![]() ![]() Eighteen passenger trains stopped at the Broadway station every day. Linsley designed and built 32 Victorian style houses and public buildings in North Haven.īy 1900, public transportation was important to North Haven residents. In the 1880s, Solomon Linsley, a North Haven architect, built the Memorial Town Hall and the new District 4 School. By 1880, 11 out of 100 people had been born outside of the United States. Stiles Co., brought immigrants to North Haven from Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Poland. One-third of the residents worked in various nonagricultural occupations such as mechanics, brickmakers, and shoemakers.Īfter the Civil War, the expanding production of bricks, especially by the I.L. In the 1850 census, 62% of the population was listed as farmers. ![]() In addition, small industries such as the manufacture of agricultural implements in Clintonville began in 1830. In 1838, the New Haven and Hartford Railroad had laid its tracks along the level sand plains by the Quinnipiac River. However, the 1789 Grand List had found 1,620 sheep in North Haven, with the sheep outnumbering the residents.īy the middle of the nineteenth century, signs of the Industrial Revolution were apparent. The first United States census counted 1,236 people in the agricultural community of North Haven in 1790. New roads were built to facilitate communication, namely the Hartford Turnpike in 1798 and the Middletown Turnpike in 1813. ![]() In 1786, the General Assembly permitted North Haven to incorporate as a town, separate from New Haven. All of these people were multipurpose farmers, producing what they needed for themselves and their families. About half of the original Pierpont gift remains today as the North Haven Green.Įzra Stiles enumerated about forty families living in North Haven in the early part of the eighteenth century. The first meeting house, completed in 1722, stood on the Green, west of what is now known as the Old Center Cemetery. To this day the North Haven Funeral Home is family owned & operated.In his will of 1714, the Reverend James Pierpont (1659–1714) of New Haven gave 8 acres (32,000 m 2) to his neighbors in the Northeast Parish, as North Haven was called, "provided those neighbors will set their meeting house there and do their training and burying there." The Havens family has strived to maintain the good name the Rousseau’s established and was rated number one by the Advocate *Best* of New Haven Readers Poll from 2006 to 2011. Completion of this new undertaking took over two years. In 2003, the Havens family started major renovations and redecorations new and larger viewing chapels, sound and video systems, preparation, flower and rest rooms and enlargement of the parking facilities. The Rousseau’s sold the North Haven Funeral Home to Brian and Phyllis Havens on June 30th, 1983 and the Havens’ moved into the second floor raising their two children Jennifer & Luciano. In 1967 a casket display room and a three car garage were also added. In 1957 a larger viewing chapel, preparation room, smoking lounge, ladies and men’s rooms were added. Rousseau started The North haven Funeral Home and made their home on the second floor along with their two daughters. Rousseau for the purpose of starting a funeral home. In 1952 the property was purchased by Robert A. To this day it stands as a landmark in the center of the North Haven Historical Society. This Victorian style home was built in 1872 and was the homestead of Dr. ![]()
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