New Haven, Michigan

New Haven is a village in Lenox Township within Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

The settlement was originally called "New Baltimore Station" because of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad depot located there that did its main commerce with the village of New Baltimore, on Anchor Bay of Lake St. Clair and at the other end of the New Haven/Romeo plank road (also known as the Ashley/Romeo Plank Road) that served the area.

With rounded windows in the Italianate style, it was similar to the Smiths Creek depot that is now in Greenfield Village.

New Haven received its first post office on January 6, 1838, and Charles B. Matthews was the postmaster.

New Haven is the largest incorporated area in Lenox Township of Macomb County.

By around 1875, early industries in the village of New Haven included a general store, a sawmill, an iron foundry, a creamery, hardware store, a roller place that made flour, a farm supply business, two doctors, three flour, seed, and feed businesses, two garages to repair carriages and machinery of the day, a grocery and meat shop, a dry goods store, a drug store, a cooper (barrel) shop, two blacksmiths, two shoe and boot stores, a harness shop, a stove shop, two wagon shops, a livery stable, and a hotel chiefly known as the Graustark Hotel.

By the early 1900s, New Haven had electricity produced in a power house located on the north side of Ann Street, owned by Frank Phelps, also the owner of one of the first motorcars in the village.

He had the dynamo that produced enough electricity to light the whole village located in the back of his building, originally called the Old Power House.

In the front of the building he sold ice cream, candy and other items such as oyster stew.

He would use a large screen secured between two poles to project silent films (with phonograph accompaniment) to the townspeople.

In the 1940s, there was the New Haven Herald, eventually purchased by the Anchor Bay Beacon of New Baltimore.

In 2017, New Haven High School won a Michigan championship basketball game.

[1] The Salt River passes through the east side of the village, flowing south to Lake St. Clair at Point Lakeview.

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