Middletown, Connecticut, USA
1906

Middletown, a city of Connecticut, and one of the capitals of Middlesex co., in Middletown township (town), is pleasantly situated on the right or W. bank of the Connecticut River and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford R., 14 miles S. of Hartford... The more elevated parts of the city are occupied by elegant residences, with fine gardens and highly ornamental grounds. The city contains a court-house, an industrial school for girls, the Berkeley Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal), and the Wesleyan University (Methodist), which was organized in 1831 and had an attendance in 1900-01 of 350 students. Its library contains 60,000 volumes. On a high hill 1 mile SE. of this city are the large and imposing buildings of the State General Hospital for the Insane. Middletown has manufactures of pumps and other hydraulic machinery, woollens, cottons, silk, rubber, plated-ware, hardware, bicycles, automobiles, etc. On the opposite side of the river is Portland, connected by a drawbridge, where the celebrated Portland sandstone is quarried. Middletown was settled in 1650 and incorporated as a city in 1784. Pop. in 1900, 9589; of the town, 17,486.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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