Meriden Historical Marker - Meriden, CT
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The Meriden Historical Marker is a two sided marker located at Broad Street and Charles Street in Meriden, CT
Waymark Code: WM1774R
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 12/27/2022
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A two sided historical marker gives the timeline of the history of Meriden, CT on one side and on the other side the names of the men from Meriden who answered Lexington Alarm at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The marker is inscribed:
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
MERIDEN
1661 – Meriden area first settled when
Jonathan Gilbert is granted land by
Connecticut Colony and employs Edward
Higbee to operate an inn.
1670 – Greater part of present-day Meriden
lands placed under jurisdiction of
Wallingford.
1728 – Separate church parish, named after
Gilbert’s farm Merridan, is established
by the General Assembly.
1806 – Meriden separated from Wallingford and
organized as a town.
1867 – Meriden incorporated as a city.
1922 – Town and City of Meriden consolidated.
Since the 19th Century Meriden has demonstrated itself to be a versatile manufacturing community. Its silver industry has grown to such proportions that Meriden is nicknamed the “Silver City of the World.”
(Continued on other side)
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
MERIDEN
(Continued from other side)
Lexington Alarm
*Captain John Couch, responding to hostilities
with British at Lexington, left this area
April 23, 1775, commanding the Meriden militia:
John Allen Christopher Atwater Moses Baldwin
*Divan Berry Samuel Briggs John Butler
Samuel Collins Asael Deming Israel Hall, Jr.
Joel Hall *Moses Hall Rufus Hall Samuel Hall
*Benjamin Hart *Insign Hough John Hough
Phineas Hough Aaron Hull David Ives
Elnathan Ives Enos Ives Samuel Johnson
Epaphras Knott Isaac Livingston
*Phineas Lyman Daniel McMullen
*Ephraim Merriam John Merriam John Pearce
*Benjamin Rice *Ezekiel Rice Gideon Rice
Samuel Rice Joseph Shaylor Seth Smith
Bela Warner *Jonathan Yale *Nathaniel Yale
*Buried in Broad Street Cemetery
Erected by the American Revolution
Bicentennial Commission: City of Meriden
and the Connecticut Historical Commission
1976