West Haven, Connecticut West Haven, Connecticut West Haven City Hall West Haven City Hall Official seal of West Haven, Connecticut West Haven is a town/city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
Main article: History of West Haven, Connecticut Settled in 1648, West Haven (then known as West Farms) was a part of the initial New Haven Colony.
In 1719, it became the separate church of West Haven, but was still officially a part of New Haven until 1822.
On July 5, 1779, the British invaded New Haven Harbor and came ashore in West Haven and East Haven.
A historical headstone marks Campbell's approximate gravesite and is maintained by the West Haven Historical Society.
While West Haven again attempted to incorporate as its own town in 1784, that attempt failed, primarily due to the protests of neighboring Milford, which opposed North Milford becoming part of the new town.
West Haven and North Milford tried again in 1786 and 1787 with the same result.
In 1921, West Haven split from Orange to turn into a separate town.
The Savin Rock section of West Haven was the site of the Savin Rock Amusement Park, which began in the late 19th century as a regionally famous seaside resort.
The park ran along the west side of the New Haven Harbor beachfront and is today a walk and bike path.
In 1986, West Haven observed the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
During the year-long celebrations, the mayor and council passed various resolutions to encourage improve involvement, including naming the official ship of West Haven the U.S.
West Haven Green Historic District Kite aerial photo overlooking the West Haven shoreline at the Bradley Point and Savin Rock region 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 precinct of the town/city is home to the University of New Haven.
West Haven is positioned in the south-central portion of Connecticut's 3rd congressional district.
The town/city is bound on the southwest by the Oyster River (the boundary between West Haven and Milford since colonial times), northwest by Orange, north by New Haven and northeast by the West River, which divides West Haven and New Haven.
The three momentous neighborhoods in West Haven correspond to the three fire districts.
Coleco (originally Connecticut Leather Company- later the toy/video game manufacturer), and Sikorsky Aircraft, a division of United Technologies, also had operations in West Haven.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals North America, a branch of Bayer AG, based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, had a plant in West Haven, but the business announced in 2006 that it was shutting its operations in the city, affecting about 1,000 workers.
The 137-acre (0.55 km2) former Bayer ground comprises 17 buildings, mostly in West Haven but partly in Orange.
Long a blue-collar and middle-class bedroom improve of New Haven, West Haven has had financial enigma since the 1990s.
West Haven is home to the University of New Haven, a U.S.
The Yale Bowl, the home field of the Yale Bulldogs, is in New Haven, near the West Haven border.
The West Haven High School football team was ranked first in the state and fifth in the country in 1968.
West Haven is also home to Notre Dame High School, which is a Roman Catholic all-boys school.
Route 1 (the Boston Post Road) run through West Haven, between Orange and New Haven.
Route 162, which both begins and ends at Route 1, starts in Orange, passes through West Haven, and ends in Milford.
A north-south state road, Route 122, begins in New Haven, comprising Forest Road, a stretch of Campbell Avenue and First Avenue up to the junction with I-95.
Route 745 begins at that point, turns west at Elm Street and continues into New Haven, ending at Route 10 (Ella T.
West Haven Center is served by the various B routes (main service along Campbell Avenue).
The J routes run along the West Haven shore towards Milford.
In 2010, the Connecticut Department of Transportation began building a new Metro-North station in West Haven, athwart from the former Armstrong factory.
Tweed New Haven Regional Airport is the closest facility offering scheduled air service to West Haven.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): West Haven city, Connecticut".
West Haven Web site "Yale buys West Haven's Bayer campus" by Cara Baruzzi, New Haven Register, 14 June 2007.
"Our New West Haven Station Is Open For Business!".
Web page titled "Miss America - Winter 2003 Newsletter" quotes from an Associated Press story (or, more likely, a picture caption), dated September 14, 1933: "Miss Marian Bergeron, 16-year-old West Haven, Connecticut, girl who won the "Miss America" title in the annual beauty pageant at Atlantic City, New Jersey," accessed March 13, 2007 Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Haven, Connecticut.
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