Middletown is a city in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles (25.8 km) south of Hartford. Middletown is the largest city in the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. In 1650, it was incorporated by English settlers as a town under its original Native American name, Mattabeseck, after the local Wangunk village of the same name. They were among many tribes along the Atlantic coast who spoke Algonquian languages. The colonists renamed the settlement in 1653.
Northeast
Middletown
Middlesex County, CT
Population
48,152
Walk Score
93 · Walker's Paradise
Median rent
$1,312
Median home value
$257,800
Incorporated
1651
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On the National Register
Historic districts
- Broad Street Historic District
- Broad Street Historic District · listed 1988
- Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane · listed 1985
- Connecticut Valley Hospital Cemetery · listed 2018
- Highland Historic District · listed 1982
- Main Street Historic District · listed 1983
- Metro South Historic District · listed 1980
- Middletown South Green Historic District · listed 1975
- Wadsworth Estate Historic District · listed 1996
- Washington Street Historic District · listed 1985
- Wilcox, Crittenden Mill · listed 1986
Notable landmarks
- Alsop, Richard IV, House · listed 1970
- Arrawanna Bridge · listed 2004
- Beverly Heights Bridge
- Church of the Holy Trinity and Rectory · listed 1979
- Coite-Hubbard House · listed 1978
- Cookson, John, House
- Eclectic House, The · listed 2013
- Fuller, Caleb, House
- Hubbard, Nehemiah, House · listed 1982
- Main Street Firehouse
- Middletown Alms House · listed 1982
- North End Meetinghouse
- Old Middletown High School · listed 1985
- Old Middletown Main Post Office
- Pledger, Jacob, House · listed 1982
- Plumb House · listed 1978
- Russell Company Upper Mill · listed 1986
- Russell, Edward Augustus, House · listed 1982
- Russell, Samuel Wadsworth, House · listed 1970
- Saint Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women · listed 1982
- Sanseer Mill · listed 1986
- Southmayd, William, House
- Starr Mill
- Starr Mill · listed 1993
- Starr Mill Road Bridge · listed 1993
- …and 9 more
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