New Haven, CT Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

NEW HAVEN , founded in 1638 by a group of wealthy Puritans from London on a large natural harbor at the mouth of the Quinnipiac River, developed a solid economy based on shipping and, later, industry. In 1716 it became the seat of Yale University , the third oldest college in the States, but it was hardware, firearms, gas and other types of manufacturing in the nineteenth century that really brought the city into its own. New Haven churned out Winchester rifles, musical instruments, tools, carriages and corsets, and Eli Whitney , inventor of the revolutionary cotton gin, discovered in his workshop here a method of … more »