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Middletown (City and countyseat)

a city and countyseat of Middlesex co., Conn., on the Connecticut river, and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 15 miles S. of Hartford. It is the seat of WES- LEYAN UNIVERSITY (q. v.), the State Industrial School for Girls, the Berkeley Divinity School, and a State Insane Asylum; contains the county court house, National and savings banks, and the Russell Public Library; and has electric light and street railroad plants, improved waterworks, and manufactories of ship hardware, elastic webbing, rubber goods, pumps, hammocks, sewing machines, etc.

Middletown was incorporated in September, 1651. Pop. (1910) 11,851; (1920) 13,638.