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Making a Name

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There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953), Rollin G. Osterweis writes that the reasoning behind our city’s name, first codified as “Newhaven” in 1640, “lie[s] buried with those who chose it.” But […]

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