Everything about New Haven Harbor totally explained
New Haven Harbor is an inlet on the north side of
Long Island Sound in the state of
Connecticut in the
United States. The harbor area is an inlet carved by the retreat of the glaciers during the last
ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.
The city of
New Haven and its neighborhoods of
City Point,
Long Wharf,
The Annex, and
East Shore
lie on the northern and eastern sides.
West Haven is on the west. The
Quinnipiac and
Mill rivers converge and empty into the inlet on its north end. The
Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge crosses here. The
West River empties into the western end of the harbor (also known as West Haven Harbor).
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
Five Mile Point Lighthouse. This lighthouse was replaced for navigation in 1877 by the offshore
Southwest Ledge Light. Sperry Lighthouse (1899-1933) also served the harbor.
In July
1779, during the
American Revolutionary War, the peninsula was the scene of an amphibious landing by
British troops.
The harbor is circumnavigable via the partially-completed "Harborside Greenway" bicycle and pedestrian trail, which is part of the
East Coast Greenway system.
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