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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 Planning Region.
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- Wadsworth Falls State Park
- Wesleyan University
- Downtown Middletown
- Kidcity Children’s Museum
- Davison Art Center
- Higby Mountain
- Harbor Park
- Brownstone Adventure Park
- Mattabesett Trail
- Stubborn Beauty Brewing
In the early 20th century this beautiful parcel of land, comprising waterfalls, streams, forest and meadows, belonged to Colonel Clarence C. Wadsworth (1871-1941). He was a member of the New York National Guard, but also a linguist and conservationist. His palatial home, Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill, is on the Middletown side of the state park, a...
Established in 1831 this private liberal arts university counts the likes of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bill Belichick among its alumni. Sitting next to downtown Middletown is a picture-perfect campus that needs exploring. You can do this with a guide via the Office of Admission. Alternatively, you can take a self-guided tour, and the university has pu...
Framed by the Metacomet Ridge and Connecticut River, Middletown has a downtown area that is both scenic and vibrant. Along seven walkable blocks of Main Street there are some 200 businesses, many with elegant old storefronts. What you see is the fruit of a lot of effort since the late 20th century, turning Middletown into a place to shop, dine, soc...
For kids aged 1-7, Kidcity is three floors of experiential learning at the historic Camp-Sterns House (1835). This building was lifted onto a truck and moved a few hundred feet to this spot in 1997. All of Kidcity’s exhibits are hand-built by an in-house team, and not to be found anywhere else. This is just one explanation for the attraction’s fait...
Wesleyan University’s own art museum was founded in 1952 at the stately Alsop House, which was built in the late-1830s. The building itself is a work of art, at the transition between Greek Revival and Italianate. The Davison Art Center is open from September to May, and over the last 70 years has gathered some 25,000 pieces. As well as photography...
Middletown’s western limit is walled by this 892-foot basalt mountain ridge. Higby Mountain belongs to the larger Metacomet Ridge, which runs north to south through Connecticut and into Massachusetts for 100 miles. The fault continues for two miles as a panoramic west-facing ledge. Up here I was wowed by the striking views over the neighboring city...
For a moment of repose in Middletown the best bet is to head down to the west bank of the Connecticut River. At Harbor Park there’s several hundred feet of boardwalk decorated with sculpture. I love to linger to watch the river twinkling in the sun, and look north to the steel arch of the Arrigoni Bridge. The park faces east and is a fabulous spot ...
A day loaded with adrenaline-pumping activities is on the cards at this flooded quarry on the east bank of the Connecticut River. The Brownstone Adventure Sports Park has 11 zip lines, a climbing wall, an “extreme” rope swing, cliff-jumping, and wakeboarding. The highlight for me is the floating water park, with all kinds of inflatable obstacles to...
Belonging to Connecticut’s 825-mile Blue-Blazed trail system, the Mattabesett Trail is a 50-mile, U-shaped path that cuts in and out of Middletown. Starting at the Connecticut River, which marks the eastern tip of the U, you can walk a metamorphic landscape as far south as Guildford. The trail then turns north, hugging the famous Metacomet Ridge. T...
Middletown’s favorite craft brewery has been in business for some 15 years. The location is the fine old Remington Rand typewriter factory in the city’s industrial north. Stubborn Beauty Brewing opens for tastings, pours and growler refills Thursday to Sunday, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday. The brewery has always been known for its ecl...
- Hike or bike in the scenic Wadsworth Falls State Park. Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middlefield, CT. Posted by Season's Splendor on Monday, 2 October 2017.
- Sample great local beer at Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company. We have freshly kegged nummy nummy & monsters still under my bed that I can never fight off on tap this week • On...
- Increase your knowledge of astronomy at Van Vleck Observatory. Posted by Van Vleck Observatory on Wednesday, 24 August 2016. If you love the stars and you would like to see more of what exists above us in space, then you have every reason to check out Van Vleck Observatory.
- Let the little ones have fun at Kidcity Children’s Museum. We're open this morning at 9 am - we'll close at some point when then the storm hits this area, so come early or call...
Middletown, city, coextensive with the town (township) of Middletown, Middlesex county, central Connecticut, U.S., on the Connecticut River. Settled by Puritans in 1650 and incorporated as a town in 1651, it occupies the site of the Indian village of Mattabesec (Mattabesett).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Middletown lies on the Connecticut River about 15 miles south of Hartford. The town has a long history. At the time of the American Revolution, John Adams counted it as the most beautiful city in New England, but today almost nothing survives from that era.
The city of Middletown, located in Middlesex County, lies along the west side of the Connecticut River in the central part of the state. Incorporated as a town in 1650 under its original Native American name of Mattabeseck, it received its present name in 1653.
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