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The history of the Town has been one generally of providing business, educational, religious, and social opportunities to the surrounding countryside as well as serving the needs of travelers in the valley. Around 1889, Middletown was tarnished by one of the many land promotion schemes then common. “New Middletown” was to be developed just ...
The Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, husband-and-wife sociologists. The Lynds' findings were detailed in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, published in 1929, and Middletown in Transition: A ...
Middletown was incorporated as a city June 29, 1888, with John E Iseman as the last village president and first mayor. The event was celebrated on Independence Day with fireworks and other festivities at Academy Avenue Park. This had been the site of two cemeteries which had been converted to a park in the mid-1880s.
History 1664-Present. Officially founded in 1664 as one of the seats of colonial America, Middletown was settled by English who migrated from western Long Island and New England, beginning at the 1665 proclamation of the Monmouth Patent by royal governor Richard Nicholls. This grant, issued to 12 Britons, contained several provisions governing ...
Middletown, Connecticut. / 41.56222°N 72.65083°W / 41.56222; -72.65083. 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 (26 kilometers) south of Hartford. Middletown is the largest city in the Lower Connecticut River Valley ...
Middletown, the oldest town in Dauphin County, was laid out thirty years before Harrisburg and seven years before Hummelstown. Due to its location for trade, both by land and by water, the town grew rapidly for at least a century and a half. Prior to 1729, this area was a part of Chester County. In 1729, Lancaster County was formed, and on ...
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Other articles where Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture is discussed: Muncie: …in the classic sociological study Middletown, published in 1929 by Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd. The name (shortened in 1845 from Munseetown or Munsey Town) commemorates the Munsee (Wolf) clan of Delaware Indians who once lived there. The town was founded in 1827 when Goldsmith C. Gilbert, a ...
