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MERIDEN , a city of New Haven county, Connecticut, U.S.A., in the township of Meriden, S.W. of the centre of the state, about i8 m. N.N.E. of New Haven and about the same distance S.S.W. of Hartford. Pop. of the township, including the city (1900), 28,695; (1910), 32,066; of the city (two), 24,296, of whom 7215 were foreign-born; (1910), 27,265. Meriden is served by the New York
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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 Wallingford, but a tract in the northern part of this township was designated as Merideen by an Indian deed of 1664. It was made a separate parish under that name in 1728, but did not become a separate township until 1806. The city was chartered in 1867. See G. W. Perkins, Historical Sketches of Meriden (West Meriden, 1849); C. H. S. Davis, History of Wallingford (Meriden, 1870), and G. M. Curtis and C. Bancroft Gillespie
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