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id="toc-Musical_instruments_including_player_pianos" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Musical_instruments_including_player_pianos"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.5</span> <span>Musical instruments including player pianos</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Musical_instruments_including_player_pianos-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Graphic_arts_innovation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Graphic_arts_innovation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.6</span> <span>Graphic arts innovation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Graphic_arts_innovation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hollywood_connection_(1937–1950)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hollywood_connection_(1937–1950)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.7</span> <span>Hollywood connection (1937–1950)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hollywood_connection_(1937–1950)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy_of_Meriden's_grand_manufacturing_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy_of_Meriden's_grand_manufacturing_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.8</span> <span>Legacy of Meriden's grand manufacturing era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy_of_Meriden's_grand_manufacturing_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-WWII–1970s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#WWII–1970s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>WWII–1970s</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-WWII–1970s-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1980s–present" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1980s–present"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>1980s–present</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1980s–present-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Geography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Geography subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Principal_communities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Principal_communities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Principal communities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Principal_communities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Demographics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Demographics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Political_affiliation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_affiliation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Political affiliation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_affiliation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arts_and_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arts_and_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Arts and culture</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Arts_and_culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Arts and culture subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Arts_and_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Points_of_interest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Points_of_interest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Points of interest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Points_of_interest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Education-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Education subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Public_elementary_schools_(K–5)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_elementary_schools_(K–5)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Public elementary schools (K–5)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_elementary_schools_(K–5)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Middle_schools_(6–8)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Middle_schools_(6–8)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Middle schools (6–8)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Middle_schools_(6–8)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-High_schools" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#High_schools"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>High schools</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-High_schools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Media</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.5</span> <span>Politics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.6</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA" title="مریدن، کانتیکت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مریدن، کانتیکت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(lungsod_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Connecticut)" title="Meriden (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, Connecticut) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Meriden (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA" title="مریدن، کنتیکت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مریدن، کنتیکت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86_(%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A9%D8%AA)" title="مريدن (کنتيکت) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="مريدن (کنتيکت)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BD_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Меридэн (Коннектикут) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Меридэн (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BD_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Меридэн (Коннектикут) – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Меридэн (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a 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(کنتیکت) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="مریدن (کنتیکت)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8,_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%9F" title="मेरिडेन, कनेक्टिकट – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="मेरिडेन, कनेक्टिकट" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3_(%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%81%E3%82%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E5%B7%9E)" title="メリデン (コネチカット州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="メリデン (コネチカット州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Мериден (Коннектикут) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Мериден (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden_(Connecticut)" title="Meriden (Connecticut) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Meriden (Connecticut)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82)" title="Мериден (Коннектикут) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мериден (Коннектикут)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_Connecticut" title="Meriden, Connecticut – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Meriden, Connecticut" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82)" title="Мериден (Конектикат) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Мериден (Конектикат)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" 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class="category">City</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow ib-settlement-official"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">City of Meriden</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriden,_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg/280px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg/420px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg/560px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_City_Hall_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">City Hall, Meriden</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style 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Connecticut">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_Central_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">South Central CT</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (town)</th><td class="infobox-data">1806</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (city)</th><td class="infobox-data">1867</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consolidated</th><td class="infobox-data">1922</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Council-manager" class="mw-redirect" title="Council-manager">Council-manager</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • City Manager</th><td class="infobox-data">Brian Daniels</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • City Leaders</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left; border:none; padding:0;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List of CLs</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Kevin M. Scarpati (<abbr title="Unaffiliated">U</abbr>), Mayor</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Bruce A. Fontanella (D), Dep. Mayor</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Sonya Jelks (D), Majority Leader</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Larue A. Graham (D), Dep. Maj. Leader</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Michael S. Rohde (D), Dep. Maj. Leader</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Dan Brunet (R), Minority Leader</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Bob Williams, Jr. (<abbr title="We the People Party">W</abbr>), Dep. Min. Leader</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Michael Carabetta (R)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Chad Cardillo (D)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Yvette Cortez (D)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Ray R. Ouellet (R)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Joseph Scaramuzzo (D)</span></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span class="nowrap">Michael Zakrzewski (R)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2019_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2019-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">24.16 sq mi (62.58 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">23.80 sq mi (61.64 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0.36 sq mi (0.94 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">177 ft (54 m)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-census2020_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2020-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">60,850</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">2,557/sq mi (987.2/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%80%93_05:00" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC– 05:00">UTC– 05:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%80%93_04:00" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC– 04:00">UTC– 04:00</a> (Eastern)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ZIP Codes</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">06450–06451</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_203_and_475" title="Area codes 203 and 475">203/475</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Information Processing Standard">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">09-46450</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">0208834</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Airport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meriden_Markham_Municipal_Airport" title="Meriden Markham Municipal Airport">Meriden Markham Airport</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major highways</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Interstate_91_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 91 in Connecticut"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/I-91.svg/25px-I-91.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/I-91.svg/38px-I-91.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/I-91.svg/50px-I-91.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Interstate_691_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 691 in Connecticut"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/I-691.svg/25px-I-691.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/I-691.svg/38px-I-691.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/I-691.svg/50px-I-691.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_15" title="Connecticut Route 15"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Connecticut_Highway_15.svg/25px-Connecticut_Highway_15.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Connecticut_Highway_15.svg/38px-Connecticut_Highway_15.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Connecticut_Highway_15.svg/50px-Connecticut_Highway_15.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_66" title="Connecticut Route 66"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Connecticut_Highway_66.svg/25px-Connecticut_Highway_66.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Connecticut_Highway_66.svg/38px-Connecticut_Highway_66.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Connecticut_Highway_66.svg/50px-Connecticut_Highway_66.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Commuter_rail" title="Commuter rail">Commuter rail</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/25px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/38px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Amtrak_logo_2.svg/50px-Amtrak_logo_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="672" data-file-height="280" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hartford_Line" title="Hartford Line"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Hartford_Line_logo.png/25px-Hartford_Line_logo.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Hartford_Line_logo.png/38px-Hartford_Line_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Hartford_Line_logo.png/50px-Hartford_Line_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="288" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.meridenct.gov">www<wbr />.meridenct<wbr />.gov</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Meriden</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɛər/: 'are' in 'bare'">ɛər</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">MAIR</span>-ə-din</i></a>) is a city in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven_County,_Connecticut" title="New Haven County, Connecticut">New Haven County, Connecticut</a>, United States, located halfway between the regional cities of <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>. The city is part of the <a href="/wiki/South_Central_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">South Central Connecticut Planning Region</a>. In 2020, the population of the city was 60,850.<sup id="cite_ref-census2020_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2020-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg/220px-Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg/330px-Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg/440px-Solomon_Goffe_House_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Solomon Goffe House</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg/220px-MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg/330px-MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg/440px-MeridenCTBritanniaCoFactory1881.jpg 2x" data-file-width="595" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Meriden_Britannia_Company" title="Meriden Britannia Company">Meriden Britannia</a> electro-gold and silverplating factory, 1881</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meriden was originally a part of the neighboring town of <a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford</a>. It was granted a separate meetinghouse in 1727, became a <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">town</a> in 1806 with over 1,000 residents. Meriden was incorporated as a city in 1867, with just under 9,000 residents. It was once proposed as the Connecticut state capital.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was named for the village of <a href="/wiki/Meriden,_West_Midlands" title="Meriden, West Midlands">Meriden, West Midlands</a>, England, near Birmingham. </p><p>The oldest house in town still standing, built by Solomon Goffe in 1711, became a museum in 1986. The building is the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Goffe_House" title="Solomon Goffe House">Solomon Goffe House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The grave of Winston Churchill's great-great-great maternal grandfather, Timothy Jerome, can be seen today at what is now called "Burying Ground 1720" (Google Maps: <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Meriden,_Connecticut&params=41.522877_N_72.787707_W_"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°31′22″N</span> <span class="longitude">72°47′16″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.522877°N 72.787707°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.522877; -72.787707</span></span></span></a></span></span>) at the juncture of Dexter Avenue and Lydale Place. At the time the location was known as "Buckwheat Hill", and overlooked the salt-making estate for which Jerome had received a royal grant.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timothy Jerome's son, Samuel, is the great-great-grandfather of <a href="/wiki/Jennie_Jerome" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennie Jerome">Jennie Jerome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>'s mother.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century_to_World_War_II">19th century to World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 19th century to World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg/220px-PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg/330px-PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg/440px-PostcardMeridenCTAerialView1914.jpg 2x" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="377" /></a><figcaption>Meriden, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1914</span></figcaption></figure> <p>In the second half of the 1800s, Meriden became a manufacturing center of note, with several companies forming, or relocating to the city, involved in the production of mainly silver, lamps and metalware, glassware, guns, and musical instruments. A substantial number of design and technology patents were secured.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Silver_and_cutlery">Silver and cutlery</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Silver and cutlery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For silver, the numerous companies included the <a href="/wiki/Meriden_Britannia_Company" title="Meriden Britannia Company">Meriden Britannia Company</a> (a predecessor of the <a href="/wiki/International_Silver_Company" title="International Silver Company">International Silver Company</a> with corporate HQ in Meriden),<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meriden earned the nickname "Silver City", due to the large number of silver manufacturers, and the International Silver Co. continued production until the early 1980s. Along with the silver companies, other producers of cutlery included the Meriden Cutlery Co. and Miller Bros. Cutlery.<sup id="cite_ref-historical_Meriden_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historical_Meriden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1876, the Meriden Britannia Company made significant efforts at the <a href="/wiki/Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Centennial Exposition</a> in Philadelphia, and won the First place medal for plated wares. According to the Sotheby's auction house, "The publicity of the award and the impression the firm made on the fair's 8 million visitors was continued by the catalogues and other intensive marketing; by the end of the 1870s Meriden Britannia Co. was considered the largest silverware company in the world."<sup id="cite_ref-expo1876Sotheby_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-expo1876Sotheby-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A key design attributed to launching the company and the town's international name was the <i>Buffalo Hunt</i> with a smaller edition in the White House collection, Washington, DC. For some time the original <i>Buffalo Hunt</i> sculpture went missing, and in a shocking report by Bailey Wright in 2018, it was learned that it was recently 'missing' actually in Meriden.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lamps_and_metalware">Lamps and metalware</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lamps and metalware"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For lamps and metalware, the companies with national and international markets included the <a href="/wiki/Edward_Miller_%26_Co" title="Edward Miller & Co">Edward Miller & Co</a> / Miller Company (1844–stopped manufacturing lighting <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1980</span>),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Parker_Company" title="Charles Parker Company">Charles Parker Company</a>, <a href="/wiki/Handel_Company" title="Handel Company">Handel Company</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Bradley_%26_Hubbard_Manufacturing_Company" title="Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company">Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company</a> (1852–1940), which also was widely known for producing metal-based products like decorative tables and andirons. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Glassware">Glassware</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Glassware"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For glassware, the companies included the C.F. Monroe Company (1892–1916).<sup id="cite_ref-Monroe-Toledo_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monroe-Toledo-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Meriden Flint Glass Company (1876–1892),<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-historical_Meriden_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historical_Meriden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kitchen_appliances_and_guns">Kitchen appliances and guns</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Kitchen appliances and guns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Manning,_Bowman_%26_Co." title="Manning, Bowman & Co.">Manning, Bowman & Co.</a> (1849–1945) centered its production in Meriden, and into the early 20th century became a nationally known producer of small electrical appliances and chrome ware.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meriden was also the site of the production of <a href="/wiki/Parker_Bros." title="Parker Bros.">Parker Brothers (guns)</a>, widely-known and traded by firearms enthusiasts. From 1905 to 1918, the <a href="/wiki/Meriden_Firearms_Co." title="Meriden Firearms Co.">Meriden Firearms Co.</a> manufactured small arms from 1905 to 1918. The stock was owned by <a href="/wiki/Sears" title="Sears">Sears, Roebuck & Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Musical_instruments_including_player_pianos">Musical instruments including player pianos</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Musical instruments including player pianos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Internationally known companies Wilcox and White and the <a href="/wiki/Aeolian_Company" title="Aeolian Company">Aeolian Company</a> were involved in the production of musical instruments north of the downtown area at Tremont and Cambridge Streets.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Aeolian Company grew quickly forming production sites in other places and developed a music hall in New York. (The largest holder today of instruments and music rolls by the two companies is the Pianola Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.)<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Graphic_arts_innovation">Graphic arts innovation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Graphic arts innovation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meriden also was an important site for graphic arts innovation. In 1888, the <a href="/wiki/Meriden_Gravure_Company" title="Meriden Gravure Company">Meriden Gravure Company</a> (in Meriden 1888–1989) was founded by Charles Parker and James F. Allen, and continued a previous printing operation by Parker. The company developed an expertise in high quality image reproduction, which initially was driven by the needs of the silver industry.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the wealth of entrepreneurs during this time, several mansions and houses of note were built, particularly on Broad Street.<sup id="cite_ref-WilcoxMansion_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WilcoxMansion-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of political and historical note, on March 7, 1860, Abraham Lincoln spoke in Meriden seeking the Republican presidential nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriden,_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg/220px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg/330px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg/440px-Meriden%2C_CT_-_Masjid_al_Rawdah_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Isaac C. Lewis mansion (1868). Since 1950, the building has been used for other purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2012, it has been a mosque.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg/170px-Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg/255px-Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg/340px-Meriden_city_hall_July_2015b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Meriden City Hall (1907) with Civil War monument in the foreground. This building replaced two previous designs (1869–1889 and 1889–1904, the latter destroyed by fire).<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>For public places, <a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Park_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Hubbard Park (Meriden, Connecticut)">Hubbard Park</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Hills" title="Hanging Hills">Hanging Hills</a> was financed by Walter Hubbard (of the Bradley & Hubbard company). The design for the park was originally conceived by Hubbard in consultation with the Olmsted Brothers, sons of <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a>, America's foremost landscape architect. In 1900, <a href="/wiki/Castle_Craig" title="Castle Craig">Castle Craig</a> on a peak was dedicated in the park.<sup id="cite_ref-HubbardPark1_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HubbardPark1-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1903, the <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Memorial_Library" title="Curtis Memorial Library">Curtis Memorial Library</a>, across from Meriden's city hall, was opened.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hollywood_connection_(1937–1950)"><span id="Hollywood_connection_.281937.E2.80.931950.29"></span>Hollywood connection (1937–1950)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hollywood connection (1937–1950)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1937 until 1947, the <a href="/wiki/International_Silver_Company" title="International Silver Company">International Silver Company</a> sponsored the <a href="/wiki/Silver_Theater_(radio_program)" title="Silver Theater (radio program)">Silver Theater</a>, a national radio program broadcast via CBS in Hollywood. The radio program featured many Hollywood actors and actresses of the time like Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Over 200 programs were produced.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1937–1945</span>, several Hollywood stars, including <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck" title="Barbara Stanwyck">Barbara Stanwyck</a>, endorsed the company's 1847 Rogers Bros. silverware in print advertisements in LIFE magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After World War II, in 1949–1950, <a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Theatre" title="The Silver Theatre">The Silver Theatre</a> was brought to television and broadcast on CBS, also with the International Silver Company as the sponsor. Guest stars included <a href="/wiki/Eva_Gabor" title="Eva Gabor">Eva Gabor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Hunter" title="Kim Hunter">Kim Hunter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Legacy_of_Meriden's_grand_manufacturing_era"><span id="Legacy_of_Meriden.27s_grand_manufacturing_era"></span>Legacy of Meriden's grand manufacturing era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legacy of Meriden's grand manufacturing era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A few thousand designs from this manufacturing era from Meriden are in museums and historical societies across the United States and into Europe, Australia and New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-historical_Meriden_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historical_Meriden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Design objects from this era from Meriden have also been included in over 200 national and international exhibitions and expositions since the 1850s.<sup id="cite_ref-historical_Meriden_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historical_Meriden-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1930s tea urn by <a href="/wiki/Eliel_Saarinen" title="Eliel Saarinen">Eliel Saarinen</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Wilcox_Silver_Plate_Co." title="Wilcox Silver Plate Co.">Wilcox Silver Plate Co.</a> / <a href="/wiki/International_Silver_Company" title="International Silver Company">International Silver Company</a>, Meriden, is the one design exhibited most and most published in design books as an international Modern design icon.<sup id="cite_ref-exhibitions_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-exhibitions-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some comparatively recent examples of Meriden designs in exhibitions include <i>In pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> in New York (1986–1987),<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and more recently, <i>Modernism in American Silver: 20th century design</i> (2005–2006) in Dallas, Miami Beach, and Washington, DC, which highlighted downtown Meriden and the area's role as an important center of Modernist silver production.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>19th century Modern</i> (2011–2012) in Brooklyn, designs by the International Silver Company and the <a href="/wiki/Napier_Company_(jewellery)" title="Napier Company (jewellery)">Napier Company</a>, another Meriden manufacturer, were exhibited.<sup id="cite_ref-BHNapierBM_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BHNapierBM-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2016 – November 2017, the city's iconic Napier penguin cocktail shaker was in an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art; the Napier penguin was the lead image of the show.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In summer 2017 alone, historical Meriden area design was exhibited in museum shows in at least Dallas, Newark, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum in New York, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, and the KunstHalle in Berlin, Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-exhibitions_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-exhibitions-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With this level of attention, some special design objects from the era have become sought-after collectors items also at auction, sometimes due to their association with the commission or commissioner, or the status of the design, or being in the sought-after Modernism style. For example, a painted glass and metal table lamp by Bradley and Hubbard, (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1920</span>) sold for US$14,950, doubling its estimate, at <a href="/wiki/Christie%27s" title="Christie's">Christie's</a> auction house in New York in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, a 14-inch, International Silver Company cocktail shaker (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1927</span>) sold for US$21,600 tripling its estimate, at Christie's in New York in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Parker gun made for a Russian czar before World War I, but never delivered, was reported to have been sold for US$287,500 in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, a rare Handel lamp sold for US$85,000.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 5–6, 2014 at Sotheby's in London, "Al Capone's cocktail shaker" made by the Meriden International Sterling Company (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1932</span>) achieved over 33 times its estimate with a sale price of GBP50,000 (US$83,250 on the day).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lastly, in 2014, at Sotheby's New York, a rare Paul Lobel-designed coffee service (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1934–1935</span>) produced by the Wilcox Silver Plate Co. / International Silver Company sold for US$377,000.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WWII–1970s"><span id="WWII.E2.80.931970s"></span>WWII–1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: WWII–1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1939, <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong" title="Edwin Howard Armstrong">Edwin Howard Armstrong</a>, a network radio pioneer who invented <a href="/wiki/FM_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="FM radio">FM radio</a>, used West Peak in 1939 for the location of one of the first FM radio broadcasts. His original 70-foot-tall (21 m) radio mast still stands on the peak.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently West Peak is home to six FM broadcast stations, including WNPR,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WWYZ, WKSS, WDRC-FM, WMRQ-FM<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and WHCN. </p><p>During World War II, factories in Meriden worked three shifts (24 hours/day). On March 8, 1944, the War Manpower Commission gave Meriden the designation as "National Ideal War Community", and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Durante" title="Jimmy Durante">Jimmy Durante</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Miller" title="Glenn Miller">Glenn Miller</a> entertained those at the ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to manufacturers that continued operations after World War II, starting in the later 1940s, the Miller Company, Burton Tremaine, Sr. and <a href="/wiki/Emily_Hall_Tremaine" title="Emily Hall Tremaine">Emily Hall Tremaine</a> firmly put Meriden on the international, 20th century art/design map. In December 1947, Meriden became known once again as a site of design innovation, now with Modern art, via the <a href="/wiki/Miller_Company_Collection_of_Abstract_Art" title="Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art">Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art</a> and the organization of a <i>Painting toward architecture</i> exhibition which opened at Hartford's <a href="/wiki/Wadsworth_Atheneum" title="Wadsworth Atheneum">Wadsworth Atheneum</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later travelled to venues in 27 venues across the United States (1947–52). Substantial national media coverage reported on the exhibition. <i>Painting toward architecture</i> is considered one of the important art-design-architecture crossover exhibitions of the 20th century, tabling European influences for usage in the Post-World War II United States.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1950s, the <a href="/wiki/Miller_Company_Collection_of_Abstract_Art" title="Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art">Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art</a> was privatized to "Mr & Mrs Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT" and numerous artworks were lent to hundreds of exhibitions nationally and internationally into the 1970s with this designation.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg/220px-Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg/330px-Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg/440px-Miller-Co.-Philip-Johnson-Addition_6-2015-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Black-and-white Modernist facade of the Miller Company addition, designed by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Johnson" title="Philip Johnson">Philip Johnson</a>, built in 1965.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1965, the Miller Company addition on Center Street was completed. The black-and-white Modernist facade was designed by influential American architect <a href="/wiki/Philip_Johnson" title="Philip Johnson">Philip Johnson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 27, 1976, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> campaigned at city hall and the Latin American Society for the nomination of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> for President of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s–present"><span id="1980s.E2.80.93present"></span>1980s–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1980s–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1981, the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> was present in Meriden, holding various rallies in the first half of the year. At these rallies, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_State_Police" title="Connecticut State Police">Connecticut State Police</a> would protect the KKK from anti-KKK protestors.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a March 21, 1981, rally, where the KKK was showing support for a police officer who killed a Black person, protestors threw rocks at the KKK. Two protesters were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1987, the <a href="/wiki/Miller_Company_Collection_of_Abstract_Art" title="Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art">Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation</a> was founded by the noted art collector that partly worked in Meriden, before her death, with three focus areas: learning disabilities, the arts, and the environment.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The offices were located in downtown Meriden.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2010</span>, the foundation offices were relocated to New Haven, near Yale University.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Franciscan_Sisters_of_the_Eucharist" title="Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist">Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist</a> have their mother house in Meriden, as do the <a href="/wiki/Franciscan_Brothers_of_the_Eucharist" title="Franciscan Brothers of the Eucharist">Franciscan Brothers of the Eucharist</a>. The headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Mountain_Sports" title="Eastern Mountain Sports">Eastern Mountain Sports</a> is located in Meriden. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:South_Mountain.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/South_Mountain.jpg/220px-South_Mountain.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/South_Mountain.jpg/330px-South_Mountain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/South_Mountain.jpg/440px-South_Mountain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="817" data-file-height="571" /></a><figcaption>The Hanging Hills and Hubbard Park, and Meriden below (2003)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg/220px-Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg/330px-Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg/440px-Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Quinnipiac_River" title="Quinnipiac River">Quinnipiac River</a> as it winds through the Quinnipiac River Gorge in South Meriden</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the city has a total area of 24.1 square miles (62.5 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 23.8 square miles (61.5 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km<sup>2</sup>), or 1.66%, is water. </p><p>Meriden is a showcase for a number of prominent peaks of the <a href="/wiki/Metacomet_Ridge" title="Metacomet Ridge">Metacomet Ridge</a>, a mountainous <a href="/wiki/Trap_rock" title="Trap rock">trap rock</a> ridgeline that stretches from <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Sound" title="Long Island Sound">Long Island Sound</a> to nearly the <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> border. Notable peaks in Meriden include the <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Hills" title="Hanging Hills">Hanging Hills</a> (<a href="/wiki/West_Peak_(New_Haven_County,_Connecticut)" title="West Peak (New Haven County, Connecticut)">West Peak</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Peak_(New_Haven_County,_Connecticut)" title="East Peak (New Haven County, Connecticut)">East Peak</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Mountain_(New_Haven_County,_Connecticut)" title="South Mountain (New Haven County, Connecticut)">South Mountain</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cathole_Mountain" title="Cathole Mountain">Cathole Mountain</a>); <a href="/wiki/Lamentation_Mountain" title="Lamentation Mountain">Lamentation Mountain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chauncey_Peak" title="Chauncey Peak">Chauncey Peak</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Besek_Mountain" title="Besek Mountain">Besek Mountain</a>. <a href="/wiki/Castle_Craig" title="Castle Craig">Castle Craig</a>, a city landmark for over a century, was constructed among the Hanging Hills in <a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Park_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Hubbard Park (Meriden, Connecticut)">Hubbard Park</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Quinnipiac_River" title="Quinnipiac River">Quinnipiac River</a> courses through the southwest quadrant of the city, known to area residents as "South Meriden", where it meanders through a gorge lined with several exposed <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brownstone" title="Brownstone">brownstone</a> cliffs. Harbor Brook (originally named Pilgrim Harbor Brook) cuts through the town from the northeast to the southwest before emptying into Hanover Pond, an impoundment on the Quinnipiac River in South Meriden. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Principal_communities">Principal communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Principal communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Meriden Center</li> <li>South Meriden</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_locations_by_per_capita_income" title="List of Connecticut locations by per capita income">List of Connecticut locations by per capita income</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1820_United_States_census" title="1820 United States census">1820</a></th><td>1,309</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>8,893</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>15,540</td><td></td><td>74.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>21,652</td><td></td><td>39.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>24,296</td><td></td><td>12.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>27,265</td><td></td><td>12.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>29,867</td><td></td><td>9.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>38,481</td><td></td><td>28.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>39,494</td><td></td><td>2.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>44,088</td><td></td><td>11.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>51,850</td><td></td><td>17.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>55,959</td><td></td><td>7.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>57,118</td><td></td><td>2.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>59,479</td><td></td><td>4.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>58,244</td><td></td><td>−2.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>60,868</td><td></td><td>4.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>60,850</td><td></td><td>0.0%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>As of the 2010 census, there were 60,868 people in Meriden, with a population density of 2558 persons per square mile. There were 23,922 households (2009–2013). The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.10. Husband-wife households account for 41% of all households. The population under 5 years (2010) was 6.7%, under 18 years (2010) was 23.9%, and 65 years and over was 12.9%. The female population was 51.6% compared to the male population at 48.4% (2010).<sup id="cite_ref-quickfacts_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quickfacts-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The racial makeup of the city in 2010 was 73.5% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 9.7% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">African American</a>, 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 2.1% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.1% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 10.7% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 3.5% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 28.9% of the population. In 2009–2013, 9.7% of the population was foreign-born.<sup id="cite_ref-census2010_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2010-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-quickfacts_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quickfacts-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For 2009–2013, the median household income was $52,590. The per capita income for the city was $26,941. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $188,400. The home ownership rate was 61.8%. The high school graduation or higher rate was 83.6% (age 25+) and the bachelor's degree or higher rate was 19.1% (age 25+), and 14.4% of people were below the poverty line.<sup id="cite_ref-quickfacts_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quickfacts-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_affiliation">Political affiliation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Political affiliation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6">Voter registration and party enrollment as of October 27, 2020<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Party </th> <th>Active voters </th> <th>Inactive voters </th> <th>Total voters </th> <th>Percentage </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#3333FF; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">11,160 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1,572 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">12,732 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">34.34% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E81B23; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">4,946 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">501 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">5,447 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">14.69% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DDDDBB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_voter" title="Independent voter">Unaffiliated</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">15,332 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">3,033 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">18,365 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">49.54% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DDDDBB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td>Minor parties </td> <td style="text-align:center;">478 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">50 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">528 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1.42% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Total </th> <th style="text-align:center;">31,916 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">5,156 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">37,072 </th> <th style="text-align:center;">100% </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until 1980, the city had a Mayor-Council ("strong mayor") structure. The last full-time strong mayor was Walter Evilia, a Republican and a former State Representative. Dana Miller was appointed the first city manager.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The City Charter was last amended in 1994, giving the then largely ceremonial position of mayor more influence over city governance, including appointments to all boards and commissions and other positions within the appointing power of the City Council,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as line-item veto over city budgets.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The current mayor, Kevin Scarpati, became the youngest popularly-elected mayor in the city's history, winning the 2015 election race by 78 votes against mayor Manny Santos, who had been the first Republican elected as mayor in nearly 30 years (the last being Walter Evilia). In 2018, Manny Santos ran an unsuccessful election for U.S. Congress in the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Connecticut's 5th congressional district">5th Congressional House District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city gained notoriety in government and political circles when in 2014, at the urging of newly elected mayor, Manny Santos, plaintiffs sued to remove appointees of boards and commissions and corporation counsel.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, the ruling by the state Supreme Court to vacate the appointments followed that of a lower court order. The appointments had been made by former mayor, Michael Rohde. In its ruling, the court noted, per the city charter, that the city council can appoint a corporation counsel, but only on the recommendation of the mayor, who at the time was Manny Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Arts and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Points_of_interest">Points of interest</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Points of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG/220px-Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG/330px-Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Meriden_West_Main_-_small.JPG 2x" data-file-width="434" data-file-height="282" /></a><figcaption>Looking west from city hall to the Downtown Area, Meriden, CT. The Civil War monument (1873) is to the right, and the <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Hills" title="Hanging Hills">Hanging Hills</a> are in the distance to the right. Photo in 2007.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg/220px-Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg/330px-Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg/440px-Curtis_Memorial_Library_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Memorial_Library" title="Curtis Memorial Library">Curtis Memorial Library</a> building (2007)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg/220px-Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg/330px-Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg/440px-Red-Bridge_South-Meriden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="615" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Red_Bridge_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Red Bridge (Meriden, Connecticut)">Red Bridge</a>, one of no more than fifteen <a href="/wiki/Truss_bridge#Lenticular_truss" title="Truss bridge">lenticular pony truss</a> bridges remaining in Connecticut.<sup id="cite_ref-red-bridge-nhrp_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-red-bridge-nhrp-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Civil War monument (1873) in front of the Meriden City Hall. 158 men from Meriden who died in the war are listed.<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Memorial_Library" title="Curtis Memorial Library">Curtis Memorial Library</a> (1903), which is an example of Neo-Classical architecture and on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building now houses the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giuffrida_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giuffrida Park (page does not exist)">Giuffrida Park</a> offers many opportunities for outdoor recreation, with a variety of hiking trails and a lake.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Historical cemeteries: Meetinghouse Hill Burying Ground (end of Ann Street), Meriden's first burial ground used 1727–1771; and Broad Street Cemetery (402 Broad Street), the second burial ground first used in 1771, includes a Revolutionary War commemoration plaque<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Home National Bank building on Colony Street designed by the prominent, historical American architecture firm <a href="/wiki/McKim,_Mead_%26_White" title="McKim, Mead & White">McKim, Mead & White</a><sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Park_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Hubbard Park (Meriden, Connecticut)">Hubbard Park</a>, about 1800 acres, part of the <a href="/wiki/Hanging_Hills" title="Hanging Hills">Hanging Hills</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Castle_Craig" title="Castle Craig">Castle Craig</a> on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office%E2%80%93Meriden_Main" title="United States Post Office–Meriden Main">Meriden Main Post Office</a> (1907), designed by <a href="/wiki/James_Knox_Taylor" title="James Knox Taylor">James Knox Taylor</a> on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Miller Company addition on Center Street, with black-and-white Modernist facade designed by influential American architect <a href="/wiki/Philip_Johnson" title="Philip Johnson">Philip Johnson</a> in 1965<sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Progress_is..._the_Miller_Company_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Progress_is..._the_Miller_Company-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_Andrews_House" title="Moses Andrews House">Moses Andrews House</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1760</span>), on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Old_Traffic_Tower&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Old Traffic Tower (page does not exist)">Old Traffic Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Bridge_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Red Bridge (Meriden, Connecticut)">Red Bridge</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1890</span>) on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-red-bridge-nhrp_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-red-bridge-nhrp-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Site of the former Jedediah Wilcox mansion (built 1870), 816 Broad Street. Demolished in the late 1960s, a parlor room from the mansion was saved and is exhibited in the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> in New York<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Goffe_House" title="Solomon Goffe House">Solomon Goffe House</a> (1711), on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted%27s_Restaurant" title="Ted's Restaurant">Ted's Restaurant</a>, known for its steamed cheeseburger, a modified version of the cheeseburger, invented in the early 1900s<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Portions of the <a href="/wiki/Mattabesett_Trail" title="Mattabesett Trail">Mattabesett Trail</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Metacomet_Trail" title="Metacomet Trail">Metacomet Trail</a>, both part of the <a href="/wiki/New_England_National_Scenic_Trail" title="New England National Scenic Trail">New England National Scenic Trail</a>, pass through Meriden. Local trails are being developed as the Meriden Linear Trails. Two sections are complete – the 2006-opened <a href="/wiki/Quinnipiac_River_Gorge_Trail" class="mw-redirect" title="Quinnipiac River Gorge Trail">Quinnipiac River Gorge Trail</a> and the 2013-completed Hanover Pond Trail – both of which use the railbed of the abandoned <a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Waterbury_and_Connecticut_River_Railroad" title="Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad">Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meriden_Mall" title="Meriden Mall">Meriden Mall</a></li> <li>Gallery 53, 53 Colony Street, home of the Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:High-School-Meriden.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/High-School-Meriden.JPG/170px-High-School-Meriden.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/High-School-Meriden.JPG/255px-High-School-Meriden.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/High-School-Meriden.JPG/340px-High-School-Meriden.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a><figcaption>Board of Education building, formerly Meriden High School</figcaption></figure> <p>The Meriden Board of Education operates several public schools:<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_elementary_schools_(K–5)"><span id="Public_elementary_schools_.28K.E2.80.935.29"></span>Public elementary schools (K–5)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Public elementary schools (K–5)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>John Barry</li> <li>Benjamin Franklin</li> <li>Nathan Hale</li> <li>Hanover</li> <li>Thomas Hooker</li> <li>Casimir Pulaski</li> <li>Israel Putnam</li> <li>Roger Sherman</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_schools_(6–8)"><span id="Middle_schools_.286.E2.80.938.29"></span>Middle schools (6–8)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Middle schools (6–8)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Lincoln (public)</li> <li>Washington (public)</li> <li>Edison (public)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_schools">High schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: High schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_T_Maloney_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis T Maloney High School">Francis T. Maloney</a> (public)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O.H._Platt_High_School" title="O.H. Platt High School">Orville H. Platt</a> (public)</li> <li>H. C. Wilcox (CT technical high school system)<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><br /> Other schools in the area include the Catholic high schools <a href="/wiki/Xavier_High_School_(Connecticut)" title="Xavier High School (Connecticut)">Xavier High School</a> (boys) and <a href="/wiki/Mercy_High_School_(Connecticut)" title="Mercy High School (Connecticut)">Mercy High School</a> (girls) in neighboring Middletown. The private schools <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Academy" title="Cheshire Academy">Cheshire Academy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Choate_Rosemary_Hall" title="Choate Rosemary Hall">Choate Rosemary Hall</a> are in adjacent Cheshire and Wallingford respectively. </p><p>The former St. Stanislaus Catholic K–8 School, established in 1897 by <a href="/wiki/Polish_Americans" title="Polish Americans">people who immigrated from Poland</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> closed in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At one time <i><a href="/wiki/The_Meriden_Daily_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="The Meriden Daily Journal">The Meriden Daily Journal</a></i> served as the community newspaper. Currently the <i><a href="/wiki/Record-Journal" title="Record-Journal">Meriden Record Journal</a></i> serves the communities of Meriden, Wallingford, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Southington,_Connecticut" title="Southington, Connecticut">Southington</a> and is located on South Broad Street by the Wallingford town line.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Highway">Highway</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Highway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city of Meriden is located on <a href="/wiki/Interstate_91" title="Interstate 91">Interstate 91</a>, which provides access to <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a>. <a href="/wiki/Interstate_691" title="Interstate 691">Interstate 691</a> provides access to <a href="/wiki/Interstate_84_(east)" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate 84 (east)">Interstate 84</a> and connects to points west like <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Wilbur_Cross_Parkway" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilbur Cross Parkway">Wilbur Cross Parkway</a> (Connecticut Route 15) travels in a southwestern direction connecting to towns and cities like <a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a>, and towards New York City. The parkway becomes the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Turnpike" title="Berlin Turnpike">Berlin Turnpike</a> (also Connecticut Route 15) on the northern end of Meriden. <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_5" title="U.S. Route 5">U.S. Route 5</a> passes through the city as North and South Broad Street. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass,_December_2017.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG/220px-Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG/330px-Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG/440px-Meriden_station_platforms_and_overpass%2C_December_2017.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption>Meriden Transit Center in 2017</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Railroad">Railroad</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Railroad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Meriden_Transit_Center" title="Meriden Transit Center">Meriden Transit Center</a> is located in downtown Meriden on the <a href="/wiki/New_Haven%E2%80%93Springfield_Line" title="New Haven–Springfield Line">New Haven–Springfield Line</a>, which runs between cities of <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> and <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield</a> via <a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>. It is served by <a href="/wiki/CT_Rail" title="CT Rail">CT Rail</a> <a href="/wiki/Hartford_Line" title="Hartford Line">Hartford Line</a> commuter rail service, as well as <a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Amtrak_Hartford_Line" title="Amtrak Hartford Line">Hartford Line</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Regional" title="Northeast Regional">Northeast Regional</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Valley_Flyer_(Amtrak_train)" title="Valley Flyer (Amtrak train)">Valley Flyer</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Vermonter_(train)" title="Vermonter (train)">Vermonter</a></i> intercity rail service. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Meriden,_Waterbury_and_Connecticut_River_Railroad" title="Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad">Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad</a> opened between <a href="/wiki/Cromwell,_Connecticut" title="Cromwell, Connecticut">Cromwell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a> via Meriden in 1888–89. Passenger service west of Meriden to Waterbury ended in 1917, while <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Company" title="Connecticut Company">Connecticut Company</a> streetcars used the line between Meriden and <a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a> until 1931. A portion of the line in Meriden remained in use for freight until 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-sne_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sne-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bus">Bus</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Bus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning in 1784, Meriden had a stop on the New Haven-Hartford Stage Coach<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on Route 5 near the intersection of East Main Street. Years later, the same stop served as the bus stop for <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_Lines" title="Greyhound Lines">Greyhound</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Pan_Bus_Lines" title="Peter Pan Bus Lines">Peter Pan</a> buses. Meriden had four daily departures to/from Hartford/<a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, and four daily departures to/from New Haven/New York City daily from the 1970s through 2007, when intercity bus service ceased serving Meriden. </p><p>Meriden is linked to the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut Transit">Connecticut Transit</a> System, Connecticut's extensive public transit bus network. Three bus lines loop throughout the city of Meriden once per hour. The "B" bus route departs the Meriden railroad station for the southern terminus of Kohls Plaza, connecting for New Haven; the "A" bus route departs the rail station for the northern terminus of Meriden Square with connections to <a href="/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut" title="New Britain, Connecticut">New Britain</a> and Hartford; and the east/west "C" bus travels along East Main and West Main Streets, with a handful of departures to Middletown and Waterbury. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Airports">Airports</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Airports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Meriden_Markham_Municipal_Airport" title="Meriden Markham Municipal Airport">Meriden Markham Municipal Airport</a> is the city-owned airport, located 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the city center on the border of South Meriden and <a href="/wiki/Yalesville" class="mw-redirect" title="Yalesville">Yalesville</a>, and serves private and charter planes. <a href="/wiki/Bradley_International_Airport" title="Bradley International Airport">Bradley International Airport</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bradley_International_Airport" title="Bradley International Airport">BDL</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Locks,_Connecticut" title="Windsor Locks, Connecticut">Windsor Locks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tweed_New_Haven_Airport" title="Tweed New Haven Airport">Tweed New Haven Airport</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweed_New_Haven_Airport" title="Tweed New Haven Airport">HVN</a>) in <a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a> are the closest commercial airports to Meriden. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1975, the Meriden Hall of Fame organization has issued recognitions. In the Meriden City Hall, plaques pay tribute to the inductees.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arts_and_humanities">Arts and humanities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Arts and humanities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beau_Billingslea" title="Beau Billingslea">Beau Billingslea</a> (born 1944), actor<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Burr" title="Gary Burr">Gary Burr</a> (born 1952), American musician, songwriter, and record producer, primarily in the <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> genre<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_Cardona" title="Miguel Cardona">Miguel Cardona</a> (born 1975), educator, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Education" title="United States Secretary of Education">United States Secretary of Education</a><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomie_dePaola" title="Tomie dePaola">Tomie dePaola</a> (1934–2020), author and illustrator of over 200 children's books<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Franco_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franco-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_DiNoia" title="Jennifer DiNoia">Jennifer DiNoia</a> (born 1982), singer and stage actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Doerfler" title="Isabella Doerfler">Isabella Doerfler</a> (1883–1954), artist who worked for the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Art_Project" title="Federal Art Project">Federal Arts Project</a><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunning" title="Philip Dunning">Philip Dunning</a> (1889–1968), playwright and theatrical producer<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Addie_C._Strong_Engle" title="Addie C. Strong Engle">Addie C. Strong Engle</a> (1845–1926), author, publisher<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore1893_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore1893-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Homer" title="Ben Homer">Ben Homer</a> songwriter, composer and arranger who composed the tune to the hit song <a href="/wiki/Sentimental_Journey_(song)" title="Sentimental Journey (song)">Sentimental Journey</a><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Hyman" title="Rob Hyman">Rob Hyman</a> (born 1950), rock musician and founding member of <a href="/wiki/The_Hooters" title="The Hooters">The Hooters</a><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Marinelli" title="Joe Marinelli">Joe Marinelli</a> (1957) Actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Henry_Moehlman" title="Conrad Henry Moehlman">Conrad Henry Moehlman</a>, professor of church history and author<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle" title="Rosa Ponselle">Rosa Ponselle</a> (1897–1981), acclaimed opera singer<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_J._Sternberg" title="Charlotte J. Sternberg">Charlotte J. Sternberg</a> (1920–2003), painter<sup id="cite_ref-AskART_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AskART-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science_and_technology">Science and technology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Science and technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Lamberti" title="Vincent Lamberti">Vincent Lamberti</a> (1927–2014), lab researcher whose work resulted in 118 patents, most notably the development of <a href="/wiki/Dove_(toiletries)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dove (toiletries)">Dove</a> soap. He grew up in Meriden, later moving to <a href="/wiki/Upper_Saddle_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Saddle River">Upper Saddle River</a>, New Jersey<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military">Military</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Lacz" title="Kevin Lacz">Kevin Lacz</a> (born 1981), Former United States <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">Navy SEAL</a> who served two tours in the Iraq War. Also an actor, author, public speaker and physician assistant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Phillips" title="Muriel Phillips">Muriel Phillips</a> (1921–2022), <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">US Army</a> nurse in World War II who served in Europe (<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pierce_(soldier)" title="Joseph Pierce (soldier)">Joseph Pierce</a> (1842–1916), <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Corporal" title="Corporal">corporal</a> who was born in China and fought in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Pekoske" title="David Pekoske">David Pekoske</a> (born 1955) Recipient of <a href="/wiki/Homeland_Security_Distinguished_Service_Medal" title="Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal">Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business">Business</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Business"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Yale_(merchant)" title="William Yale (merchant)">William Yale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tin_ware" class="mw-redirect" title="Tin ware">tin ware</a> merchant, largest manufacturer in Meriden in the early 19th century</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Yale" title="Levi Yale">Levi Yale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abolitionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Abolitionist">abolitionist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postmaster" title="Postmaster">postmaster</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">justice of the peace</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Jenkins_(defensive_tackle)" title="John Jenkins (defensive tackle)">John Jenkins</a> (born 1989), National Football League defensive tackle (<a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a>; college football: University of Georgia; Maloney High School, Meriden)<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kid_Kaplan" title="Kid Kaplan">Kid Kaplan</a> (1901–1970), world champion <a href="/wiki/Featherweight" title="Featherweight">featherweight</a> boxer<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Niemiec" title="Al Niemiec">Al Niemiec</a> (1911–1995), Major League Baseball player<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Waslewski" title="Gary Waslewski">Gary Waslewski</a> (born 1941), Major League Baseball player (1967–1972)<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A season 5 episode of the <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Channel" title="Discovery Channel">Discovery Channel</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/A_Haunting" title="A Haunting">A Haunting</a></i>, called "The Uninvited", takes place in Meriden in 2007.</li> <li>The 1989 <a href="/wiki/Robert_De_Niro" title="Robert De Niro">Robert De Niro</a>–starring film <i><a href="/wiki/Jacknife" title="Jacknife">Jacknife</a></i> was shot in Meriden. Several town sites are seen throughout the film, including Castle Craig at <a href="/wiki/Hubbard_Park_(Meriden,_Connecticut)" title="Hubbard Park (Meriden, Connecticut)">Hubbard Park</a>, a historic house on Linsley Avenue, as well as film locations in the greater region.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/32px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/48px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/64px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="330" data-file-height="260" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Connecticut" title="Portal:Connecticut">Connecticut portal</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/New_England_pine_flag.svg/32px-New_England_pine_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/New_England_pine_flag.svg/48px-New_England_pine_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/New_England_pine_flag.svg/64px-New_England_pine_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="432" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:New_England" title="Portal:New England">New England portal</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/COL-city_icon.png/28px-COL-city_icon.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/COL-city_icon.png/42px-COL-city_icon.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/COL-city_icon.png/56px-COL-city_icon.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Cities" title="Portal:Cities">Cities portal</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meriden,_Connecticut&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NYToldfame-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NYToldfame_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bill Ryan (January 21, 1996), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEED61339F932A15752C0A960958260">"What's in a Name? Old Industrial Fame"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2019-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2019_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_09.txt">"2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files"</a>. 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congressional delegations from Connecticut">Delegations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Connecticut" title="Elections in Connecticut">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut#Geography" title="Connecticut">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut#Law_and_government" title="Connecticut">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Connecticut" title="History of Connecticut">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Images_of_Connecticut" title="Category:Images of Connecticut">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Connecticut" title="List of people from Connecticut">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_state_symbols" title="List of Connecticut state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Connecticut" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Connecticut">Tourist attractions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td 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<li><a href="/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Connecticut" title="Political party strength in Connecticut">Party strength</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Connecticut" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Councils of governments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Connecticut" title="Coastal Connecticut">Coastal Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmington_Valley" title="Farmington Valley">Farmington Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_(Connecticut)" title="Gold Coast (Connecticut)">Gold Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Greater Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Greater Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Hartford" title="Greater Hartford">Greater Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">Tri-State area</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_panhandle" title="Connecticut panhandle">Connecticut panhandle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">Greater New Haven</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Valley">Housatonic Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_Hills" title="Litchfield Hills">Litchfield Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Connecticut_River_Valley" title="Lower Connecticut River Valley">Lower Connecticut River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Naugatuck_Valley" title="Central Naugatuck Valley">Central Naugatuck Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_River_Valley" title="Naugatuck River Valley">Naugatuck River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiet_Corner" title="Quiet Corner">Quiet Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Connecticut" title="Southeastern Connecticut">Southeastern Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Planning regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut">Capitol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut">Greater Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Connecticut_River_Valley_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut">Lower Connecticut River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck_Valley_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut">Naugatuck Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Northeastern Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Hills_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut">Northwest Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Central_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">South Central Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Southeastern Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut_Planning_Region,_Connecticut" title="Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut">Western Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford_County,_Connecticut" title="Hartford County, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield County, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Connecticut" title="Middlesex County, Connecticut">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven_County,_Connecticut" title="New Haven County, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London_County,_Connecticut" title="New London County, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolland_County,_Connecticut" title="Tolland County, Connecticut">Tolland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windham_County,_Connecticut" title="Windham County, Connecticut">Windham</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Connecticut">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansonia,_Connecticut" title="Ansonia, Connecticut">Ansonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Connecticut" title="Bristol, Connecticut">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton_(city),_Connecticut" title="Groton (city), Connecticut">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut" title="New Britain, Connecticut">New Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Haven,_Connecticut" title="West Haven, Connecticut">West Haven</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Connecticut">All towns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andover,_Connecticut" title="Andover, Connecticut">Andover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansonia,_Connecticut" title="Ansonia, Connecticut">Ansonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Connecticut" title="Ashford, Connecticut">Ashford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avon,_Connecticut" title="Avon, Connecticut">Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barkhamsted,_Connecticut" title="Barkhamsted, Connecticut">Barkhamsted</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beacon_Falls,_Connecticut" title="Beacon Falls, Connecticut">Beacon Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin,_Connecticut" title="Berlin, Connecticut">Berlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethany,_Connecticut" title="Bethany, Connecticut">Bethany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethel,_Connecticut" title="Bethel, Connecticut">Bethel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethlehem,_Connecticut" title="Bethlehem, Connecticut">Bethlehem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bloomfield,_Connecticut" title="Bloomfield, Connecticut">Bloomfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton,_Connecticut" title="Bolton, Connecticut">Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bozrah,_Connecticut" title="Bozrah, Connecticut">Bozrah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford,_Connecticut" title="Branford, Connecticut">Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater,_Connecticut" title="Bridgewater, Connecticut">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Connecticut" title="Bristol, Connecticut">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookfield,_Connecticut" title="Brookfield, Connecticut">Brookfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_Connecticut" title="Brooklyn, Connecticut">Brooklyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Connecticut" title="Burlington, Connecticut">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canaan,_Connecticut" title="Canaan, Connecticut">Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canterbury,_Connecticut" title="Canterbury, Connecticut">Canterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton,_Connecticut" title="Canton, Connecticut">Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaplin,_Connecticut" title="Chaplin, Connecticut">Chaplin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester,_Connecticut" title="Chester, Connecticut">Chester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton,_Connecticut" title="Clinton, Connecticut">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colchester,_Connecticut" title="Colchester, Connecticut">Colchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colebrook,_Connecticut" title="Colebrook, Connecticut">Colebrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Connecticut" title="Columbia, Connecticut">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall,_Connecticut" title="Cornwall, Connecticut">Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coventry,_Connecticut" title="Coventry, Connecticut">Coventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cromwell,_Connecticut" title="Cromwell, Connecticut">Cromwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darien,_Connecticut" title="Darien, Connecticut">Darien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_River,_Connecticut" title="Deep River, Connecticut">Deep River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham,_Connecticut" title="Durham, Connecticut">Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Granby,_Connecticut" title="East Granby, Connecticut">East Granby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haddam,_Connecticut" title="East Haddam, Connecticut">East Haddam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hampton,_Connecticut" title="East Hampton, Connecticut">East Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hartford,_Connecticut" title="East Hartford, Connecticut">East Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lyme,_Connecticut" title="East Lyme, Connecticut">East Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Windsor,_Connecticut" title="East Windsor, Connecticut">East Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastford,_Connecticut" title="Eastford, Connecticut">Eastford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easton,_Connecticut" title="Easton, Connecticut">Easton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellington,_Connecticut" title="Ellington, Connecticut">Ellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enfield,_Connecticut" title="Enfield, Connecticut">Enfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex,_Connecticut" title="Essex, Connecticut">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmington,_Connecticut" title="Farmington, Connecticut">Farmington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Connecticut" title="Franklin, Connecticut">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury,_Connecticut" title="Glastonbury, Connecticut">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goshen,_Connecticut" title="Goshen, Connecticut">Goshen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granby,_Connecticut" title="Granby, Connecticut">Granby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griswold,_Connecticut" title="Griswold, Connecticut">Griswold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton,_Connecticut" title="Groton, Connecticut">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guilford,_Connecticut" title="Guilford, Connecticut">Guilford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haddam,_Connecticut" title="Haddam, Connecticut">Haddam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Connecticut" title="Hampton, Connecticut">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartland,_Connecticut" title="Hartland, Connecticut">Hartland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harwinton,_Connecticut" title="Harwinton, Connecticut">Harwinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebron,_Connecticut" title="Hebron, Connecticut">Hebron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent,_Connecticut" title="Kent, Connecticut">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killingly,_Connecticut" title="Killingly, Connecticut">Killingly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killingworth,_Connecticut" title="Killingworth, Connecticut">Killingworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Connecticut" title="Lebanon, Connecticut">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ledyard,_Connecticut" title="Ledyard, Connecticut">Ledyard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisbon,_Connecticut" title="Lisbon, Connecticut">Lisbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyme,_Connecticut" title="Lyme, Connecticut">Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison,_Connecticut" title="Madison, Connecticut">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Connecticut" title="Manchester, Connecticut">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield,_Connecticut" title="Mansfield, Connecticut">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Connecticut" title="Marlborough, Connecticut">Marlborough</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlebury,_Connecticut" title="Middlebury, Connecticut">Middlebury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlefield,_Connecticut" title="Middlefield, Connecticut">Middlefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Connecticut" title="Middletown, Connecticut">Middletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe,_Connecticut" title="Monroe, Connecticut">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montville,_Connecticut" title="Montville, Connecticut">Montville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris,_Connecticut" title="Morris, Connecticut">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck, Connecticut">Naugatuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Britain,_Connecticut" title="New Britain, Connecticut">New Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Canaan,_Connecticut" title="New Canaan, Connecticut">New Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="New Fairfield, Connecticut">New Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hartford,_Connecticut" title="New Hartford, Connecticut">New Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Milford,_Connecticut" title="New Milford, Connecticut">New Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newington,_Connecticut" title="Newington, Connecticut">Newington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Connecticut" title="Norfolk, Connecticut">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Branford,_Connecticut" title="North Branford, Connecticut">North Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Canaan,_Connecticut" title="North Canaan, Connecticut">North Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Haven,_Connecticut" title="North Haven, Connecticut">North Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Stonington,_Connecticut" title="North Stonington, Connecticut">North Stonington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Lyme,_Connecticut" title="Old Lyme, Connecticut">Old Lyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Saybrook,_Connecticut" title="Old Saybrook, Connecticut">Old Saybrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_Connecticut" title="Orange, Connecticut">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_Connecticut" title="Oxford, Connecticut">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainfield,_Connecticut" title="Plainfield, Connecticut">Plainfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainville,_Connecticut" title="Plainville, Connecticut">Plainville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Connecticut" title="Plymouth, Connecticut">Plymouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomfret,_Connecticut" title="Pomfret, Connecticut">Pomfret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Connecticut" title="Portland, Connecticut">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Connecticut" title="Preston, Connecticut">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospect,_Connecticut" title="Prospect, Connecticut">Prospect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putnam,_Connecticut" title="Putnam, Connecticut">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redding,_Connecticut" title="Redding, Connecticut">Redding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridgefield,_Connecticut" title="Ridgefield, Connecticut">Ridgefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Hill,_Connecticut" title="Rocky Hill, Connecticut">Rocky Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxbury,_Connecticut" title="Roxbury, Connecticut">Roxbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salem,_Connecticut" title="Salem, Connecticut">Salem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury,_Connecticut" title="Salisbury, Connecticut">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotland,_Connecticut" title="Scotland, Connecticut">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour,_Connecticut" title="Seymour, Connecticut">Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharon,_Connecticut" title="Sharon, Connecticut">Sharon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman,_Connecticut" title="Sherman, Connecticut">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simsbury,_Connecticut" title="Simsbury, Connecticut">Simsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somers,_Connecticut" title="Somers, Connecticut">Somers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Windsor,_Connecticut" title="South Windsor, Connecticut">South Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southbury,_Connecticut" title="Southbury, Connecticut">Southbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southington,_Connecticut" title="Southington, Connecticut">Southington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprague,_Connecticut" title="Sprague, Connecticut">Sprague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stafford,_Connecticut" title="Stafford, Connecticut">Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sterling,_Connecticut" title="Sterling, Connecticut">Sterling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonington,_Connecticut" title="Stonington, Connecticut">Stonington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffield,_Connecticut" title="Suffield, Connecticut">Suffield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomaston,_Connecticut" title="Thomaston, Connecticut">Thomaston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompson,_Connecticut" title="Thompson, Connecticut">Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolland,_Connecticut" title="Tolland, Connecticut">Tolland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union,_Connecticut" title="Union, Connecticut">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon,_Connecticut" title="Vernon, Connecticut">Vernon</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bergen_County,_New_Jersey" title="Bergen County, New Jersey">Bergen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">Bronx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutchess_County,_New_York" title="Dutchess County, New York">Dutchess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Essex County, New Jersey">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunterdon_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hunterdon County, New Jersey">Hunterdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Kings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Litchfield County, Connecticut">Litchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Mercer County, New Jersey">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Middlesex County, New Jersey">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmouth_County,_New_Jersey" title="Monmouth County, New Jersey">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Monroe County, Pennsylvania">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_County,_New_Jersey" title="Morris County, New Jersey">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven_County,_Connecticut" title="New Haven County, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_County,_New_Jersey" title="Ocean County, New Jersey">Ocean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_New_York" title="Orange County, New York">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaic_County,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic County, New Jersey">Passaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pike_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Pike County, Pennsylvania">Pike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putnam_County,_New_York" title="Putnam County, New York">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockland_County,_New_York" title="Rockland County, New York">Rockland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_County,_New_Jersey" title="Somerset County, New Jersey">Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York" title="Suffolk County, New York">Suffolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sussex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Sussex County, New Jersey">Sussex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulster_County,_New_York" title="Ulster County, New York">Ulster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_New_Jersey" title="Union County, New Jersey">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westchester_County,_New_York" title="Westchester County, New York">Westchester</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/125px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/188px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg/250px-Freiheitsstatue_NYC_full.jpg 2x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="461" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Major cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />over 100,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylon,_New_York" title="Babylon, New York">Babylon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookhaven,_New_York" title="Brookhaven, New York">Brookhaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edison,_New_Jersey" title="Edison, New Jersey">Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hempstead,_New_York" title="Hempstead, New York">Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntington,_New_York" title="Huntington, New York">Huntington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islip,_New_York" title="Islip, New York">Islip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakewood_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Lakewood Township, New Jersey">Lakewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hempstead,_New_York" title="North Hempstead, New York">North Hempstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oyster_Bay,_New_York" title="Oyster Bay, New York">Oyster Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithtown,_New_York" title="Smithtown, New York">Smithtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodbridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Woodbridge Township, New Jersey">Woodbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York" title="Yonkers, New York">Yonkers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Cities and towns<br />over 25,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" title="Bayonne, New Jersey">Bayonne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergenfield,_New_Jersey" title="Bergenfield, New Jersey">Bergenfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernards_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bernards Township, New Jersey">Bernards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford,_Connecticut" title="Branford, Connecticut">Branford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brick_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Brick Township, New Jersey">Brick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Bridgewater Township, New Jersey">Bridgewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmel,_New_York" title="Carmel, New York">Carmel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut" title="Cheshire, Connecticut">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton,_New_Jersey" title="Clifton, New Jersey">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cortlandt,_New_York" title="Cortlandt, New York">Cortlandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastchester,_New_York" title="Eastchester, New York">Eastchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="East Brunswick, New Jersey">East Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Orange,_New_Jersey" title="East Orange, New Jersey">East Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Windsor,_New_Jersey" title="East Windsor, New Jersey">East Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Englewood,_New_Jersey" title="Englewood, New Jersey">Englewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewing_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Ewing Township, New Jersey">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fair_Lawn,_New_Jersey" title="Fair Lawn, New Jersey">Fair Lawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lee,_New_Jersey" title="Fort Lee, New Jersey">Fort Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Township,_Somerset_County,_New_Jersey" title="Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey">Franklin Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freehold_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Freehold Township, New Jersey">Freehold Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garfield,_New_Jersey" title="Garfield, New Jersey">Garfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenburgh,_New_York" title="Greenburgh, New York">Greenburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich,_Connecticut" title="Greenwich, Connecticut">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackensack,_New_Jersey" title="Hackensack, New Jersey">Hackensack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamden,_Connecticut" title="Hamden, Connecticut">Hamden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsborough_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Hillsborough Township, New Jersey">Hillsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Howell Township, New Jersey">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Jackson Township, New Jersey">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearny,_New_Jersey" title="Kearny, New Jersey">Kearny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Township,_Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston,_New_Jersey" title="Livingston, New Jersey">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_New_York" title="Long Beach, New York">Long Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Branch,_New_Jersey" title="Long Branch, New Jersey">Long Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahwah,_New_Jersey" title="Mahwah, New Jersey">Mahwah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamaroneck,_New_York" title="Mamaroneck, New York">Mamaroneck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manalapan_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Manalapan Township, New Jersey">Manalapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maplewood,_New_Jersey" title="Maplewood, New Jersey">Maplewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlboro_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Marlboro Township, New Jersey">Marlboro</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Meriden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Middletown Township, New Jersey">Middletown, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middletown,_Orange_County,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Middletown, Orange County, New York">Middletown, NY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford,_Connecticut" title="Milford, Connecticut">Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_Township,_Middlesex_County,_New_Jersey" title="Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montclair,_New_Jersey" title="Montclair, New Jersey">Montclair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olive_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Mount Olive Township, New Jersey">Mount Olive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York" title="Mount Vernon, New York">Mount Vernon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naugatuck,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck, Connecticut">Naugatuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="New Brunswick, New Jersey">New Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Milford,_Connecticut" title="New Milford, Connecticut">New Milford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Rochelle,_New_York" title="New Rochelle, New York">New Rochelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">Newburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="North Brunswick, New Jersey">North Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Bridge_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Old Bridge Township, New Jersey">Old Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_New_Jersey" title="Orange, New Jersey">Orange, NJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossining_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Ossining (town), New York">Ossining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Tree,_New_York" title="Palm Tree, New York">Palm Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramus,_New_Jersey" title="Paramus, New Jersey">Paramus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsippany%E2%80%93Troy_Hills,_New_Jersey" title="Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey">Parsippany–Troy Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaic,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic, New Jersey">Passaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_Amboy,_New_Jersey" title="Perth Amboy, New Jersey">Perth Amboy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piscataway,_New_Jersey" title="Piscataway, New Jersey">Piscataway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plainfield,_New_Jersey" title="Plainfield, New Jersey">Plainfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie, New York">Poughkeepsie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rahway,_New_Jersey" title="Rahway, New Jersey">Rahway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph,_New_Jersey" title="Randolph, New Jersey">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverhead,_New_York" title="Riverhead, New York">Riverhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Rockaway Township, New Jersey">Rockaway Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rye_(town),_New_York" title="Rye (town), New York">Rye (town)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelton,_Connecticut" title="Shelton, Connecticut">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Brunswick,_New_Jersey" title="South Brunswick, New Jersey">South Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratford,_Connecticut" title="Stratford, Connecticut">Stratford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teaneck,_New_Jersey" title="Teaneck, New Jersey">Teaneck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toms_River,_New_Jersey" title="Toms River, New Jersey">Toms River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Connecticut" title="Torrington, Connecticut">Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumbull,_Connecticut" title="Trumbull, Connecticut">Trumbull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_City,_New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey">Union City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Township,_Union_County,_New_Jersey" title="Union Township, Union County, New Jersey">Union Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Wall Township, New Jersey">Wall Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallingford,_Connecticut" title="Wallingford, Connecticut">Wallingford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne,_New_Jersey" title="Wayne, New Jersey">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Haven,_Connecticut" title="West Haven, Connecticut">West Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Orange,_New_Jersey" title="West Orange, New Jersey">West Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Windsor,_New_Jersey" title="West Windsor, New Jersey">West Windsor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westfield,_New_Jersey" title="Westfield, New Jersey">Westfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westport,_Connecticut" title="Westport, Connecticut">Westport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Plains,_New_York" title="White Plains, New York">White Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorktown,_New_York" title="Yorktown, New York">Yorktown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catskill_Mountains" title="Catskill Mountains">Catskills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Jersey" title="Central Jersey">Central Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_Connecticut" title="Coastal Connecticut">Coastal Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Greater Danbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gateway_Region" title="Gateway Region">Greater Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">Greater New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Torrington" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Torrington">Greater Torrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Naugatuck_Valley" title="Central Naugatuck Valley">Greater Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Housatonic Valley">Housatonic Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_Valley" title="Hudson Valley">Hudson Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Shore" title="Jersey Shore">Jersey Shore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfield_Hills" title="Litchfield Hills">Litchfield Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Jersey" title="North Jersey">North Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocono_Mountains" title="Pocono Mountains">Poconos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raritan_River" title="Raritan River">Raritan Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skylands_Region" title="Skylands Region">Skylands Region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Hills" title="Somerset Hills">Somerset Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watchung_Mountains" title="Watchung Mountains">Watchung Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Connecticut">Western Connecticut</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#003884; color: #FF6600;;width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis" title="Northeast megalopolis">Northeast megalopolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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