Haven Sentence Examples
As thus founded, New Haven was town and colony combined.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway.
The trouble is, my ranch has been a safe haven and even headquarters for the wolf population around here.
It was from Milford Haven that Henry II.
The streams and rivers that run down the mountains are a haven for outdoor sports.
From 1822 until his death in New Haven on the 10th of March 1858 he was Dwight professor of didactic theology at Yale.
Late in the afternoon, as he was resting in the thick woods south of Walden, he heard the voice of the hounds far over toward Fair Haven still pursuing the fox; and on they came, their hounding cry which made all the woods ring sounding nearer and nearer, now from Well Meadow, now from the Baker Farm.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and is primarily a residential suburb of Boston, with which it is connected by electric lines.
In 1815 the Fulton, the first steamboat on Long Island Sound, made its first trip from New York to New Haven.
Ferry boats ply frequently between Pembroke Dock and Neyland on the opposite shore of the Haven.
AdvertisementSalem Harbor is the most considerable other haven on Massachusetts Bay; on Buzzard's.
He died in New Haven on the 12th of May 1795.
Season Four of this reality show still has the Montelongos flipping houses and a portion of the Atlanta Team from Season Three and the New Haven team from the previous season.
One of the most important events in the history of New Haven was the removal hither in October 1716 from Saybrook of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which developed into Yale University.
The period of greatest material prosperity of New Haven in the colonial period began about 1750, when a thriving commerce with other American ports and the West Indies developed.
AdvertisementNew Haven also had extensive shipbuilding interests.
When news of the embargo of the port at Boston arrived at New Haven, a Committee of Correspondence was at once formed; and in the War of Independence the people enthusiastically supported the American cause.
New Haven's commerce suffered severely during the war, but by the close of the first decade of the 19th century it had regained its former importance.
To that conflict New Haven contributed approximately $30,000,000, and 3000 men, 500 of whom were killed.
From 1701 until 1873 New Haven was the joint capital (with Hartford) of Connecticut.
AdvertisementNew Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784; new charters were secured from the General Assembly of the state in 1869, 1881 and 1899.
Fair Haven was annexed to New Haven in 1897.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Albany (New York Central & Hudson River) railways, and by two inter-urban electric lines.
In the 16th century Hartlepool was less prosperous; in 1523 the haven was said to be ruined, the fortifications decayed.
It is a hilly island, with rocky cliffs; North Haven, on the east coast, being almost the only place where landing can be safely effected.
AdvertisementThere are no steam railways, but an electric line connects South Hadley and South Hadley Falls with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Maine railways at Holyoke.
As regards Vincent he himself tells us that only after long and sad experience of worldly turmoil did he betake himself to the haven of a religious life.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad and by interurban electric railways.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Rhode Island Suburban railways, and is connected with the island of Rhode Island by ferry.
The place owes its origin to the decision of the government in 1814 to form a naval depot on Milford Haven.
Pembroke is probably an Anglo-Norman form of the Cymric Penfro, the territory lying between Milford Haven and the Bristol Channel, now known as the Hundred of Castlemartin.
The conveniently situated islands of Tenedos and Lemnos (the latter offering the immense landlocked haven of Mudros as an anchorage) were occupied to serve as naval bases, and on Feb.
It contains a borough of the same name and the villages of Cos Cob, Riverside and Sound Beach, all served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway; the township has steamboat and electric railway connexions with New York City.
The first settlers came from the New Haven Colony in 1640; but the Dutch, on account of the exploration of Long Island Sound by Adrian Blok in 1614, laid claim to Greenwich, and as New Haven did nothing to assist the settlers, they consented to union with New Netherland in 1642.
By a treaty of 1650, which fixed the boundary between New Netherland and the New Haven Colony, the Dutch relinquished their claim to Greenwich, but the inhabitants of the town refused to submit to the New Haven Colony until October 1656.
Six years later Greenwich was one of the first towns of the New Haven Colony to submit to Connecticut.
In1834-1837he edited the newly-established Literary and Theological Review, in which he opposed the "New Haven" theology.
It is served by the Boston & Maine, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways, and by interurban electric railways.
He touched at the haven of Balade (the original name of the island) near the north-western extremity, as did d'Entrecasteaux in 1793, who closely explored the coast and surrounding seas.
The city is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, by interurban electric lines, and by steamboats to New York.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford railway crosses the town and has stations at its villages of Braintree, South Braintree and East Braintree, which are also served by suburban electric railways.
The mission, reduced in numbers by the death of its archaeologist, von Haven, again visited Taiz in June 1763, where after some delay permission was obtained to visit Sana, the capital of the province and the residence of the ruling sovereign or imam.
Watertown is served by the Fitchburg division of the Boston & Maine railway, and is connected with Boston, Cambridge, Newton (immediately adjacent and served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway) and neighbouring towns by electric railways.
In 1867 he determined to make for himself a haven of refuge against the invading Philistine, and bought some land on Blackdown, above Haslemere, then a secluded corner of England; here 1'Ir (afterwards Sir) James Knowles began to build him a house, ultimately named Aldworth.
He was a descendant of one of the founders of the New Haven colony, worked as a boy in an uncle's blacksmith shop and on his farm, and in 1797 graduated from Yale, having studied theology under Timothy Dwight.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by interurban electric railway.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by interurban electric railways.
The city is served by the Boston & Maine, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways, and by an interurban line.
Still more recently the Repsolds have completed a new heliometer for Yale College, New Haven, United States.
In 1733 he had established a press in Charleston, South Carolina, and soon after did the same in Lancaster, Pa., in New Haven, Conn., in New York, in Antigua, in Kingston, Jamaica, and in other places.
It has in Vineyard Haven (Holmes's Hole) a spacious harbour, much frequented by wind-bound vessels seeking a passage round Cape Cod.
The early history was rendered unquiet at times by wars with the Indians, the chief of which were the Pequot War in 1637, and King Philip's War in 16 75-7 6; and for better combining against these enemies, Massachusetts, with Connecticut, New Haven and New Plymouth, formed a confederacy in 1643, considered the prototype of the larger union of the colonies which conducted the War of American Independence (1 7758 3).
Haven (1810-1861), member of Congress from 1851 to 1857, joined them in 1836.
It stands on a bare upland, close to the sea; and below it is Tintagel Haven, or Porth, a small cove surrounded by cliffs of almost black slate.
A little slate is quarried, being taken from the rocks below the church, and exported in the small vessels which can visit Tintagel Haven in calm weather.
It is traversed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by inter-urban electric lines.
The city is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway (which has other stations in the township at Glenbrook, Springdale and Talmadge Hill), by electric railway to Darien, Greenwich, &c., and by two lines of steamboats to New York City and ports on the Sound.
The principal manufactures are builders' hardware, locks and keys (the works of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company are here), woollen goods, dye stuffs, &c. The township of Stamford, known until 1642 by the Indian name of Rippowam, was settled in 1641 by twenty-nine persons who for religious reasons seceded from the Wethersfield church and joined the colony of New Haven.
Discontent with the religious policy of New Haven, however, caused a number of the Stamford citizens to withdraw and to found Hempstead, Long Island, and for the same reason many of the people of Stamford approved of the union of the New Haven colony and Connecticut by the charter of 1662; and in October 1662 Stamford submitted to Connecticut.
In New Haven the same system prevailed from 1639 till 1665.
The borough has a public library (1881), a Masonic Home, the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium of the New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Phelps School (for girls) and the Choate School (1896, for boys).
The township is traversed by the Boston & Maine, and New York, New Haven & Hartford railways.
The family soon removed to West Haven, Vermont, where, all working together, they made a scanty living as day labourers.
After three years more with the family as a day labourer at West Haven, he succeeded, with his father's consent, in being apprenticed in the office of The Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vermont.
The last-named connects with the main line at Ludington, Michigan, by means of a railway ferry across Lake Michigan; the Grand Trunk has a railway ferry from Milwaukee to Grand Haven.
In the United States schools were opened in New York, New Haven and Boston in 1873.
In the United States a similar system prevails in New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Haven and many other large towns.
Because of the union of the towns of the New Haven Jurisdiction with Connecticut, in 1664, and the consequent admission of others than church members to civil rights, these Puritans resolved to remove and found a new town, in which, as originally in the New Haven towns, only church members should have a voice in the government.
Hartford is served by two divisions of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, by the Central New England railway, by the several electric lines of the Connecticut Company which radiate to the surrounding towns, and by the steamboats of the Hartford & New York Transportation Co., all of which are controlled by the N.Y., N.H.
In 1636 Hartford was the meeting-place of the first general court of the Connecticut colony; the Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution, were adopted at Hartford in 1639; and after the union of the colonies of New Haven and Connecticut, accomplished by the charter of 1662, Hartford became the sole capital; but from 1701 until 1873 that honour was shared with New Haven.
In 1647 he seized a Dutch ship illegally trading at New Haven and claimed jurisdiction as far as Cape Cod; the New Haven authorities refused to deliver to him fugitives from justice in Manhattan; he retaliated by offering refuge to runaways from New Haven; but finally he offered pardon to the Dutch fugitives and revoked his proclamation.
The township is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and by the Central New England railways, which meet at Simsbury village.
Others are Sengekontacket Pond on the eastern coast; Lagoon Pond, which is practically an arm of Vineyard Haven Harbor; and, about a mile east of the Harbor, Chappaquonsett Pond.
The principal villages are Oak Bluffs on the north-east coast, facing Vineyard Sound; Vineyard Haven, in Tisbury township, beautifully situated on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, and Edgartown on Edgartown Harbor - all summer resorts.
Martha's Vineyard is served by steamship lines from Wood's Hole and New Bedford to Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs, and Edgartown.
The Martha's Vineyard railway (from Oak Bluffs to the south-east extremity of the island, by way of Edgartown), opened in 1874, was not a financial success, and had been practically abandoned in 1909, but an electric line from Oak Bluffs to Vineyard Haven provides transit facilities for that part of the island.
Its principal village, Vineyard Haven, was called "Holmes's Hole" (in honour of one of the early settlers) until 1871, when the present name was adopted.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and by daily steamers to and from New York City.
The borough is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad.
Among the more important periodicals are the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (Rochester, N.Y., 1889 seq.); the American Journal of Science (New Haven, Conn., 1818 seq.); the American Geologist (Minneapolis, i888 seq.); Journal of Geology (Chicago, 1893 seq.); Economic Geology (Lancaster, Pa., 1905 seq.).
Weymouth is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and is connected with Boston, Quincy, Braintree, Hingham, Nantasket and Rockland by electric lines.
Berbera stands at the head of a deep inlet which forms the only completely sheltered haven on the south side of the Gulf of Aden.
From 1761 until his death New Haven was his home.
He was once more a member of the Connecticut Assembly in 1764-1766, was one of the governor's assistants in 1766-1785, a judge of the Connecticut superior court in 1766-1789, treasurer of Yale College in 1765-1776, a delegate to the Continental Congress in1774-1781and again in 1783-1784, a member of the Connecticut Committee of Safety in1777-1779and in 1782, mayor of New Haven in 1784-1793, a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 and to the Connecticut Ratification Convention of the same year, and a member of the Federal House of Representatives in 1789-1791 and of the United States Senate in 1791-1793.
He died in New Haven on the 23rd of July 1793.
Fishkill Landing is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways; by railway ferry and passenger ferries to Newburgh, connecting with the West Shore railway; by river steamboats and by electric railway to Matteawan.
The principal inlets are Killary Harbour between Mayo and Galway; Clew Bay, in which are the harbours of Westport and Newport; Blacksod Bay and Broad Haven, which form the peninsula of the Mullet; and Killala Bay between Mayo and Sligo.
Lock Haven was made the county-seat immediately after the erection of Clinton county in 1839, was incorporated as a borough in 1840, and first chartered as a city in 1870.
There are harbours at Morrison's Haven to the west and at Cockenzie and Port Seton to the north-east, which practically form one village, with a population of 1687.
Another city on the sea is called a haven, D'ar (Tyre) is its name, water is carried to it in boats; it is richer in fish than in sands."
It is served by the main line and the Danbury division (of which it is a terminus) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, by inter-urban electric lines, and by steamboats to New York.
He returned to Connecticut in 1785 and made New Haven his home, becoming rector of St James's Church there.
Norwich is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Central Vermont railways, by steamers from New York and New London, and by interurban electric lines connecting with Willimantic, New London and other neighbouring places.
The borough of New Haven (pop. in 1900, 1532) was annexed to Connellsville after the census enumeration of 1900.
It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways, and by electric lines to New York City, Yonkers, New Rochelle, &c. The city has various manufactures, but in the main is a residential suburb of New York; the finest residences are in the eastern, central and north-eastern sections, the last being known as Chester Hill; the foreign-born element is largely concentrated in the western part.
It is served by the Boston & Albany, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways.
Grand Haven is the port of entry for the Customs District of Michigan, and has a small export and import trade.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by several inter-urban electric railways.
Of these, the earliest was the Algonquin National Park, which also forms a haven of refuge for the wild creatures.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Albany railways, and by interurban electric lines.
Milford is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and by an electric line connecting with Bridgeport and New Haven.
Named after Milford, England, it was founded in 1639 by Rev. Peter Prudden and his followers from New Haven and Wethersfield.
A "church-state" was immediately organized after the model of that of New Haven, but two or three years later the town bestowed suffrage on six of its inhabitants who were not church members.
These citizens were an obstacle to the town's admission to the New Haven Jurisdiction, which was formed in 1643, but in the following year a compromise was effected and Milford was admitted on condition that, in the future, suffrage should be granted only to church members and that none of the objectionable six should be elected to any office of the Jurisdiction.
A mythology reminiscent of Italy is the "Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds" in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg, founded directly upon the "Hercules and Centaur Nessus" of Pollaiuolo, now at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. Of portraits, besides that of his father already mentioned as done in 1497, there is his own of 1498 at Madrid.
Norwood is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway.
The final debates of 1706 were conducted under apprehensions of an invasion of Edinburgh by highlanders and wild western fanatics of the Covenant; but the astuteness of Harley's agent in Edinburgh, de Foe, the resolution of Argyll and the tact of Queensberry, who easily terrified the duke of Hamilton, carried the measure into haven.
Some of these are united to the mainland and to each other by jetties which curve round so as to form the Port de Refuge, a haven available only in fair weather.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Central Vermont railways, and by electric lines to Baltic, Norwich and New London, and to South Coventry.
Westerly is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by interurban electric lines connecting with Norwich and New London, Conn.
These are the Talak and the Aeng, navigable by boats; and the Sandoway, the Taungup and the Gwa streams, the latter of which alone has any importance, owing to its mouth forming a good port of call or haven for vessels of from 9 to io ft.
Lowell is served by the Boston & Maine and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways, and by interurban electric lines.
Four days more, and Krauss's men had captured Monte Asolone, which looks down the Valle di Santa Felicita to the longed-for haven of the plain.
A separate colony was founded at New Haven in 1638 by emigrants from England who had stayed for a time in Boston and other Massachusetts towns, but this was annexed to Connecticut in 1664 under the Connecticut charter of 1662.
Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven constituted in their early years a group of neighbouring colonies, substantially independent of the mother country, and possessing a unity of purpose and similar institutions but in need of mutual protection from the Indians, the Dutch and the French, and also needing an arbiter to whom they might refer their own disputes, especially those relating to boundaries and trade.
This board was to meet annually in September, two years of every five at Boston, one year of every five at Hartford, one at New Haven, and one at Plymouth; special meetings also might be called by three magistrates of any of the four colonies.
The commissioners met regularly until 1684 - annually until New Haven submitted to Connecticut in 1664, and triennially from 1664 to 1684, when Massachusetts lost its first charter.
The chief inlets are the mouth of the Dee, dividing Flint from Cheshire; the Menai Straits, separating Anglesea from the mainland; Carnarvon Bay; Cardigan Bay, stretching from Braich-y-Pwll to St Davids Head; St Brides Bay; Milford Haven; Carmarthen Bay; and Swansea Bay.
Scandinavian influence can easily be traced at various points of the coast-line, but particularly in south Pembrokeshire, wherein occur such place-names as Caldy, Tenby, Goodwick, Dale, Skokholm, Hakin and Milford Haven.
Hybrid place-names are occasionally to be met with in the colonized portions of Wales, as in Gelliswick (a combination of the Celtic gelli, a hazel grove, and the Norse wick, a haven), and in Fletherhill, where the English suffix hill is practically a translation of the Celtic prefix.
The deep-sea fisheries on the south-western coasts are of some importance; the Mumbles, Tenby and Milford Haven being the chief centres of this industry.
But the most important result of this first Norman invasion was to be found in the marvellous and rapid success of Robert Fitz-Hamon, earl of Gloucester, who, accompanied by a number of knightly adventurers, quickly overran South Wales, and erected a chain of castles stretching from the Wye to Milford Haven.
The aims of Owen were described by himself in a letter addressed to Charles VI., king of France, who had hastened to acknowledge the upstart as Prince of Wales and had sent 12,000 troops on his behalf to Milford Haven.
Through the instrumentality of the celebrated Sir Rhys ap Thomas (1451-1527), the wealthiest and the most powerful personage in South Wales, Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, on his landing at Milford Haven in 1485 found the Welsh ready to rise in his behalf against the usurper Richard III.
Barnstable is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway.
Lady Deborah Moody left Massachusetts for the New Netherlands in 1643 because of her antipaedobaptist views and on her way stopped at New Haven, where she won to her principles Mrs Eaton, the wife of the governor, Theophilus Eaton.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by an electric line connecting with Winsted.
The township is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by a steamship line to Boston.
Worcester is served by the Boston & Albany, the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Maine railways, and is connected with Springfield and Boston by interurban electric lines.
Duxbury is served by the Old Colony system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway.
He delivered a course of six Lowell lectures in Boston, and visited New York, New Haven, Baltimore, &c., spending the winter at Washington.
In 1641 English colonists from New Haven migrated southward and planted a settlement on the eastern bank of the Delaware river, declaring it to be a part of the New Haven jurisdiction.
In the following year Governor Kieft, with the assistance of the Swedes, arrested the English and sent them back to New Haven.
The name appears in the early forms of Hermodewode and Hamersmith; the derivation is probably from the Anglo-Saxon, signifying the place with a haven (hythe).
There the resistance of a series of igneous dykes gives prominence to the Pembroke peninsula, in which the fine fjord-like harbour of Milford Haven lies far out towards the Atlantic. The coast north of Pembroke and Merioneth has been worked into the grand sweep of Cardigan Bay, its surface carved into gently rounded hills, green with rich grass, which sweep downward into wide rounded valleys.
It occupies a small but fertile and beautiful valley, shut in by mountains on every side except towards the sea, and containing the fortified haven of Portugalete, the industrial town of Baracaldo, and the villages of Santurce and Las Arenas, where the Nervion broadens to form the Bay of Bilbao at its mouth.
It is served by the Grand Trunk, the Pere Marquette, the Grand Rapids & Indiana, and the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (electric) railways, and by steamboat lines to Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports.
The two years after his graduation he spent in New Haven studying theology.
He lived in Stockbridge in1751-1755and spoke the language of the Housatonic Indians with ease, for six months studied among the Oneidas, graduated at Princeton in 1765, studied theology at Bethlehem,Connecticut, under Joseph Bellamy,was licensed to preach in 1766, was a tutor at Princeton in 1766-1769, and was pastor of the White Haven Church, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1769-1795, being then dismissed for the nominal reason that the church could not support him, but actually because of his opposition to the Half-Way Covenant as well as to slavery and the slave trade.
Both are situated on the Pequabuck river, and are served by the western branch of the midland division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by electric railway to Hartford, New Britain and Terryville.
The suffix is thus the common form hythe, a haven; but for the prefix no certain derivation is offered.
The chief village, Northampton, is on the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Maine railways.
Pop. (1900), 13,60 9 (3311 were foreign-born); (1910), 14,J79; it is served by the Boston & Maine and the New York New Haven & Hartford railways, and by inter-urban electric lines.
He preached in 1750 to the Indians at Stockbridge, later studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1753, and practised in New Haven for two years.
But the two ancient harbours have been dried up; the two peninsulas have met; the long street has been extended to the present coast-line; a small inlet, called the Cala, alone represents the old haven.
King Richard, hurrying back broke from Ireland, landed at Milford Haven just in time lands to learn.
This time it was successfully carried out, and the earl of Richmond landed at Milford Haven with many exiles, both Yorkists and Lancastrians, and 1000 mercenaries lent him by the princess regent of France.
Anciently Waterford was called Cuan-na-groith, the haven of the sun.
To equip it more fully for that purpose, several artificial harbours were constructed along the southern shore of the city, where no natural haven existed to accommodate ships coming up the Sea of Marmora.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and by an interurban electric line.
Reared in the wild country round Otsego Lake, N.Y., on the yet unsettled estates of his father, a judge and member of Congress, he was sent to school at Albany and at New Haven, and entered Yale College in his fourteenth year, remaining for some time the youngest student on the rolls.
Springfield is served by the Springfield division of the New York & New England, the Hartford division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the Connecticut River division of the Boston & Maine, and the Athol division and the main line of the Boston & Albany railways, and by inter-urban electric railway lines.
Henry landed at Milford Haven among his Welsh allies and defeated Richard at the battle of Bosworth (August 22, 1485).
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by electric lines to Hartford and to Springfield, Massachusetts.
It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the West Shore, the Central New England, and the Poughkeepsie & Eastern (merged in the Central New England) railways, and by river steamboat lines on the Hudson.
It is said that a former Skegness, an important haven, was obliterated by the encroachments of the sea; Leland, writing in the middle of the, 6th century, states that proofs of this were then extant.
Wright, of New Haven, also made careful observations leading to the conclusion that the spectrum differs from sunlight only in intensity.
After practising law with some distinction he entered the Episcopalian ministry in 1827 and proved a brilliant and impressive preacher, holding livings in New Haven, Philadelphia, New York and New Orleans, and declining several bishoprics.
He died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 13th of May 1859.
It is of importance for its haven and the adjacent salt lagoons.
After passing through a course of instruction at the Royal Engineers' establishment, Chatham, he was promoted lieutenant in 1854, and was sent to Pembroke dock to assist in the construction of the fortifications then being erected for the defence of Milford Haven.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and by electric railways to New York City and neighbouring places.
Wilson developed the sewing machine; that Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanising rubber; that Samuel Colt began the manufacture of the Colt fire-arms; and it was from near New Haven that Eli Whitney went to Georgia where he invented the cotton gin.
Transportation of products is facilitated by water routes (chiefly coasting), for which there are ports of entry at New Haven, Hartford, Stonington, New London and Bridgeport, and by 1013 m.
One company, the New York, New Haven & Hartford, controlled 87% of this railway mileage in 1904, and practically all the steamboat lines on Long Island Sound.
The principal cities, having a population of more than 20,000, were New Haven (108,027), Hartford (79, 8 5 0), Bridgeport (70,966), Waterbury (45,859), New Britain (2 5,99 8), and Meriden (24,296).
The executive and legislative officials are chosen by the electors for a term of two years; the attorney general for four years; the judges of the supreme court of errors and the superior court, appointed by the general assembly on nomination by the governor, serve for eight, and the judges of the courts of common pleas (in Hartford, New London, New Haven, Litchfield and Fairfield counties) and of the district courts, chosen in like manner, serve for four years.
Soon after the foundation of the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven, schools similar to the English Latin schools were established.
The Connecticut Code of 1650 required all parents to educate their children, and every township of 50 householders (later 30) to have a teacher supported by the men of family, while the New Haven Code of 1656 also encouraged education.
Supplementing the educative influence of the schools are the public libraries (161 in number in 1907); the state appropriates $200 to establish, and $100 per annum to maintain, a public library (provided the town in which the library is to be established contributes an equal amount), and the Public Library Committee has for its duty the study of library problems. Higher education is provided by Yale University; by Trinity College, at Hartford (nonsectarian), founded in 1823; by Wesleyan University, at Middletown, the oldest college of the Methodist Church in the United States, founded in 1831; by the Hartford Theological Seminary (1834); by the Connecticut Agricultural College, at Storrs (founded 1881), which has a two years' course of preparation for rural teachers and has an experiment station; by the Connecticut Experiment Station at New Haven, which was established in 1875 at Middletown and was the first in the United States; and by normal schools at New Britain (established 1881), Willimantic (1890), New Haven (1894) and Danbury (1903).
In the meantime another migration to the Connecticut country had begun in 1638, when a party of Puritans who had arrived in Massachusetts the preceding year sailed from Boston for the Connecticut coast and there founded New Haven.
In 1643 the jurisdiction of the New Haven colony was extended by the admission of the townships of Milford, Guilford and Stamford to equal rights with New Haven, the recognition of their local governments, and the formation of two courts for the whole jurisdiction, a court of magistrates to try important cases and hear appeals from " plantation " courts, and a general court with legislative powers, the highest court of appeals, which was similar in composition to the general court of the Connecticut Colony.
Of the laws (45 in number) given by Peters, more than one-half really existed in New Haven, and more than four-fifths existed in some form in the New England colonies.
Among those of New Haven are the prohibition of trial by jury, the infliction of the death penalty for adultery, and of the same penalty for conspiracy against the jurisdiction, the strict observance of the Sabbath enjoined, and heavy fines for " concealing or entertaining Quaker or other blasphemous hereticks."
The next step in the formation of modern Connecticut was the union of the New Haven colony with the older colony.
This charter had been secured without the knowledge or consent of the New Haven colonists and they naturally protested against the union with Connecticut.
Hartford then became the capital of the united colonies, but shared that honour with New Haven from 1701 until 1873.
The relations of Connecticut and New Haven with the mother country were similar to those of the other New England colonies.
Yet with the exception of isolated British movements against Stonington in 1775, Danbury in 1777, New Haven in 1779 and New London in 1781 no battles were fought in Connecticut territory.
The township of Marlborough, with a population in 1900 of 322, then had one representative, while the city of Hartford, with a population of 79,850, had only two; and the township of Union, with 428 inhabitants, and the city of New Haven, with 108,027, each had two representatives.
Perhaps the most satisfactory historical work is that of Benjamin Trumbull, A Complete History of Connecticut from 1630 to 1764 (New Haven, 1804-1818).
For the sources, see Colonial Records of Connecticut (15 vols., Hartford, 1850-1890); The Records of the Colony and the Plantation of New Haven (2 vols., Hartford, 1857-1858) and Records of the State of Connecticut (2 vols., Hartford, 1894-1895).
The Collections (Hartford 1860 et seq.) of the Connecticut Historical Society contain valuable material, especially the papers of Governor Joseph Talcott; and the Papers (New Haven, 1865 et seq.) of the New Haven Colony Historical Society are extremely valuable for local history; but a vast number of documents relating to the colonial and state periods, now in the state library at Hartford, have never been published.
Once a haven for smugglers, Salcombe pays due homage to this past in it's excellent maritime museum.
Also at Holland Haven is the Holland Haven Country Park, comprising 100 acres of natural open space close to the sea.
The other main car park in Exeter is Haven Banks Car Parks positioned on the south side of the river.
Homes bid on bungalow site Shell Haven future remains unclear Murder inquiry under way More seats for c2c commuters Who stole my little pony?
Endless variety makes Angus a haven for the outdoor enthusiasts.
Combe haven was a little better with a stonechat, snipe and several fieldfares present.
You ' ve hardly started - and you haven ' t lived till you ' ve taken on the giant 60m flume at Waterworld.
On tuesday I came accross a barnacle goose in Combe Haven valley.
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To the north our neighbors agricultural land rises steeply, and has gorse and fern growing, which is a haven for wild life.
A female marsh harrier was hunting over Combe Haven Valley.
Established in Saxon times, Beadnell was once an important fishing village and a ' smugglers ' haven ' .
Britain will be a safe haven, not a soft touch.
Find a tranquil haven in our separate lounge area - perfect for reading, playing board games or a quiet chat.
The new floral beds, formally opened in July 2002, enhance this peaceful haven.
Fax machines used to transmit clinical information should be kept in a 'safe haven ' .
A luxurious haven for those wishing to enjoy the best that the capital has to offer.
River Channel is 3m plus tide but vessels 11m cannot berth in yacht haven but alongside main key, giving prior notice to HM.
The FARC and the ELN often use the area for cross-border incursions and regard Venezuelan territory near the border as a safe haven.
This may take the form of crisis intervention in community or the'safe haven ' of a crisis house.
All in all Wear Valley is a haven for those who enjoy the outdoors and discovering the magnificence of the area is easy.
Mostly rugged moorland, it's a haven for walkers and those on the trail of ancient megaliths and Stone Circles.
Priestley's sons hoped to establish a haven nearby for English nonconformists who faced discrimination and persecution at home.
This is not palliative care that takes away the pain of living, a safe haven from life's storm and stress.
A lockable internal passageway links The Haven with The Stables giving ideal accommodation for parties or multiple families.
Each place which has tidal predictions done for it (eg Dover, Milford Haven etc) has its own local chart datum.
The fine example of a Victorian rectory dated 1876 stands in secluded grounds with mature trees which provide a haven for wildlife.
For those who need their beauty sleep a designated quiet camping area will offer a peaceful haven away from the night's revelry.
The garden is stylish with plants known for their aphrodisiac qualities, while providing a haven for couples to rekindle romance.
Travel without moving and make your home a happy haven for your fellow scouts in the process And don't forget.
Hawthorn and blackthorn scrub has covered areas of the banks turning them into a haven for warblers and spotted flycatcher.
I made directly for this ' haven ' but had to pass the sentry at the gateway.
Magic Hills, Gorran Haven Three holiday bungalows situated in a quiet sheltered position in the coastal village of Gorran Haven.
However, for all its soaring skyscrapers, it is still a haven of tropical vegetation.
If anything, the family as haven grates a little in its eventual surrender to the apparently inevitable.
Russia has become an ideal haven form money laundering by the world's organized crime syndicates.
I haven ' t heard a bad word against the boys.
For all its recent travails, it seems to still serve a purpose as a safe haven in a storm.
The Elan Valley is a haven for bird watchers in our delightful countryside, for the dedicated enthusiast or the casual day tripper.
Gorran Haven is a quiet seaside village very popular with those seeking a relaxing peaceful holiday.
Across the street is The Broadway another haven for culture vultures.
The haven is guarded by US and British warplanes, but the area lies well beyond the Iraqi no-fly zone.
The company intends to manage the parks as a haven for wildlife and as a way of regenerating native woodland.
In October 1639 a form of government was adopted, based on the Mosiac Law, and Eaton was elected governor, a post which he continued to hold by annual re-election, first over New Haven alone, and after 1643 over the New Haven Colony or Jurisdiction, until his death at New Haven on the 7th of January 1658.
His administration was embarrassed by constantly recurring disputes with the neighbouring Dutch settlements,especially after Stamford(Conn.) and Southold (Long Island) had entered the New Haven Jurisdiction, but his prudence and diplomacy prevented an actual outbreak of hostilities.
In 1655 he and Davenport drew up the code of laws, popularly known as the "Connecticut Blue Laws," which were published in London in 1656 under the title New Haven's Settling in New England and some Lawes for Government published for the Use of that Colony.
The township is traversed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, covers an area of 221 sq.
By the act of 1536 Pembroke was declared the leading borough in the Pembroke parliamentary district, yet the town continued to dwindle until the settlement of the government dockyard and works on Milford Haven.
Its principal bays are Vineyard Haven Harbor, a deep indentation at the northernmost angle of the island; and, on the eastern coast, Edgartown Harbor and Katama Bay, both formed by the juxtaposition of Chappaquiddick Island.
The industry, seriously crippled by invasions of British troops during the War of American Independence - especially by a force which landed at Holmes's Hole (Vineyard Haven) in September 1778 - and again during the War of 1812, revived and was at its height in 1840-1850, only to receive another setback during the Civil War.
Early records present the name Lamb-hythe in various forms. The suffix is common along the river in the meaning of a haven, but the prefix is less clear; a Saxon word signifying mud is suggested.
The Connecticut clock maker and clock peddler was the 18th-century embodiment of Yankee ingenuity; the most famous of the next generation of clock makers were Eli Terry (1772-1852), who made a great success of his wooden clocks; Chauncey Jerome, who first used brass wheels in 1837 and founded in 1844 the works of the New Haven Clock Co.; Gideon Roberts; and Terry's pupil and successor, Seth Thomas (1786-1859), who built the factory at Thomaston carried on by his son Seth Thomas (1816-1888).
I have sometimes disturbed a fish hawk sitting on a white pine over the water; but I doubt if it is ever profaned by the wind of a gull, like Fair Haven.
The fine example of a Victorian Rectory dated 1876 stands in secluded grounds with mature trees which provide a haven for wildlife.
The resultant craters provide a refuge for wildlife, whilst the fallen tree trunks become a haven for beetles.
For those who need their beauty sleep a designated quiet camping area will offer a peaceful haven away from the night 's revelry.
Would that he could return to this, such a safe haven !
The main areas of salt marsh affected were those seaward of the Cleddau bridge, which spans the haven immediately east of Pembroke Dock.
Travel without moving and make your home a happy haven for your fellow Scouts in the process And do n't forget.
However, when Pete squeezed through to the last safe haven before the choke, we heard laughter peel out.
Russia has become an ideal haven form money laundering by the world 's organized crime syndicates.
With sand, palm trees and a stock of deck chairs the Old Truman Brewery has been transformed into a complete beach haven.
Just fixing a single bug undocumented feature would probably haven taken 2 months !
Here, uprooted tree stumps are arranged to form a natural sculpture that provides a safe haven for woodland plants and wildlife.
They do not see the beauty of the wildflower meadow, or our wildlife haven.
The destruction of the wild-flower meadow by the building of an 18-hole golf course would also remove a wildlife haven.
I haven’t seen that movie yet, so don’t tell me how it ends!
I’m starving! I haven’t eaten anything since breakfast.
I haven’t seen you since high school, what have you been doing all these years?
Your baby's nursery can become a peaceful haven.
You are helping her to venture out and learn new things, while at the same time providing a safe haven for her to run to.
If you haven't already done so, now is the time to proceed to the hospital.
The wonderful idea behind a jungle nursery is that it is easily transformed into a preschooler's haven by removing the crib and replacing it with a toddler bed or full-size bed.
This is another reason why crate training is so valuable; it gives dogs a safe haven and space that is exclusively theirs.
A ladybug décor for nursery rooms is a fantastic way to create a one-of-kind haven for your baby girl.
For a peaceful and innocent nursery theme, Beatrix Potter nursery items can transform a room into a haven for your baby and for you on some of those sleepless nights.
Making a Beatrix Potter themed nursery creates a haven much like the natural park areas that Beatrix Potter loved so much and made the effort to preserve for future generations.
Don't be afraid to experiment with a few varieties you haven't tried.
Coastal cottage furnishings can create the perfect ambiance for your beach haven.
Deal Haven, with its Youth Folding Moon Papasan Chair, may have your solution if you have kids you're taking out into the wilderness.
Chris is particularly famous for her "home as haven" mantra.
It is close to a larger Amish craft store called Dutch Haven that sells locally made Amish furniture in addition to Amish gifts and souvenirs.
It is easy to see the Dutch influence in the architecture because Dutch Haven has a giant windmill on the roof.
Of course, the perfect bedroom is also a haven from the outside world.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful…so what you need are some delightful ideas to turn your home into warm and cozy haven from that winter wonderland brewing outside your window.
If you want to create a haven or retreat, go with a hue of green for your walls.
Scrapbook conventions are a haven for experienced scrappers and beginners alike.
This charming little hill is located in Grand Haven, Michigan.
A youth group is a safe haven for personal growth and making friendships without the pressures of drinking, drugs, or other hazardous behavior.
The best thing about youth group games is that the group is a safe haven for expressing yourself.
Sometimes you want your toes covered, like when you haven’t been able to get a pedicure or when the temperatures are unusually cool at nighttime.
There are women's-only treatment centers and support groups that function as a safe haven for women and girls who are in recovery.
Investing in stylish and luxurious bedding will make your bedroom a designer haven you'll look forward to retreating to each and every night.
Angelina Jolie vs. Sandra Bullock - An audience member was killed by a knife of Jolie's, and James Haven by a bomb he retrieved from her rear end.
Meanwhile, Jolie lived with her mother and her brother James Haven Voight.
It is ironic that the same country known for harboring U.S. draft dodgers provides a haven for celebrity political outcasts.
September 2006 - Haven - Bloom will play the character of Shy in this indie thriller by the people behind the Academy Award winning Crash.
Yale University was founded in 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut.
The uniquely beautiful and uninhabited setting makes it a haven for sunset cruise operators.Kauai sunset sails usually run about four hours because they have so much water to cover traveling to and from the Na Pail Coastline.
During the spring it is a haven for breaching humpback whales, blankets of wildflowers, and acres of unspoiled wilderness.
The laid-back city is a haven for tourists, thanks in large part to its cruise port.
When used correctly, a crate can become your dog's safe haven.
This will make him resent the crate and not consider it his safe haven.
You'll find even more great dog formal wear at My Pet Haven.
A whelping box replicates the birth den as a haven for the mother and her litter.
Follow a few simple guidelines and you will be on your way to becoming a butterfly haven.
The Vineyard Haven hat, for example, is a fabric hat that comprises some sun protection in the fibers as well as shading you.
When buying a shirt in a brand you haven't worn before, it's preferable to try it on first and get some assistance from a knowledgeable salesperson.
If you suffer from environmental allergies, you probably already know that your bedroom is a haven for dust mites.
If you've been thinking you'd like to learn to sew and just haven't gotten around to signing up for a class, your need for cute rompers is just the right excuse.
What type of pieces should you outfit your garden with to make the entire area, leading from your patio and beyond, an outdoor haven?
By creating this lovely haven outside and being able to have furniture made just for your body, you'll enjoy it that much more.
If you haven't purchased hip hop clothing in the past and are now checking various brands, take the time to read reviews from the regular everyday people who have bought them and worn them.
The first step, if you haven't already done so, is to get fitted.
One person's ideal retirement haven would be completely inappropriate for another.
Since many AARP members haven't actually retired yet, there are frequent articles on retirement planning and pension concerns.
The goal is to find a day care center that serves as a haven for those needing assistance and supervision.
One person may consider a country setting God-forsaken and in the middle of nowhere, while another may welcome it as a haven.
You just may want to take a trip and find that beautiful haven that's been a well-kept secret.
It is located in Western New Haven County and has a nice blend of rural, suburban, and historic features.
The Haven in the Village at Chanticleer is an Alzheimer's and dementia care residence located near the historic neighborhoods of Augusta Road.
Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park tickets are the necessary key to a fabulous amusement park getaway in this roller coaster haven, but guests should be aware of the different types of tickets and what they do and do not include.
Choosing Cedar Point packages is a great way to save money on a getaway to this roller coaster haven.
Moonshine Hollow is a haven for peace seekers.
While most people think of the internet as nothing more than a haven for pornography and piracy, it can also help in more wholesome ways.
Now PCs are the haven for games that require high graphical detail and complicated user interfaces - games like real-time strategy and role-playing games, where the player has to manage multiple units or complicated inventories.
With the onslaught of strange disappearances and mysterious events, the threat upon the city is on the rise and the utopian haven is in danger of being tarnished forever.
Babies instinctively reach out for the safety and security of the safe haven they have with their primary caregiver, while parents usually instinctively protect and nurture their children.
From 12 to 18 months, as they start to walk and crawl, children use their attachment figure as a secure base from which to go out and discover the world and as a safe haven to which to return when frightened or alarmed.
If you're going to go through the steps to make your room the perfect positive chi haven for your career reputation, remember to keep it up.
It's easy to learn how to feng shui the bedroom when you approach it as a retreat to create a safe haven where you can relax.
Don't worry if you haven't yet waxed, or lost those last few winter pounds -- neither has nearly anyone else.
Lo provided inspiration to women everywhere, those who've had children and those who haven't.
If you haven't already discovered the beauty and never-ending treasure hunt of eBay, you're missing out on a wonderful shopping haven!
If you feel like your creativity is dormant, and you haven't had a new or original idea for days or longer, a writing prompt can help spark your imagination.
Designers like Cartier understand that a wallet should make a statement as well as a safe haven for the hundreds of dollars you must have in order to be the sort of person who can afford a Cartier wallet.
Since Capricorn always plans ahead and can become almost neurotic regarding his fear of the future, a Cancer's domestic interest in life can provide her mate with a safe haven.
The home is a haven for Taurean men and a place to rest and be with family.
As long as he knows he can return to his secure haven, Pisces is content to swim deep and long in his private solitaire world since he knows his beloved will greet him with open arms, acceptance and non-judgment whenever he resurfaces.
Some facilities are actually glorified babysitters, providing a safe, if not stimulating, haven for children to stay while their parents work.
Try to act as their pillar of strength and safety and create a warm haven in which they feel they can return for reassurance and nurturing.
If you haven't made up your mind whether you want to see the movie or not, reading some reviews may help you decide.
After two months, follow up with the address on the rebate form if you haven't received your rebate check.
Don't count on this option, but if you haven't bought tickets yet, go to the show anyway and see what the status is.
A haven for electronics lovers, Amazon.com offers an impressive selection of computers, digital cameras, laptops, mp3 players, and other gadgets.
Sephora stores are a haven for style-savvy divas, but the wide array of products can be overwhelming for someone who is merely looking for a new body lotion.
This store is a haven for all things fashionably fabulous, many of which are first spotted on the likes of Sophia Bush and Jessica Simpson.
One of Angelina Jolie's many tattoos is a simple "H" to honor her brother, James Haven.
You can seriously injure someone or infect them with staph, hepatitis or HIV with one of these machines if you haven't been properly trained to use it, so leave it to the professionals.
Representing the love she has for her brother James Haven (despite rumors of an incestuous relationship), there is the letter H on the inside of her left wrist.
If the preceding selections haven't whetted your appetite, the random watches here might just capture your undivided attention.
This form of piracy, once the haven for young, computer geeks eager to make a name for themselves in the hacker community, has been invaded by criminal elements specifically attacking business operations.
Several major corporations are chartered in Delaware because incorporating in Delaware provides an attractive corporate haven, with laws favorable and friendly to corporations.
Nevada offers a safe haven for companies that incorporate within the state.
Don't forget local garage sales, which can be a haven for quilting books ranging from beginner to expert levels.
Once a free haven to all, Napster has since become a corporate-sponsored, paid site.
He is, however, gay in a homophobic culture, and his disgusted father sends him to his aunt, a Herald in the kingdom's capitol city Haven, to 'make a man' out of him.
An old friend and hunting partner to John Winchester, Bobby provides the boys with a safe haven and research support while they are on the road.
Kinder Haven offers a wide variety of scented goat's milk soaps, including peach mango, jasmine vanilla, lilac and more.
Aromatic bath salts, in particular, will halt your worries in their tracks and provide you with a haven to escape to whenever the mood strikes.
Pet beds and pet areas - Your animals can not only carry the bugs in, but can provide a safe haven for them to breed and exist.
Hosts that haven't added the ASP feature to IIS will not be capable of running ".asp" pages.
Guestbooks have been around for years, and there are plenty of good reasons they haven't faded into the background.
However, building your own haven for former students isn't too hard and may be a good option.
Connecticut is sometimes viewed as a haven for outdoor enthusiasts because of the number of hiking and biking trails and other outdoor activities.
Even as tired as she was, his arms were a welcome haven.
In 1637 he emigrated with Davenport to Massachusetts, and in the following year (March 1638) he and Davenport founded New Haven.
He graduated at Yale College in 1807, studied theology under Timothy Dwight, anfl in 1812 became pastor of the First Church of New Haven.
Slate-quarrying and cutting is carried on in the south-western part of the state, in Rutland county; there are important quarries at Fair Haven, Poultney, Castleton, Wells and Pawlet.
Manchester is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by electric line connecting with Hartford, Rockville and Stafford Springs.
He now prorogued parliament, adopted stringent measures against the Liberals, and retired to Gaeta, the haven of refuge for deposed despots.
Her father (the Congregational minister of the town) and her mother were both descended from members of the company that, under John Davenport, founded New Haven in 1638; and the community in which she spent her childhood was one of the most intellectual in New England.
In comparing the figures, it should be noted that main line mileage in the Eastern states, as for example that of the Pennsylvania railroad and the New York, New Haven & Hartford, does not differ greatly in standards of safety or in unit cost from the best British construction, although improvement work in America is charged to income far more liberally than it has been in England.
It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, by inter-urban electric lines and in summer by steamers to Boston.
At the beginning of the 19th century a subscription was raised by the proprietors of land in the neighbourhood for improving the harbour, and an act was obtained by which they were incorporated under the title "The Grimsby Haven Co."
The promenade of Hamilton Terrace commands a fine view of the broad expanse of the Haven with its various towns and forts.
The present town of Milford Haven, originally a hamlet in the parish of Steynton, is of modern growth, and was first called into existence by the exertions of the Hon.
Milford Haven itself, designated by the Welsh Aberdaugleddau, as the estuary of the united East and West Cleddy rivers, has played an important part on several occasions in the course of history.
In 1588 the leading persons of Pembrokeshire, with Bishop Anthony Rudd of St David's at their head, petitioned Queen Elizabeth to fortify the Haven against the projected Spanish invasion, upon which the block-houses of Dale and Nangle at either side of the mouth of the harbour were accordingly erected.
During the 19th century numerous forts have been constructed for the protection of the Haven and of the royal dockyard at Pembroke Dock.
Returning to New Haven in 1869, he was appointed professor of mathematical physics in Yale College in 1871, and held that position till his death, which occurred at New Haven on the 28th of April 1903.
In the ordinary course the fleet would have been demobilized at the close of the week; but with the outlook so disturbed, the First Lord and the First Sea Lord (Prince Louis of Battenberg, afterwards Lord Milford Haven) took the responsibility of keeping it on a war footing, ready for action.
Salisbury is served by the Central New England, and the New York, New Haven, & Hartford railways.
Boston is the terminus of the Boston & Albany (New York Central), the Old Colony system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Maine railway systems, each of which controls several minor roads once in dependent.
The former (the North, or Union station, 1893) covers 9 acres and has 23 tracks; the latter (the South Terminal, 1898), one of the largest stations in the world, covers 13 acres and has 32 tracks, and is used by the Boston & Albany and by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways.
It is co-extensive with the township of New Haven (though there is both a township and a city government), and lies in the south-western part of the state, about 4 m.
New Haven is served by the main line and five branches of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, by three inter-urban electric lines and by two steamship lines connecting with New York.
New Haven is popularly known as the "City of Elms," because of the number of these trees.
Besides the University Library, there are a Public Library (1887), containing about 80,000 vols., the library of the Young Men's Institute (1826) and the collection of the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
Among the newspapers of New Haven are the Morning Journal and Courier (1832, Republican), whose weekly edition, the Connecticut Herald and Weekly Journal, was established as the New Haven Journal in 1766; the Palladium (Republican; daily, 1840; weekly, 1828); the Evening Register (Independent; daily, 1840; weekly, 1812); and the Union (1873), a Democratic evening paper.
At New Haven also are published several weekly English, German and Italian papers, and a number of periodicals, including the American Journal of Science (1818), the Yale Law Journal (1890) and the Yale Review (1892), a quarterly.
In 1900 New Haven was the most important manufacturing centre in Connecticut, and in 1905 it was second only to Bridgeport in the value of its factory product.
Commercially, New Haven is primarily a distributing point for the Atlantic seaboard, but the city is a port of entry, and foreign commerce (almost exclusively importing) is carried on to some extent, the imports in 1909 being valued at $404,805.
The first settlement in New Haven (called Quinnipiac, its Indian name, until 1640) was made in the autumn of 1637 by a party of explorers in search of a site for colonization for a band of Puritans, led by Theophilus Eaton and the Rev. John Davenport, who had arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, from England in July 1637.
In1643-1644the colony was expanded into the New Haven Jurisdiction, embracing the towns of New Haven, Guilford, Milford, Stamford and Branford in Connecticut, and, on Long Island, Southold; but this "Jurisdiction" was dissolved in 1664, and all these towns (except Southold) passed under the jurisdiction of Connecticut, according to the Connecticut charter of 1662.
The government of the Jurisdiction was of the strictest Puritan type, and although the forty-five "blue laws" which the Rev. Samuel Peters, in his General History of Connecticut, ascribed to New Haven were much confused with the laws of the other New England colonies and some were mere inventions, yet many of them, and others equally "blue," were actually in operation as enactments or as court decisions in New Haven.
The municipality owns and operates the gas and electric-lighting plants and the water works (the watersupply being derived from natural ponds, some of which are outside the city limits), and owns and leases (to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad) a railway extending (10.3 m.) to Westfield, Mass.
Indeed, Holland became the home of modern religious liberty, the haven of innumerable free spirits, and the centre of activity of printers and publishers, who asked for no other imprimatur than the prospect of intelligent readers.
Lock Haven is the seat of the Central State Normal School (opened 1877), and has a public library and a hospital.
A town was founded in 1833, the Pennsylvania Canal (no longer in use here) was completed to this point in 1834, and the name of the place was suggested by two canal locks and the harbour, or haven, for rafts in the river.
Grand Haven was laid out as a town in 1836, and was chartered as a city in 1867.
However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.
The hunter who told me this could remember one Sam Nutting, who used to hunt bears on Fair Haven Ledges, and exchange their skins for rum in Concord village; who told him, even, that he had seen a moose there.
This tiny creperie is a romantic, dimly lit haven of creative crepes and cocktails.
The growth of the town was further checked twenty years later by the development of Neyland, or New Milford, further east on the Haven, whither the Irish packet service was transferred; but towards the close of the 19th century the town recovered much of its former prosperity.
The garrison of the Akra had been starved by a close blockade into submission, and beyond the boundaries of Judaea " he took Joppa for a haven and made himself master of Gazara and Bethsura."
They passed over the pond toward Fair Haven, seemingly deterred from settling by my light, their commodore honking all the while with a regular beat.
It commonly opens about the first of April, a week or ten days later than Flint's Pond and Fair Haven, beginning to melt on the north side and in the shallower parts where it began to freeze.
Milford Haven is the terminus of a branch-line of the South Wales section of the Great Western railway.
Grimsby was an important seaport, but the haven became obstructed by sand and mud deposited by the Humber, and so the access of large vessels was prevented.
For the moment, the soft couch was a haven to her exhausted and aching body.