New Haven (from haven, meaning a harbor or sanctuary) is the name of a number of places, most in the United States of America. The name is most common in the United States due to that nation's colonial roots; any harbor or sanctuary was a "new haven" to European colonists. Haven can mean: A harbor A sanctuary Companies Pizza Haven, an Australian pizza chain Haven (Holidays), a company which runs a number of holiday parks in the United Kingdom and Europe Entertainment Haven (TNG episode), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Haven (film), a 2004 motion picture directed... A harbor (AmE), harbour (CwE) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... Sanctuary has multiple meanings. ...
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Founded in 1638, NewHaven could be considered to be the oldest formally planned community in the United States due to the original grid of four streets by four streets.
NewHaven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise," became the new city's first mayor.
NewHaven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in NewHaven's United States District Court.
NewHaven is generally considered to be halfway between the greater New York metropolitan area and the greater Boston area, and can be said to be culturally split between the influence of the larger cities and its own New England roots.
NewHaven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise," became the new city's first mayor.
As early as 1954, NewHaven was already suffering from an exodus of middle-class workers and the chronic development of "slums." Then-mayor Richard Lee attempted to stem the tide by engaging in one of the earliest major urban renewal projects in the United States.
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