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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERIDEN , a See also:

city of New Haven See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., in the township of Meriden, S.W. of the centre of the See also:state, about i8 m. N.N.E. of New Haven and about the same distance S.S.W. of See also:Hartford. Pop. of the township, including the city (1900), 28,695; (1910), 32,066; of the city (two), 24,296, of whom 7215 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910), 27,265. Meriden is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by an inter-See also:urban electric See also:line. The city is bisected by Harbor See also:Brook, a small stream, and through the S.W. See also:part of the township flows the Quinnipiac See also:river. A See also:short distance N.W. of the city, in Hubbard See also:Park, an attractive See also:reservation of more than 900 acres, are the See also:Hanging Hills, three elevations (See also:West See also:Mountain, See also:South Mountain and See also:Cat-Hole Mountain) in a broken range of See also:trap ridges, which have resisted the erosion that formed the lowlands of the Connecticut valley; they rise to a height of about 700 ft. above the See also:sea. In their vicinity, near the boundary of See also:Berlin township, is Merimere, one of the city's four reservoirs. Meriden is the seat of the Connecticut School for Boys (Reformatory). There are also a public library (1899), a state armoury, a See also:hospital, the See also:Curtis See also:Home for orphans and aged See also:women, and a See also:tuberculosis sanitarium supported by the city. Meriden is one of the most important manufacturing cities of Connecticut, and in 1905 produced 59.9% of the plated See also:ware manufactured in the state, and much See also:sterling See also:silver. In 1905 the factory product was valued at $13,763,548, an increase of 17.1% over that of 1900. Meriden was originally a part of the township of See also:Wallingford, but a See also:tract in the See also:northern part of this township was designated as Merideen by an See also:Indian See also:deed of 1664.

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separate See also:parish under that name in 1728, but did not become a separate township until 1806. The city was chartered in 1867. See G. W. See also:Perkins, See also:Historical Sketches of Meriden (West Meriden, 1849); C. H. S. See also:Davis, See also:History of Wallingford (Meriden, 1870), and G. M. Curtis and C. See also:Bancroft See also:Gillespie, A See also:Century of Meriden (Meriden, 1906).

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