Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
NEW HAVEN COUNTY, situated In the south part of Connecticut, on Long Island sound. Area 540 square miles. Face of the country, undulating and hilly; soil productive. Seat of justice, New Haven. Pop. in 1810, 37,064; in 1820, 39,616; in 1830, 43,848; in 1840, 48,619; in 1850, 65,580. (Fanning's, 1853)