New Haven County, Connecticut
Abbott, George S., Building
Academy of Our Lady of Mercy at Lauralton Hall
Acadian House
Ahavas Sholem Synagogue
Allis-Bushnell House
American Mills Web Shop
Andrew, William, House
Andrews, Moses, House
Ansonia Library
Armstrong Rubber Company Building
Armstrong, M. and Company Carriage Factory
Atwater, George, House
Atwater-Linton House
Baldwin, George, House
Baldwin, Timothy, House
Baldwin, Zaccheus, House
Bank Street Historic District
Barker, John, House
Beach, Samuel, House
Beaver Hills Historic District
Benedict-Miller House
Beth El Synagogue
Beth Israel Synagogue
Birmingham Green Historic District
Bishop School
Blackman, Elisha, Building
Blackstone House
Blakeslee, Joseph, House
Bradley, Timothy, House
Branford Center Historic District
Branford Electric Railway Historic District
Branford Point Historic District
Bronson, Aaron, House
Bronson, Josiah, House
Buckingham House
Bullet Hill School
Burgis II, Thomas, House
Canoe Brook Historic District
Castle, Dr. Andrew, House
Center Street Cemetery
Chapel Street Historic District
Charter Oak Firehouse
Chatfield Farmstead
Cheshire Historic District
Chittenden, Russell Henry, House
Christ Church New Haven
Colony Street-West Main Street Historic District
Congregation Mishkan Israel
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Connecticut Hall, Yale University
Cook, John, House
Crawford, George W., Manor
Curtis Memorial Library
Curtiss, Reuben, House
Dana, James Dwight, House
Darling, James Alexis, House
Darling, Thomas, House and Tavern
Depot Street Bridge
Dickerman II, Jonathan, House
Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ
Downtown Seymour Historic District
Downtown Waterbury Historic District
Dudleytown Historic District
Dwight Street Historic District
East Haven Green Historic District
East Haven High School
East Rock Park
Edgerton
Edgewood Park Historic District
Eells-Stow House
Elam Ives House
Eliot, Jared, House
Elton Hotel
Falkner's Island Lighthouse
Farmington Canal Lock
Farmington Canal Lock No. 13
First Congregational Church of Cheshire
First Congregational Church of East Haven
Five Mile Point Lighthouse
Fort Nathan Hale
Fourth District School
Frisbie, Edward, Homestead
Frisbie, Edward, House
Fulton, Lewis, Memorial Park
Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children
Goffe, Solomon, House
Griswold House
Grove Street Cemetery
Guilford Historic Town Center
Hall-Benedict Drug Company Building
Hamden Bank & Trust Building
Hamden High School
Hamden Memorial Town Hall
Hamilton Park
Harrison, Thomas, House
Hibbard, Enoch, House and Grannis, George, House
Hillhouse Avenue Historic District
Hillside Historic District
Hoadley, Isaac, House
Hoadley, John, House
Hoadley, Orrin, House
Home Woolen Company
Hooker, Elizabeth R., House
Hotchkiss, David, House
House at 161 Damascus Road
House at 29 Flat Rock Road
Howard Avenue Historic District
Howd, Eliphalet, House
Howd-Linsley House
Howe, John I., House
Humphreys, Gen. David, House
Hurd, William, House
Hurley Road Historic District
Hyland-Wildman House
Imperial Granum-Joseph Parker Buildings
Ives-Baldwin House
Johnson, Alphonso, House
Johnson, Franklin, House
Jones, Theophilus, House
Kendrick, John, House
Kraus Corset Factory
Laurel Beach Casino
Leete, Pelatiah, House
Lewis, Isaac C., Cottage
Lighthouse Point Carousel
Lincoln Theatre
Madison Green Historic District
Mansfield, Richard, House
Marsh, Othniel C., House
Matthews and Willard Factory
Meeting House Hill Historic District
Meigs-Bishop House
Mendel, Lafayette B., House
Meriden Curtain Fixture Company Factory
Middlebury Center Historic District
Milford Point Hotel
Miller, Henry F., House
Moody, Dr. Mary B., House
Morris Cove Historic District
Morris House
Mory's
Mount Carmel Congregational Church and Parish House
Murray, Jonathan, House
Naugatuck Center Historic District
Nehemiah Royce House
New Haven Armory
New Haven City Hall
New Haven Clock Company Factory
New Haven County Courthouse
New Haven Green Historic District
New Haven Jewish Home for the Aged
New Haven Lawn Club
New Haven Railroad Station
Nicoll, Caroline, House
Ninth Square Historic District
Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry
North Branford Center Historic District
Northford Center
Norton House
Old West Haven High School
Orange Center Historic District
Orange Street Historic District
Osbornedale
Overlook Historic District
Oyster Point Historic District
Palace Theater
Palmer, Hezekiah, House
Palmer, Isaac, House
Parsons, Samuel, House
Pine Orchard Union Chapel
Pines Bridge Historic District
Pinto, William, House
Pistol Factory Dwelling
Pitkin, Elisha, House
Plaster House
Platt, Col. Asa, House
Plymouth Congregational Church
Prospect Green Historic District
Prospect Hill Historic District
Quaker Farms Historic District
Quinnipiac Brewery
Quinnipiac River Historic District
Raynham
Red Bridge
Richardson, Nathaniel, House
Rising Sun Tavern
River Park Historic District
River Street Historic District
Riverside Cemetery
Rogers, John, House
Route 146 Historic District
Russian Village Historic District
Sabbathday House
Salem School
Sanford Road Historic District
Sanford-Humphreys House
Schlaraffia Burg
Seymour High School and Annex
Sheffield Street Bridge
Shelley House
Short Beach Historic District
Simpson, Samuel, House
Sleeping Giant Tower
South Britain Historic District
Southbury Historic District No. 1
Southbury Training School
Southern New England Telephone Company Adminstrative Building
Southwest District School
Southwest Ledge Lighthouse
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Stapleton Building
State Park Supply Yard
Sterling Opera House
Stick Style House at Stony Creek
Stone, Medad, Tavern
Stony Creek-Thimble Islands Historic District
Stratford Shoal Lighthouse
Strouse, Adler Company Corset Factory
Swain-Harrison House
Taylor Memorial Library
Todd, Orrin, House
Tranquility Farm
Trowbridge Square Historic District
Tunxis Hose Firehouse
Tuttle, Bronson B., House
Tyler, John, House
Tyler, Solomon, House
Union School
United States Post Office and Court House
Upper Main Street Historic District
Upper State Street Historic District
US Post Office-Ansonia Main
US Post Office-Meriden Main
US Post Office-Milford Main
US Post Office-Naugatuck Main
Wallingford Center Historic District
Wallingford Railroad Station
Ward-Heitman House
Washington Avenue Bridge
Washington Bridge
Waterbury Brass Mill
Waterbury Clock Company
Waterbury Municipal Center Complex
Waterbury Union Station
Webster School
Welch Training School
West Haven Green Historic District
Westville Village Historic District
Westville Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Wheeler, Adin, House and Theodore F. Wheeler Wheelwright Shop
Wheeler-Beecher House
Whitfield, Henry, House
Whitfield, Henry, House
Whitney Avenue Historic District
Whitney, Eli, Gun Factory
Whitneyville Congregational Church
Wilby High School
Williams, Warham, House
Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District
Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Wolcott Green Historic District
Wood, Harcourt, Memorial Library
Woodbridge Green Historic District
Wooster Square Historic District
Yale Bowl
11th Ward Veteran's Memorial
1st Battalion 102d Infantry Memorial
201st Anniversary of the Marine Corps
32nd Ward World War I Memorial
9th Regt. Conn. Vol. Memorial
A Connecticut Minutemans Homestead
A Quinnipiac Indian
A. Frederick Oberlin Bridge
Abraham Lincoln
Adjutant William Campbell
Allingtown World War I Monument
American Legion Post No 17 World War II Memorial
American Liberty Elm
Amos Beebe Eaton
Ancient Burial Ground
Andrew Leete Home Site
Anna Sewell Memorial Fountain
Ansonia
Ansonia Veterans Memorial
Ansonia Veterans Monument
Ansonia Volunteer Firemens Monument
Arctic Engine Co. No. 1
Beacon Falls
Beacon Falls Veterans Monument
Beacon Hill
Benjamin Eli Smith
Benjamin Silliman
Bethany
Bethany Veterans Monument
Bethany Veterans Wall Of Honor
Birmingham Iron Foundry Veterans Memorial
Birthplace of David Humphreys
Bissel's Store, Middlebury Station
Black Rock Fort
Bradley Point Park
Branford
Branford Soldiers Monument
Branford Veterans Memorial
British Landing Site
Bronze Bell
Brotherhood of Ferndocs
Bullet Hill School
Campanile and Carillon
Captain Frederick Lee
Castle Craig
Center Congregational Church
Charter Oak Seedling
Cheshire
Cheshire Civil War Monument
Cheshire Revolutionary War Monument
Cheshire World War I Monument
City of Meriden's World War I Roll of Honor
Col Edward Whalley
Col William Goffe
Col. Decius Wadsworth
Combat Wounded Veterans
Connecticut Hall
Connecticut Police Memorial
Connecticut Volunteers Memorial
Cornelius S. Bushnell Memorial
Corporal Timothy Francis Ahearn
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed
Count Casimir Pulaski
Cristoforo Colombo
Cristoforo Colombo
David Humphreys
Dedicated to the Memory of the Unknown Dead
Defenders' Monument
Dei Gratia
deLauzun Encampment
Derby
Derby and Huntington Civil War Memorial
Derby Firemens Memorial
Derby Korea Vietnam Memorial
Derby Veterans Monument
Dianne Bullis Snyder Memorial
Early Post Office Site
East Haven
East Haven Charter Day
East Haven Veterans Memorial
East Haven Veterans Monument
East Haven World War II Memorial
East Haven World War Memorial
East Shore Park
Edward Robinson Smith
Eells - Stow House
Eli Smith
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Armory
Elm Street School Veterans Memorial
Enoch Hibbard House
Fallen Men Of The Civil War
First Avenue Honor Roll
First Baptist Church
First Church Of Cheshire
First Masonic Lodge in Meriden
First Meeting House
First Settlement of Waterbury
Fort Nathan Hale
Fort Wooster Park
Fortified House Of Ensign Stanley
Founders of Wallingford
Frederick W. Lee, Esq
George Trevor
George W. Baird
Glenn Miller
Gold Star Association Memorial
Great War For Democracy Memorial
Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery Veterans Memorial
Guilford
Guilford Granite
Guilford Korean War Monument
Guilford Revolutionary War Memorial
Guilford Soldier's Monument
Guilford Spanish-American War Monument
Guilford Vietnam Memorial
Guilford World War I Monument
Guilford World War II Monument
Hamden
Hamden Veterans Memorial
Hamilton Park
Harrub Pilgrim Memorial
Hezekiah Augur
Hillhouse Avenue Bridge
Holocaust Memorial Place
Home Site of Jonathan Law
Home Site of Robert Treat
Hon. Abraham Doolittle
How Can I Help the Sound?
Hubbard Park
In Honor of Captain Nathan Hale
In Memory of Augustus Canfield Ledyard
In Memory of George Pardee
In Memory of Our Classmates
In Memory of the Men of Yale
In Memory of Warren J. Carver
In Remembrance
Isaac Allerton
Ithiel Town
James Madison Memorial
Jedidiah Morse
Jefferson Bridge
Jehudi Ashmun
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gamble Kirkwood
John Lyman Chatfield
John Prince Elton
Judges Cave
Julius and Augusta Bronson Farm
Kenea Soldiers Monument
Kings Bridge
Knight Hospital Monument
Lake Quassapaug Station
Landing Site
Lee's Academy
Liberty Rock
Liberty Victory House
Lock 12
Lyman Hall
Madison
Marquis de Lafayette Encampment
Memorial Playground
Memorial to Three Milford Men
Memorial To Two French Soldiers
Memorial to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Veterans
Meriden / Lexington Alarm
Meriden Korea Vietnam Memorial
Meriden Soldiers Memorial
Meriden Spanish American War Memorial
Meriden World War I Memorial
Meridens Traffic Tower
Middlebury
Middlebury Blacksmith Shop
Middlebury Veterans Memorial
Milestone
Milford
Milford Korea - Vietnam Monument
Milford Memorial Flag Pole
Milford Memorial Stone Bridge
Milford Remembers
Milford Town Halls
Milford Volunteer Fire Department
Milford World War I Memorial
Milford World War II Memorial
Monument to the Citizens of Madison
Mr. Richard Perry Home Site
Nathan Hale
Nathan Smith
Nathaniel Elliot Home
Nathaniel William Taylor
Naugatuck
Naugatuck Great War Memorial
Naugatuck Soldiers' Memorial
Naugatuck Veterans Monument
Near This Spot
Nehemiah Royce House
New Haven
New Haven Area Korean War Monument
New Haven Area Vietnam War Memorial
New Haven Common Burial Ground
New Haven Green
New Haven Memorial Flagpole
New Haven MIA POW KIA Memorial
New Haven Water Company
Noah Lane Farnham
Noah Webster House
North Branford
North Branford Soldiers Monument
North Branford Vietnam Monument
North Branford World War I Monument
North Branford World War II Memorial
North Branford World War II Monument
North Haven
North Haven 300th Anniversary
North Haven Korean War Monument
North Haven Soldiers Monument
North Haven Veterans Monument
North Haven Vietnam War Monument
North Haven World War II Monument
Northford Veterans Monument
Old Stone Meeting House
Orange
Orange Veterans Monument
Othniel Charles Marsh
Our Hero Dead World War II
Oxford
Oxford World War I Monument
Painter Park World War II Memorial
Pardee Rose Garden
Patriots of Madison
Patriots of New Haven Memorial
Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge
Pelatiah Perit
Peter Pond
Pierpont Edwards
Pork Hollow
POW / MIA Soldiers from Waterbury
Present Settlement of Waterbury
Prisoners of the American Revolution
Prospect
Prospect Soldiers' Monument
Quinnipiack
Red Bridge
Renovation of the New Haven Green
Reverend Michael Joseph McGivney
Revolutionary War Tercentennial Memorial
Robert Gardner Anderson Award
Robert Newman's Barn
Robert Wallace
Rochambeau Route 1781 82
Rochambeau Route 1781-82
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Roger Sherman Homesite
Roll of Honor
Ross Granville Harrison
Rubber Glove Employees World War I Memorial
Rubber Shoe Employees World War I Memorial
Russian Village
Sacred to the Memory
Seymour
Seymour Korean War Memorial
Seymour Revolutionary War Memorial
Seymour School Bell
Seymour Soldiers Monument
Seymour Veterans Monument
Seymour Vietnam War Memorial
Seymour World War I World War II Memorial
Simeon Baldwin
Simeon E. Baldwin
Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine
Site of the First Meeting House
Site of the Theodore Roosevelt Oak
So Who Lives Here, Anyway?
Society of The Cincinnati Memorial
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Soldiers Monument
Soldiers' Memorial
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
SOS - Save Our Shore
South Britain Congregational Church
Southbury
Southbury Veterans Memorial
Southbury World War I Memorial
Southbury World War II Memorial
SSg Thomas E. Vitagliano
St. James Church
St. Stanislaus Servicemen
Stephen Goodyear
The Butterfly Garden at Lighthouse Point Park
The Cemetery on Burying Ground Hill
The Connecticut Twenty-Ninth Colored Regiment, C. V. Infantry
The Falls
The First Meeting House
The Freedom Tree
The Korean War
The Lone Sailor
The Medal of Honor Plaza and Living Classroom
The Middlebury Fire House
The Navy Cross
The Oyster Industry in New Haven
The Parade Ground
The Patriots
The Regicides
The Trolley
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theophilus Eaton
They Did Not Come Home
Thomas Nash
Town of Cheshire Memorial Plaza
U.S.S. Maine Memorial
UNICO National
United States Rubber Employees World War I Memorial
Veterans Walk Of Honor
VFW Bedworth Post 2871 Monument
VFW Post 1684 Memorial
W.O. Michael Aaron Kight
Wallingford
Wallingford Korean War Monument
Wallingford Revolutionary War Memorial
Wallingford Soldiers Monument
Wallingford Veterans Memorial Flagpole
Wallingford Vietnam Veterans Monument
Wallingford World War I Monument
Wallingford World War II Honor Roll
Walter Camp
Walter Camp Memorial
Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
Waterbury Soldiers' Monument
Waterbury Veterans Monument
Waterbury Vietnam War Memorial
Waterville Veterans
West Haven
West Haven Revolutionary War Memorial
West Haven Twilight League 1933
West Haven Vietnam Veterans Memorial
West Haven World War I Monument
Westville Soldiers' Memorial
Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River
William A. Soderman
Winged Migration
Wolcott Veterans Monument
Wolcotts Pride
Woodbridge
Woodbridge Veterans Monument
World War I Memorial
World War I Memorial
World War I Veterans Memorial Park
World War II Roll of Honor
Ye Ancient Common
"Stepping Stone"
Make Us Free
During the colonial period, New Haven County played a significant role in the development of the Connecticut Colony. The settlement grew rapidly and became a major center of trade and commerce. In 1701, the city of New Haven was officially chartered as a separate municipality, and Yale College, now known as Yale University, was founded in 1701. The college became a prestigious institution and helped solidify New Haven County's reputation as an intellectual and cultural hub.
New Haven County was also a prominent player in the American Revolutionary War. The region was heavily involved in the resistance against British rule, with notable figures like Benedict Arnold and Nathan Hale hailing from the area. The Battle of New Haven in 1779 saw British forces invade the city, but thanks to the local militia's resistance, the British troops were eventually repelled.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, New Haven County thrived as an industrial center, particularly in manufacturing. The region was known for its production of firearms, clocks, and rubber goods. The city of New Haven saw significant growth and urban development during this period, attracting immigrants from all over the world, especially from Italy and Ireland. Today, New Haven County remains an important part of Connecticut's history, with its architectural landmarks, cultural institutions, and vibrant communities.
Brief timeline of the history of New Haven County, Connecticut:
- 1638: The New Haven Colony was founded by English Puritans
- 1644: New Haven Colony becomes a part of the Connecticut Colony
- 1662: Connecticut Colony receives a Royal Charter, formalizing its existence
- 1722: New Haven County is established from the southwestern part of the Connecticut Colony
- 1764: The city of New Haven is incorporated
- 1885: The city of Waterbury is incorporated
- 1893: Hamden is incorporated as a town
- 1920: New Haven County experiences significant industrial growth
- 1954: Construction of the Connecticut Turnpike begins
- 1958: Yale University and the city of New Haven engage in urban renewal projects
- 1975: The Connecticut Post Mall opens in Milford
- 1990: The Peabody Museum of Natural History relocates to a new building at Yale
- 2005: New Haven celebrates the 350th anniversary of its founding
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of New Haven County, Connecticut.