New Haven Harbor is an inlet on the north side of Long Island Sound in the state of Connecticut in the United States. The city of New Haven sits on its western side.
Geologically the inlet is a fjord carved by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.
The harbor is protected from Long Island Sound by a peninsula from its western side, once known as "Little Necke" but now called Lighthouse Point, because of the lighthouse that was constructed on its tip in 1805. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1845 by the current structure, called the New Haven Harbor Lighthouse.
In July 1779, the peninsula was the scene of an amphibious landing by British troops
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The New Haven Harbor Lighthouse (http://www.ais.org/~lsa/ct09.html)
NewHaven is generally considered to be halfway between the greater New York metropolitan area and the greater New England 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.
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.
NewHavenHarbor is an inlet on the north side of Long Island Sound in the state of Connecticut in the United States.
The harbor is protected from Long Island Sound by a peninsula from its western side, once known as "Little Necke" but now called Lighthouse Point, because of the lighthouse that was constructed on its tip in 1805.
The original lighthouse was replaced in 1845 by the current structure, called the NewHavenHarbor Lighthouse.
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