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Route 10 (Connecticut)
Connecticut Route 10 is a state highway that runs from Interstate 95 (I-95) in New Haven Massachusetts state line, where it continues as Massachusetts Route 10, which in turn continues directly to New Hampshire Route 10. Route 10 was originally commissioned in 1922 as New England Route 10, connecting Old Saybrook to Granby. In the 1927, the New England system of route numbers was disbanded, and the route was added to the state route system. In the 1930s, it was realigned to connect New Haven and Granby through Connecticut. It is co-signed with US 202 starting in Avon and continuing north to the state line. Route description Route 10 begins at a diamond interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95) as Ella T. Grasso Boulevard in The Hill neighborhood in the city of New Haven, New Haven County. Ella T. Grasso Boulevard continues west as a four-lane undivided, municipally-maintained street to a T junction with Kimberly Avenue, just west of the I-95 interchange and east of the West Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is List of municipalities in Connecticut, the third largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgeport and Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford, the largest city in the South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, and the principal municipality of Greater New Haven metropolitan area, which had a total population of 864,835 in 2020. New Haven was one of the first Planned community, planned cities in the U.S. A year after its founding by English Puritans in 1638, eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four Grid plan, grid, creating the "Nine Square Plan". The central common block is New Haven Green, the New Haven Green, a square at the center of Downtown New Haven. The Green is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avon, CT
Avon ( ) is a town in the Farmington Valley region of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. As of 2020, the town had a population of 19,795. History At the end of the last Ice Age, 12,400 years BP of the Younger Dryas, nomadic peoples built a campsite adjacent to the river that would become known as the Farmington River. They were apparently the first people to populate the region that would become known as southern New England, including the region that would become Avon. Over the Paleoindian period the site was revisted multiple times by other nomadic peoples until it gradually became buried by sediment from the river's occasional flooding. In the winter of 2019, the campsite remains were excavated in Avon, along with stone tools and artifacts constructed from materials in neighboring regions. Avon was settled by Europeans in 1645 and was originally a part of neighboring Farmington. In 1750, the parish of Northington was established in the northern part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgewood Park Historic District
Edgewood Historic District is a historic district located in the west-central portion of New Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. A predominantly residential area roughly bisected by Edgewood Avenue, a broad boulevard which features a large central esplanade and forms the principal east-west artery through the heart of the district. The area includes 232 contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ..., 4 other contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. Most of these were built between about 1888 and 1900, and represent the city's first neighborhood planned under the tenets of the City Beautiful movement. They are generally either Queen Anne or Colonial Revival in style, and are set (especia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby, Connecticut
Derby is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, approximately west-northwest of New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven. It is located in southwest Connecticut at the confluence of the Housatonic River, Housatonic and Naugatuck River, Naugatuck rivers. It shares borders with the cities of Ansonia, Connecticut, Ansonia to the north and Shelton, Connecticut, Shelton to the southwest, and the towns of Orange, Connecticut, Orange to the south, Seymour, Connecticut, Seymour to the northwest, and Woodbridge, Connecticut, Woodbridge to the east. The city is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 12,325 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is the smallest city in Connecticut by area, at . Derby was settled in 1642 as an Indian trading post under the name Paugasset. It was named after Derby, Derby, England, in 1675. It included what are now Ansonia, Seymour, Oxford, Connecticut, Oxford, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale Bowl
The Yale Bowl Stadium is a college football stadium in the northeast United States, located in New Haven, Connecticut, on the border of West Haven, Connecticut, West Haven, about 1½ miles (2½ km) west of the main campus of Yale University. The home of the Yale Bulldogs football, Yale Bulldogs of the Ivy League, it opened in 1914 with 70,896 Seating capacity, seats; renovations have reduced its current capacity to 61,446, still making it the second largest NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, FCS stadium, behind Tennessee State Tigers football, Tennessee State's Nissan Stadium (Nashville), Nissan Stadium, and the largest on-campus FCS stadium that is an automatic qualifying conference for the NCAA Division I Football Championship, FCS Playoffs, which the Ivy League started participating in since 2025. The Yale Bowl inspired the design and naming of the Rose Bowl (stadium), Rose Bowl, from which is derived the name of college football's post-season games (bowl games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut Department Of Transportation
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (officially referred to as CTDOT, occasionally ConnDOT, and CDOT in rare instances) is responsible for the development and operation of highways, Rail transport, railroads, mass transit systems, ports and waterways in Connecticut. Connecticut Department of Transportation. Retrieved on November 12, 2009. "Connecticut Department of Transportation 2800 Berlin Turnpike Newington CT 06111" CTDOT manages and maintains the List of State Routes in Connecticut, state highway system. It oversees the Shore Line East and Hartford Line commuter rail systems under the CTrail brand, and owns the Connecticut section of the New Haven Line used by Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak Northeast Corridor services. CTDOT also oversees the CTtransit bus system, as well as the CTfastrak bus rapid transit service. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut Route 34
Route 34 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Route 34 is long, and extends from Newtown near I-84 to Route 10 in New Haven. The highways connects the New Haven and Danbury areas via the Lower Naugatuck River Valley. The portion of the route between New Haven and Derby was an early toll road known as the Derby Turnpike. It formerly ran through downtown New Haven on the Oak Street Connector until the early 2020s. Route description Route 34 begins as two-lane Berkshire Road in the Sandy Hook section of the town of Newtown, as a continuation of Washington Avenue. The road crosses under I-84 after a tenth of a mile, then intersects after another with Wasserman Way (SSR 490), which leads to ramps to/from I-84 at Exit 11. The road then heads east towards the Stevenson section of the town of Monroe, where the road name changes to Roosevelt Drive at the town line. After intersecting Route 111 (leading to Monroe center), Route 34 crosses the Housatonic Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West River (neighborhood)
West River is an official neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The neighborhood covers the part of the city east of the West River (boundary with the city of West Haven) and south of Chapel Street. Official planning maps run the eastern and southern boundaries run along Day Street, Legion Avenue, Winthrop Avenue, and Davenport Avenue. The neighborhood is bounded by the Edgewood (to the north), Dwight (north and east), and Hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ... (south) neighborhoods. The neighborhood includes West River Memorial Park and Evergreen Cemetery. The Hospital of St. Raphael is also included within the official neighborhood planning area. External linksWest River planning map of City of New Haven Neighborhoods in New Haven, Connect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)
Evergreen Cemetery is located in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded by some of New Haven's most prominent citizens in 1848. Evergreen Cemetery is a non-sectarian, non-profit organization that is managed by the Association's board of trustees. Notable burials * Hobart B. Bigelow, Governor of Connecticut (1881–1883) * Edward Bouchet, first PhD recipient of African descent in the United States * Chauncey B. Brewster, Episcopal clergyman ( Bishop of Connecticut, 1899−1928) * Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of Connecticut (1931–1939) and Professor of English at Yale University * Edwin S. Greeley, Civil War general * John Haberle (1856–1933), trompe-l'œil painter * Bronisław Malinowski, social anthropologist * William Chester Minor – lexicographer and key contributor to the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. * John Addison Porter, chemistry professor at Yale University. * John Addison Porter, journalist, and first Secretary to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Corridor
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railroad line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States. Owned primarily by Amtrak, it runs from Boston in the north to Washington, D.C., in the south, with major stops in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven, Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Newark, Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington, and Baltimore. The NEC is roughly paralleled by Interstate 95 for most of its length. Carrying more than 2,200 trains a day, it is the busiest passenger rail line in the United States by ridership and service frequency. The corridor is used by many Amtrak trains, including the high-speed ''Acela'' (formerly ''Acela Express''), intercity trains, and several Long-distance Amtrak routes, long-distance trains. Most of the corridor also has frequent Commuter rail in North America, commuter rail service, operated by the MBTA Commuter Rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United States, contiguous U.S. states and three Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian provinces. ''Amtrak'' is a portmanteau of the words ''America'' and ''track.'' Founded in 1971 as a Quasi-corporation, quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail routes, Amtrak receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit corporation, for-profit organization. The company's headquarters is located one block west of Washington Union Station, Union Station in Washington, D.C. Amtrak is headed by a Board of Directors, two of whom are the United States Secretary of Transportation, secretary of transportation and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amtrak, while the other eight members are nominated to serve a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Haven Line
The New Haven Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Metro-North Railroad in the U.S. states of New York (state), New York and Connecticut. Running from New Haven, Connecticut, to New York City, the New Haven Line joins the Harlem Line in Mount Vernon, New York, and continues south to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The New Haven Line carries 125,000 passengers every weekday and 39 million passengers a year. The busiest intermediate station is , with 8.4 million passengers, or 21% of the line's ridership. The line was originally part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, forming the southern leg of the New Haven's main line. It is spot color, colored red on Metro-North public transport timetable, timetables and system maps, and stations on the line have red trim. The red color code, color-coding is a nod to the red paint used in the New Haven's paint scheme for much of the last decade of its history. The section from Grand Central to the New York-Connect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
