History of North Haven, Connecticut, USA

Journey back in time to North Haven, Connecticut, USA

• In his will of 1714, the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven gave 8 acres to his neighbors in the Northeast Parish, as North Haven was called, "provided those neighbors will set their meeting house there and make their training and burying there."
  
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• 1722 - First meetinghouse built on Green in North Haven
  
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• Incorporated in 1786, the town of North Haven was originally part of New Haven.
  
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• 1790 - The first United States census counted 1,236 people in the agricultural community of North Haven in 1790. However, the 1789 Grand List had found 1,620 sheep in North Haven, with the sheep outnumbering the residents.
  
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• 1819 - North Haven
  North-Haven is a township, centrally situated in the county, being 8 miles from New-Haven, and 26 miles from Hartford; bounded on the north by Walling...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• In 1838, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad opened its line
  over the sand plains that had been left by the glaciers along the 45-mile Quinnipiac River that flows from Plainville through North Haven into Long Is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - North Haven
  North Haven, a post-village of New Haven county, Connecticut, on Quinepiack river, and on the Hartford and New Haven railroad, 6 miles N. from New Hav...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - The North Haven Brick Company and Warner, Mansfield & Stiles (also brick makers) founded in North Haven
  
  A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, Volume 1 By Everett Gleason Hill
  
  
• 1884 - The North Haven Memorial Library was established
  
  A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, Volume 1 By Everett Gleason Hill
  
  
• 1895 - North Haven
  North Ha'ven, a post-village in North Haven town ship, New Haven co., Conn., on the Quinepiac River, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Washington Avenue, North Haven, Conn.
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  Memorial Hall
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  Shady Corner, Public Green, North Haven, Conn.
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  Cong. Church, North Haven, Conn.
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• 1906
  North Haven, a post-village in North-Haven township (town), New Haven co., Conn., on the Quinnipiac River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Old Styles Homestead
  
  "Hon. Frank L. Stiles, of North Haven, Republican Senator from the Twelfth District, is the son of Isaac L. and Sophronia M. (Blakeslee) Stiles, and was born at North Haven July 12, 1854. He is a direct descendant of the Rev. ... Read MORE...
  
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  Stile's Brick Yard, North Haven, Conn.
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•  1913 - Bar Harbor Express, Crowded With Home-Coming Excursionsits, Rammed by the White Mountain Flier - At Least 100 Are Injured - Wooden Cars, Pullmans Among Them, Reduced to Kindling Wood
  CRASH OCCURED NEAR NORTH HAVEN, CONN.
  
  North Haven, Conn., Sept. 2. - The most appalling of the many recent accidents on the New York, New Haven and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1919 - (North Haven, CT) - O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc., a shotgun manufacturer founded in 1919.
  
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• The North Haven Fair was established in 1942.
  
  
  
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  Town Hall, North Haven, Conn.
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