Long Island Sound · CT
New Haven
A planned Puritan town on its harbor, home of Yale and apizza.
- Population
- 134,023 (2020 census)
- Founded
- April 1638
- Yale arrives
- 1716
Then
- 1638
Puritans led by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton sail into the Quinnipiac's harbor. A year later they lay out nine squares around a green, one of the first planned towns in America.
- 1716
The Collegiate School moves here from Old Saybrook. It is renamed Yale College in 1718.
- 1779
On July 5, about 2,600 British and Loyalist troops land and raid the town.
- 1839
The Mende captives who seized the slave ship Amistad are tried in New Haven's federal court.
- 1925
Frank Pepe's opens and serves the first New Haven-style “apizza.”
Now
New Haven Harbor opens onto Long Island Sound. This stretch also includes Bridgeport, Black Rock Harbor and Milford's Gulf Beach to the west.
11 tide stations around New Haven
- New Haven Harbor, New Haven Reach2.0 mi
- Lighthouse Point, New Haven Harbor4.1 mi
- Shelton7.5 mi
- Long Hill8.6 mi
- Milford Harbor9.1 mi
- Gulf Beach9.3 mi
- Stratford, I-95 bridge12.0 mi
- Sniffens Point12.8 mi
- Southport, Southport Harbor22.1 mi
- Port Jefferson Harbor entrance24.8 mi
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- Saugatuck, Saugatuck River26.3 mi