Middletown, Connecticut, USA
1895 - Middletown

Middletown, a city and port of entry of Connecticut, and one of the capitals of Middlesex co., is pleasantly situated on the right or W. bank of the Connecticut River, and on the Connecticut Valley Railroad, the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad ("Air Line"), and other branches of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 15 miles S. of Hartford, and 24 miles N.E. of New Haven. The principal mercantile houses and hotels are on Main street, which is broad and level, The more elevated parts of the city are occupied by elegant residences (on High street), with fine gardens and highly ornamented grounds. This city contains a stone court house, a custom-house, 4 national banks, an industrial school for girls, state asylum for the insane, the Berkeley Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal), and the Wesleyan University (Methodist), which was organized in 1831 and has 25 professors and instructors, about 300 students, and a library of 25,000 volumes. One daily and 1 weekly newspapers are published here. On a high hill 1 mile S.E. of this city are the large and imposing buildings of the State General Hospital for the Insane, having accommodations for 1300 patients. The main building is of Portland sandstone, Middletown has manufactures of britanniaware, tape, webbing, pumps, electric-light supplies, locks, harness, &c. An iron railway bridge across the river connects this city with the township of Portland, in which the celebrated Portland sandstone is quarried. The trains of the Air-Line Railroad pass over this bridge. The harbor of this port has 10 feet of water at the wharves. The New York and Hartford steamboats touch here. Middletown was settled in 1636, and incorporated as a city in 17??. Pop. in 1880, 6826; in 1890, 9013.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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