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Meriden, CT - History
We would like to provide the residents of Meriden a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Meriden Home page. The Meriden Home page provides as much information as possible on Meriden. Knowing Meriden’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Meriden’s Home page, you will also find Meriden’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Meriden has a population of 59512. 46.3% of Meriden’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.7 are female. 39.5% of Meriden is married and 57.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $171,695, and the average rent is $1,041. Household median income in Meriden is $58,472, and the individual median income is $36,627. Meriden’s Ethnic is the following: White(74.2%), Hispanic(33.4%), Black(9%), Multiple(8%), Other(6.4%), Asian(2.1%), Native(0.3%).
In 1981, the Ku Klux Klan was present in Meriden, holding various rallies in the first half of the year. At these rallies, Connecticut State Police would protect the KKK from anti-KKK protestors. At a March 21, 1981 rally, where the KKK was showing support for a police officer who killed a Black person, protestors threw rocks at the KKK.
Two protesters were injured.In 1987, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation was founded by the noted art collector that partly worked in Meriden, before her passing, with three focus areas: learning disabilities, the arts, and the environment. The offices were located in downtown Meriden. In c. 2010, the foundation offices were relocated to New Haven, near Yale University.Meriden was a location chosen for the filming of the 1989 film Jacknife directed by David Jones starring Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker.
De Niro played a Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder adjusting to a return to American life. The film was adapted by the play, Strange Snow by Stephen Metcalfe, a native from the adjacent town of Cheshire, Connecticut. A number of Meriden locations can be seen in the film, including a historic house on Linsley Avenue, as well as film locations in the greater region.The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist have their mother house in Meriden, as do the Franciscan Brothers of the Eucharist.
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