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About Wallingford
Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The
population was 43,026 at the 2000 census.
Wallingford was established on October 10, 1667, when the Connecticut General
Assembly authorized the "making of a village on the east river" to 38 planters
and freemen. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people
settled in the town. Six acre lots were set out and by the year 1675, 40 houses
stretched along today's Main Street. In 1775 and again in 1789, George
Washington passed through Wallingford.
In the 1800s, Wallingford was known for its pewter ware and silver industries,
which were later merged into the International Silver Company with its
headquarters in Meriden, Connecticut.
In October, 1871, Wallingford's train station was completed for the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Noted for its mansard roof, ornamental brackets
and stone quoins — the interlocking exterior corners — the station is among the
few remaining of its kind that were built during President Grant's
administration at the height of railway expansion. The town undertook an
overhaul to the roof and exterior with the help of state and federal grants in
the early 1990s.
Wallingford was the birthplace of Moses Yale Beach (1800–1868), who would go on
to found the Associated Press; singer Morton Downey; conservative talk show host
Morton Downey, Jr.; and Georgia governor and signer of the Declaration of
Independence Lyman Hall. It was also the childhood home of World War I flying
ace Raoul Lufbery. The town produces its own electricity and maintains an
electric company with rates well below the state's average.