New Haven Harbor
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New Haven Harbor is an inlet on the north side of Long Island Sound in the state of Connecticut in the United States. The city of New Haven lies on the northern and eastern sides. West Haven is on the west.
The harbor area is an inlet carved by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.
The Quinnipiac and Mill rivers converge and empty into the inlet on its north end. The West River empties into the western end of the harbor (also known as West Haven Harbor).
The harbor is protected from Long Island Sound by a peninsula from its western side, once known as "Little Necke" but now called Lighthouse Point, because of the lighthouse that was constructed on its tip in 1805. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1845 by the current structure, called the Five Mile Point Lighthouse. In July 1779, the peninsula was the scene of an amphibious landing by British troops.
