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North Haven, Connecticut, USA

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In 1790 people in North Haven were out-numbered by sheep, 1,620 to 1,236.

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  • 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."

    wikipedia.org

  • 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.

    connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ north-haven/

  • 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.

    wikipedia.org

  • 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 Wallingford, on the east by Wallingford, Branford and East-Haven, on the south by East-Haven, and on the west by Hamden. Mean length from north to south, 6 m...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 Island Sound.
    North Haven: No Sleeping Giant npaper-wehaa.com/ nhliving/ 2013

  • 1839 - North Haven
    North Haven, Connecticut
    New Haven county. North Haven was taken from New Haven in 1786. The town lies on both sides of the Wallingford, or Quinnipiac river, and comprises the valley and a part of the bordering hills. The valley is partly rich intervale land, and more extensively sand; covered with...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 Haven. It contains 3 or 4 churches, an academy, and several stores. Population of the township, 1825.
    A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

  • 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

  • News 1856 - A North Haven correspondent of the Courrier, says that "a democrat and member of the church," in North Haven, was actually "seen" to distribute political documents on Sunday noon!
    He probably "belongs to a church" where politics are preached on the Sabbath, and took this method of balancing the account. In this city, the Fremonters have an agent out who calls at the houses on Sunday, to see how people are going to vote. We are authorized to pronounce the write a base liar.
    Columbian Register
    New Haven, Connecticut
    October 11, 1856

  • News 1879 - North Haven Sabbath School Picnic
    The North Haven Congregational church and Sunday school will have one of their old fashioned picnics on Thrusday of this week at High Rock grove, weather favoring. Arrangements have been made with the different railroads whereby cars will be run from the North Haven station direct to the grove witho...Read MORE...


  • News 1882 - North Haven Brick
    North Haevn brick are very scarce at present, in fact none can be had at any price. There will be alarge supply soon. The price will probably be $10 a thousand for those first made, but it will drop to $9.50 and $9. Probably it will not go much lower this season. North Haven yards will turn out a gr...Read MORE...


  • 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

  • News 1886 - Pickpockets at North Haven
    Now that the great centennial celebration is over, North Haven people are finding out that they had their pockets picked. Nine empty pocketbooks have been found in the cemetery. Four of the wallets belonged to George C. Linsley of North Branford, N. W. Potwin of Fair Haven, William B. Hall of Wallli...Read MORE...


  • News 1890 - A HORRIBLE SPECTACLE. The Man Killed at North Haven. Portions of the Body Found Seeral Feet From the Scene of the Fatality - The Head in One Place, The Trunk in Another and the Limbs in a Third Spot.
    No more ghastly sight was evern seen in North Haven than that which was viewed there to-day by railroad men, doctors and a few citizens. Lying near the railroad bridge in the center of town was the trunk of a man's body. The man's head was some distance from the trunk. The face was severed from the ...Read MORE...


  • 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, 6 miles N. by E. of New Haven. It has 3 churches, and manufactures of brooms, farming-implements, coffins, and bricks. Pop. of the township, 1771.
    Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

  • News 1896 - EIGHT RIDERS ARRESTED. Wheelmen Compelled to Observe the Sidewalk Law in North Haven. LEFT THEIR WATCHES AS SECURITY. Two Cyclists From This City, Three From Hartford and Three From Meriden Taken Into Custoday Sunday
    A Claim That the Notice Was Not Posted in a Conspicuous Place - Trial This Evening.

    The town bicycle law for riding on the sidewalks was, for the first time enforced yesterday in North Haven. Eight wheelmen were arrested in front of the Town Hall and their trial will take place before Justice of ...Read MORE...


  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Washington Avenue, North Haven, Conn.
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  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Memorial Hall
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  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Shady Corner, Public Green, North Haven, Conn.
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  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    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 R., 6 miles N. by E. of New Haven. It has manufactures of bricks, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2164.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    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. Ezra Stiles, who was president of Yale College. He received his education at the famous Cheshire Academy and when eighteen years of age began to learn the brickmakers’ business in his father’s plant. Senator Stiles is now president and treasurer of... Read MORE...

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  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Stile's Brick Yard, North Haven, Conn.
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  • News 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 Hartford Railroad, occurred here this morning when the Bar Harbor express, crowded with passengers returning from the best summer resorts in New Engl...Read MORE...


  • 1919 - (North Haven, CT) - O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc., a shotgun manufacturer founded in 1919.

    North Haven: No Sleeping Giant npaper-wehaa.com/ nhliving/ 2013/ 12

  • The North Haven Fair was established in 1942.


  • North Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Town Hall, North Haven, Conn.
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Shady Corner, Public Green, North Haven, Conn.

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Cong. Church, North Haven, Conn.

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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. Ezra Stiles, who was president of Yale College. He received his education at the famous Cheshire Academy and when eighteen years of age began to learn the brickmakers’ business in his father’s plant. Senator Stiles is now president and treasurer of... Read MORE...

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  • 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."

    wikipedia.org

    Read more about James PIERPONT photo of ancestor
  • 1722 - First meetinghouse built on Green in North Haven

    wikipedia.org
  • Incorporated in 1786, the town of North Haven was originally part of New Haven.

    connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ north-haven/
  • 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.

    wikipedia.org
  • 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 Wallingford, on the east by Wallingford, Branford and East-Haven, on the south by East-Haven, and on the west by Hamden. Mean length from north to south, 6... 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 Island Sound.
    North Haven: No Sleeping Giant npaper-wehaa.com/ nhliving/ 2013
  • 1839 - North Haven
    North Haven, Connecticut
    New Haven county. North Haven was taken from New Haven in 1786. The town lies on both sides of the Wallingford, or Quinnipiac river, and comprises the valley and a part of the bordering hills. The valley is partly rich intervale land, and more extensively sand; covered... 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
  • 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 Haven. It contains 3 or 4 churches, an academy, and several stores. Population of the township, 1825.
    A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  • News  1856 - A North Haven correspondent of the Courrier, says that "a democrat and member of the church," in North Haven, was actually "seen" to distribute political documents on Sunday noon!
    He probably "belongs to a church" where politics are preached on the Sabbath, and took this method of balancing the account. In this city, the Fremonters have an agent out who calls at the houses on Sunday, to see how people are going to vote. We are authorized to pronounce the write a base liar.
    Columbian Register
    New Haven, Connecticut
    October 11, 1856
  • News  1879 - North Haven Sabbath School Picnic
    The North Haven Congregational church and Sunday school will have one of their old fashioned picnics on Thrusday of this week at High Rock grove, weather favoring. Arrangements have been made with the different railroads whereby cars will be run from the North Haven station direct to the grove... Read MORE...

  • News  1882 - North Haven Brick
    North Haevn brick are very scarce at present, in fact none can be had at any price. There will be alarge supply soon. The price will probably be $10 a thousand for those first made, but it will drop to $9.50 and $9. Probably it will not go much lower this season. North Haven yards will turn out a... Read MORE...

  • 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
  • News  1886 - Pickpockets at North Haven
    Now that the great centennial celebration is over, North Haven people are finding out that they had their pockets picked. Nine empty pocketbooks have been found in the cemetery. Four of the wallets belonged to George C. Linsley of North Branford, N. W. Potwin of Fair Haven, William B. Hall of... Read MORE...

  • News  1890 - A HORRIBLE SPECTACLE. The Man Killed at North Haven. Portions of the Body Found Seeral Feet From the Scene of the Fatality - The Head in One Place, The Trunk in Another and the Limbs in a Third Spot.
    No more ghastly sight was evern seen in North Haven than that which was viewed there to-day by railroad men, doctors and a few citizens. Lying near the railroad bridge in the center of town was the trunk of a man's body. The man's head was some distance from the trunk. The face was severed from the ... Read MORE...

  • 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, 6 miles N. by E. of New Haven. It has 3 churches, and manufactures of brooms, farming-implements, coffins, and bricks. Pop. of the township, 1771.
    Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  • News  1896 - EIGHT RIDERS ARRESTED. Wheelmen Compelled to Observe the Sidewalk Law in North Haven. LEFT THEIR WATCHES AS SECURITY. Two Cyclists From This City, Three From Hartford and Three From Meriden Taken Into Custoday Sunday
    A Claim That the Notice Was Not Posted in a Conspicuous Place - Trial This Evening.

    The town bicycle law for riding on the sidewalks was, for the first time enforced yesterday in North Haven. Eight wheelmen were arrested in front of the Town Hall and their trial will take place before Justice of ... Read MORE...

  • 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 R., 6 miles N. by E. of New Haven. It has manufactures of bricks, etc. Pop. of the town in 1900, 2164.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  • News  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 Hartford Railroad, occurred here this morning when the Bar Harbor express, crowded with passengers returning from the best summer resorts in New... Read MORE...

  • 1919 - (North Haven, CT) - O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc., a shotgun manufacturer founded in 1919.

    North Haven: No Sleeping Giant npaper-wehaa.com/ nhliving/ 2013/ 12
  • The North Haven Fair was established in 1942.

  • Town of North Haven, CT Featured on Today in America with Terry Bradshaw

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