New Haven is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,683 at the 2020 census. In addition to the town center, New Haven contains the communities of Belden (sometimes called Belden Falls), Brooksville, New Haven Junction and New Haven Mills.

History

In July 1830, New Haven was heavily affected by the Great Freshet of 1830. Floodwaters along the New Haven River destroyed bridges, mills, and homes, and fourteen residents were reported killed.

Geography

New Haven is located in north-central Addison County, in the Champlain Valley. It is bordered by Ferrisburgh and Monkton to the north, Bristol to the east, Middlebury to the south, Weybridge to the southwest, and Waltham to the northwest. The town of Addison, west of Weybridge and Waltham, touches New Haven at one corner.

Otter Creek, one of the longest rivers in Vermont, forms part of the town's southwest border, with falls at Belden and Huntington Falls. The New Haven River, rising to the east in the Green Mountains, flows into Otter Creek at Brooksville.

U.S. Route 7 runs north-south through the town, connecting Vergennes and Middlebury. Vermont Route 17 crosses Route 7 at New Haven Junction and runs east into Bristol and west to Addison and the Crown Point Bridge over Lake Champlain into New York.

According to the United States Census Bureau, New Haven has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.84%, is water.

Demographics

thumb|The [[Brooksville Advent Church on Dog Team Road just off of US Route 7]]

As of the census

  • Wolcott Turner Brooks, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
  • Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, founder of Grinnell, Iowa, and benefactor of Grinnell College
  • Homer Hulbert, missionary and activist for Korean independence
  • Curtis M. Lampson, fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable
  • Robert Bruce Langdon, Minnesota State Senator and businessman
  • Edward Pier, Wisconsin State Senator
  • Royal T. Sprague, 11th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California
  • Allen R. Sturtevant, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court

References

  • Town of New Haven official website