List (2008) was $2,968,044,077.00.
East Haven Labor Force (those of working age) is 16,751 residents.
Calabro Cheese Corporation, established in 1953, calls East Haven home.
By 1728 East Haven had split their fitness into 4 school districts.
In 2010 there were 3,413 students enrolled in the East Haven Public School system, with 245.90 teachers and a total staff of 520.90.
East Haven Academy enrolls 237 students and 16.10 teachers in Grades 3-8 East Haven High School enrolls 968 students and 70.50 teachers in Grades 9-12 The East Haven Library was established in 1909.
On September 22, 1928, the East Haven Library was opened.
East Haven does not have its own hospital; the region has a several facilities inside 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 km) in New Haven: Yale-New Haven Hospital, a primary teaching hospital affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, and Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.
East Haven is served by Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, which is positioned on the border between East Haven and New Haven.
Although East Haven does not have a train station, there are two stations inside close driving distance.
Union Station is positioned 3 miles (5 km) from the center of town in New Haven, and a commuter station is positioned an equal distance away in Branford.
Both offer commuter barns service to New York and to coastal Connecticut towns, and New Haven's Union Station has Amtrak train service to Boston and many other cities.
Interstate 95 runs from east to west through the central portion of East Haven.
Interstate 91, which is positioned west of the town, joins with State Route 80 which passes through the town in Foxon, running east to west.
Lake Saltonstall, positioned on the border between East Haven and Branford, provides drinking water to the south section of East Haven and is a recreational facility for hiking and fishing.
The New Haven Regional Water Pollution Control Authority is responsible for sewage-disposal services with facilities positioned in New Haven.
East Haven is known for its Italian-American ethnic heritage. The East Haven Courier is the weekly paper.
A small-town ABC partner is in New Haven, WTNH TV Channel 8 and New Haven's Intrigue - TV WTXX TV Channel 34.
East Haven can receive 16 on-air tv channels, 13 AM airways broadcasts, and 20 FM airways broadcasts.
East Haven Historical Society The Shore Line Trolley Museum, just past the East Haven Green, operates the Branford Electric Railway, a National Historic Site.
East Haven has two nationally registered historic sites: East Haven Green Historic District (added April 11, 2002) First Congregational Church of East Haven (added March 25, 1982) Every fifth year the town hosts the Columbus Day Parade (which is shared between New Haven, West Haven, North Haven, and Hamden).
The town of East Haven sponsors a town-wide beach party to jubilate Independence Day.
Henry Winkler, actor and director who played "The Fonz" on the hit show Happy Days, resided in the Momaugin region of East Haven while he attended the Yale School of Drama.
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