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15 Best Things to Do in New Haven (Indiana)

Just east of Fort Wayne, New Haven is a city that owes its early development to the Wabash and Erie Canal, which linked the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico as early as the 1840s. Before long the waterway was succeeded by the railroads, and you take a peek at the area’s marvelous steam …

Study a map of New Haven and you’ll see a four-by-four grid at its heart, dating from 1638 when this was the first planned city in America. Since 1701 New Haven’s story has been intertwined with that of Yale University, the Collegiate Gothic campus of which is scattered across downtown. Being a university town, New …