Middletown (Connecticut)
Middlesex County
09-47290
Middletown is a city on the Connecticut River in the state of Connecticut in the United States. The city has 47 648 inhabitants ( United States Census 2010) and is the county seat of administration of Middlesex County. It is located 28 km south of Hartford, the capital of the state.
In Middletown is the campus of Wesleyan University, which is considered one of the most prestigious private universities in the United States.
Gas power plant
On 7 February 2010, a serious explosion in which there were several deaths occurred in the Kleen Power Plant, an under construction 620 MW gas power plant a few miles east of downtown, at 11:30 local time. The explosion was felt in a radius of about 25 km.
Twinning
Middletown maintains with the following cities twinned:
Sons and daughters of the town
- Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971), U.S. Secretary of State
- Stephen Chadwick (1825-1895), Governor of Oregon
- Jules Dassin (1911-2008), Film Director
- Chauncey Hardy (1988-2011), basketball player
- Samuel D. Hubbard (1799-1855), U.S. Postmaster General
- Joey Logano (* 1990), racing driver, one of the biggest young talents
- Return Jonathan Meigs junior (1764-1825), Democratic- Republican politician
- James Naughton ( born 1945 ), actor
- Tony Pastor (1907-1969), jazz saxophonist, singer and bandleader
- Ellsworth C. Phelps (1827-1900 or 1913), composer and organist
- Tom Shaka ( born 1953 ), blues musician
- Frederick William True (1858-1914), biologist
- John H. van Vleck (1899-1980), Physicist
- Bill Watrous ( born 1939 ), jazz trombonist
- Allie Wrubel (1905-1973), saxophonist, songwriter and composer