Interesting Facts

A group of Puritans, led by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, arrived in New Haven in 1638 and bought the land from the Quinnipiack Indians, under the conditions that they would protect the Quinnipiack from neighboring tribes and allow them to remain on a portion of the land.
Hide and seek! In the early 1660's, New Haven's West Rock harbored three of the men responsible for the execution of Charles I while they were pursued by Charles II.
In 1718, a Puritan school known as Yale College was moved from Old Saybrook to New Haven. Today Yale University is New Haven's top employer and brings 550,000 tourists to town each year.
The trial that liberated African captives aboard the infamous Spanish ship, the Amistad, took place in New Haven.
New Haven is often called "the Elm City" for the numerous elm trees that adorned the landscape before most of the trees were wiped out by disease.
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, built the Whitney Arms Company, one of the first factories to mass produce fire arms, on the outskirts of New Haven. Today, the factory houses the Eli Whitney Museum.
For a tasty and nostalgic treat, visit some of the local eateries. You'll want to try an old-fashioned burger served on white bread slices; "apizza," the town's trademark thin-crusted brick oven pizza; and authentic soda fountain drinks.
The lollipop was invented in New Haven in 1892 by George C. Smith.
Musical magic? Three of New Haven's theaters, Long Wharf, Yale Repertory Theater and the Shubert, have received the Tony award and hosted premiers of prestigious shows such as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music.
New Haven is home to the nation's oldest art museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the most extensive collection of British art outside Britain, the Yale Center for British Art.