West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is located upon the coast of Long Island Sound. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 55,584.

Settled in 1648, West Haven (then known as West Farms) was a allowance of the original New Haven Colony. In 1719, it became the cut off parish of West Haven, but was yet officially a part of New Haven until 1822.

During the American Revolution, West Haven was the frequent foundation and arrival reduction for raiding parties upon both sides of the war. On July 5, 1779, the British invaded New Haven Harbor and came stuck in West Haven and East Haven. Thomas Painter, a teenaged militiaman watching for the not far away off from British ships while standing atop Savin Rock, is depicted upon the city seal. The main want ad street, Campbell Avenue, is named for British Adjutant William Campbell, at the epoch an ensign in the Third Guards, who rescued the Reverend Noah Williston, the local Congregational minister and outspoken revolutionary, from bodily bayoneted by British and Hessian troopers, after he broke his leg irritating to run off his captors. Campbell later ordered the soldiers to incite the minister back up to the parsonage and had the regimental surgeon set his leg. Campbell is also attributed with keeping the troops in reasonably great order during their march through the village and reportedly had two soldiers arrested after a local girl accused them of stealing her jewelry. Campbell was killed hours vanguard atop Allingtown Hill upon his exaggeration to New Haven by a local farmer-turned defender. Campbell is buried in the Allingtown section of town off Prudden Street. Patriot victims of the hostility are buried in the Christ Church and First Society Cemetery. A historical headstone marks Campbell’s approximate gravesite and is maintained by the West Haven Historical Society.

While West Haven another time attempted to incorporate as its own town in 1784, that attempt failed, primarily due to the protests of adjoining Milford, which opposed North Milford becoming allocation of the supplementary town. West Haven and North Milford tried another time in 1786 and 1787 once the same result. The two finally allied to become Orange (incorporated as a town in 1822). In 1921, West Haven split from Orange to become a remove town. It was incorporated as a city in 1961 and is known as “Connecticut’s Youngest City”, although it is then one of the state’s oldest settlements.