Meriden / Lexington Alarm
[Marker front]:
1661 – Meriden area first settled when Jonathan Gilbert is granted land by Connecticut Colony and employs Edward Higbee to operate an inn.
1670 – Greater part of present-day Meriden lands placed under jurisdiction of Wallingford.
1728 – Separate church parish, named after Gilbert’s farm Merridan, is established by the General Assembly.
1806 – Meriden separated from Wallingford and organized as a town.
1867 – Meriden incorporated as a city.
1922 – Town and City of Meriden consolidated.
Since the 19ty Century Meriden has demonstrated itself to be a versatile manufacturing community. Its silver industry has grown to such proportions that Meriden is nicknamed the “Silver City of the World.”
[Marker reverse]:
Lexington Alarm
*Captain John Couch, responding to hostilities with British at Lexington, left this area April 23, 1775, commanding the Meriden militia: John Allen Christopher Atwater Moses Baldwin *Divan Berry Samuel Briggs John Butler Samuel Collins Asael Deming Israel Hall, Jr. Joel Hall *Moses Hall Rufus Hall Samuel Hall *Benjamin Hart *Insign Hough John Hough Phineas Hough Aaron Hull David Ives Elnathan Ives Enos Ives Samuel Johnson Epaphras Knott Isaac Livingston *Phineas Lyman Daniel McMullen *Ephraim Merriam John Merriam John Pearce *Benjamin Rice *Ezekiel Rice Gideon Rice Samuel Rice Joseph Shaylor Seth Smith Bela Warner *Jonathan Yale *Nathaniel Yale
*Buried in Broad Street Cemetery
Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Charles Street, on the left when traveling north on Broad Street.
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