Middletown, Connecticut (usa)

Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown, Connecticut ranks 3,631st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sveg, Arvika, and Sanandaj. Memorable people born in Middletown, Connecticut include Jules Dassin, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Dean Acheson. Memorable people who died in Middletown, Connecticut include John Clellon Holmes, and Lowell Weicker. Middletown, Connecticut has been the birth place of many film directors, and physicists and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Middletown, Connecticut is located in United States.

Middletown is a city in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. Located along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, it is 16 miles 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. Read more on Wikipedia