New England
Connecticut
South Central Connecticut Planning Region

River Street Historic District

The River Street Historic District encompasses a historic industrial area in the Fair Haven section of . Located south of Chapel Street between James Street and Blatchley Avenue, the industrial buildings here date to New Haven's growth as a major industrial center between the American Civil War and World War I, with significant emphasis on metalworking businesses.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: historic district in Connecticut, United States
  • Also known as: “River Street Historic District (New Haven, Connecticut)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include 29th Colored Regiment Monument and Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge.

Memorial
Photo: Blerdlife, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a monument located in Criscuolo Park in , United States. The monument commemorates the soldiers of the 29th Connecticut Infantry Regiment and is located on the grounds of where more than 900 black recruits trained in 1863.

Bridge
Photo: Dannel Malloy, CC BY 2.0.
The , commonly referred to as the Q Bridge by locals, is an extradosed bridge that carries Interstate 95 over the mouth of the in , in the U.S. state of .

Bridge
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The is a crossing of the in . The bridge forms a segment of U.S. Route 1. The Tomlinson Vertical Lift Bridge carries four lanes of traffic across and a single-track freight line owned by the Providence & Worcester Railroad that connects the waterfront with the Northeast Corridor line of Metro North and CSX.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fair Haven and Mill River.

Suburb
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is a in the eastern part of the city of , , between the Mill and Rivers. The northeast section of the neighborhood is also known as Chatham Square.

Neighborhood
is a primarily industrial in the city of , located between the and Fair Haven neighborhoods.

Suburb
is a residential neighborhood in the city of . Originally part of , the neighborhood was voluntarily ceded by East Haven and annexed by the city of New Haven in the 1880s.

River Street Historic District

Latitude
41.30243° or 41° 18′ 9″ north
Longitude
-72.9005° or 72° 54′ 2″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
87H9832X+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 777642197
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
4841517
Wiki­data ID
Q14715102
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “River Street Historic District”. Photo: Emporostheoros, Public domain.