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WEST HAVEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 544 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEST HAVEN , a See also:borough of See also:Orange township, New Haven See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., on New Haven Harbor and separated from New Haven by the West See also:river. Pop. (Igloo) 5247 (893 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 8543. West Haven is served by the New See also:York, New Haven, & See also:Hartford railway. It is mainly a residential suburb of New Haven. There is a public See also:park, and Savin See also:Rock, rising from See also:Long See also:Island See also:Sound, is a summer resort. West Haven was set apart from New Haven in 1822 and was See also:united with See also:North See also:Milford to See also:form the township of Orange; it was incorporated as a borough in 1873.

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