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Welcome to the Wallingford Center Home page. The Wallingford Center Home page provides as much information as possible on Wallingford Center. Knowing Wallingford Center’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wallingford Center’s Home page, you will also find Wallingford Center’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Wallingford Center has a population of 18948. 47.8% of Wallingford Center’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 47.9% of Wallingford Center is married and 57% own their own home. The Average Home price is $247,759, and the average rent is $1,044. Household median income in Wallingford Center is $72,589, and the individual median income is $42,063. Wallingford Center’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.5%), Hispanic(20.3%), Other(8.6%), Asian(4.6%), Multiple(3.8%), Black(1.3%), Pacific(0.3%).


The Connecticut General Assembly created the town on October 10, 1667. This original plot of land near the Quinnipiac River is now considered Main Street. Starting on May 12, 1670, there were 126 people who lived in temporary housing, and five years later in 1675 there were 40 permanent homes.In 1697 Wallingford was the site of the last witchcraft trial in New England.


Winifred Benham was thrice tried for witchcraft and acquitted all three times.The 1878 Wallingford tornado struck on August 9 of that year. It killed at least 29 and possibly as many as 34 people in Wallingford, the most by any tornado event in Connecticut history. Wallingford is home to a large variety of industries and major corporations spanning the spectrum of the medical, health care, service, hi-tech specialty metal manufacturing and research development.


The development of the Barnes Industrial Parks, Casimir Pulaski Industrial Park, Centract Park and MedWay Industrial Park have greatly contributed to a diversified tax base. An Interchange Zone which permits restrictive commercial development of office parks, research and development centers and hotels was created at the intersection of interstate 91 and Route 68.


The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the town's largest taxpayer, has established a research and development facility in Wallingford's MedWay Industrial Park. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company moved out in 2017 and the structures were demolished in 2018. In terms of Wallingford's manufacturing and design history, silver-producing companies like Hall, Elton & Co., Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co.


and R. Wallace & Sons are of particular note. Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. as well as Wallingford's Watrous Manufacturing Co. later became part of the International Silver Company, which was headquartered in the neighboring city of Meriden.


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