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34 unusual facts about Middletown


Aeronca 11 Chief

Aeronca was at the time headquartered at Middletown, Ohio, but production facilities there were heavily utilized with the 7AC Champion line; because of this, the model 11 aircraft were assembled at the Dayton Municipal Airport in Vandalia, Ohio.

American Flyers Airline

Around this time the airline moved its operations to Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Buck English

The local newspaper later said, "Shortly before this robbery, he and his companion met four Chinese miners coming down from the Great Western Mine (near Middletown), and robbed them of their watches and money."

Camp Alger

Early in September the remainder of the corps was transferred to Camp Meade, near Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Camp George Meade

Camp George G. Meade near Middletown, Pennsylvania was a camp established and subsequently abandoned by the U.S. Volunteers during the Spanish American War.

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park

In March 2013, the park opened a Visitor Contact Station in Middletown, Virginia, featuring interpretive exhibits and information on how visitors can experience the park.

Colorado Army National Guard

The 947th Engineer Company (CSE) was augmented with a platoon of the 160th Engineer Company (CSE) from Middletown, Delaware.

Dave Twardzik

Twardzik grew up in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and played collegiately at Old Dominion University, where he was a two-time All American and led the Monarchs to the 1971 NCAA Division II title game.

Desmond Bryant

That was his only year playing high school football in North Carolina; Bryant played football and basketball for three years while attending high school in Middletown, Delaware and played for the East Bladen basketball team for two seasons.

Eleanor King

King was born on February 8, 1906 in Middletown, Pennsylvania to George Ilgenfritz and Emma Kate Campbell King.

Eric Boateng

He attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.

Eric Boateng attended Ernest Bevin College in Tooting, South London, between 1997-2002, he later attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, where he averaged 19.6 points, 13.6 rebounds and 4.6 blocked shots a game.

Giovanni Bonventre

That same year, Bonanno and Bonventre purchased a dairy farm near Middletown, New York in the Catskill Mountains.

Hartford and New Haven Railroad

In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.

Helen Twelvetrees

On February 13, 1958, Twelvetrees was found unconscious on the floor of her living room at her home in Middletown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Harrisburg.

Hope Hill Van Beuren

She is married, has three children, and resides in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Isaiah Edward Robinson, Jr.

He lived in Middletown, New York with his adopted sons before he returned to Birmingham, Alabama, where he died on April 14, 2011, following a stroke.

John F. Farnsworth

In September 1862, Farnsworth led a cavalry brigade in the Army of the Potomac during the Maryland Campaign, sparring with Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart and Wade Hampton in a series of minor engagements near South Mountain and Middletown, Maryland.

KNRQ

The Educational Media Foundation announced that the station would be operated as a "satellite" of KLVR in Middletown, California, as part of the K-LOVE radio network.

Linda Fite

Fite works for the Times Herald-Record, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New York.

Middletown, Delaware

The episode of The West Wing entitled Two Cathedrals (#44) was partly filmed at St. Andrew's School.

Middletown, Kentucky

The racial makeup of the city was 87.1% White (85.1% non-Hispanic), 7.1% African American, 0.11% Native American, 2.8% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.87% from other races, and 1.9% from two or more races.

Middletown, Massachusetts

Tisbury, Massachusetts, known as "Middletown" until 1671, in Dukes County

Middletown, Pennsylvania

Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania of the Harrisburg metropolitan area, zip code 17057

Nakajima J1N

The airplane was moved to the Air Materiel Depot at Middletown, Pennsylvania, on 23 January 1946.

Pennsylvania Route 230

Beyond the airport is Middletown.

Phoenix Contact

Phoenix Contact USA, one of the company's first international subsidiaries, was established in 1981 in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Robins Air Force Base

When the U.S. Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots.

Snallygaster

The sightings of Dewayo are primarily reported in West Middletown, Maryland, but sightings have also been reported in the Wolfsville, Maryland region.

Spot Poles

Poles spent his post-baseball years as a taxi cab operator and working at Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, Pennsylvania, enabling him to retire comfortably.

St. Georges Technical High School

Georges Technical High School is a vocational-technical high school northeast of Middletown, Delaware, the newest of four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, and Hodgson Vo-Tech High School in Glasgow.

St. Helena Hospital Clearlake

The hospital owns and operates three outpatient family health centers in Clearlake, Middletown and Kelseyville.

Taft Bridge

A replica of the Bairstow eagles is seen in a World War I monument in Middletown, Delaware.


Alsop House

Richard Alsop IV House, Middletown, Connecticut, also known as Alsop House and designated a National Historic Landmark under that name

Beekman, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Coite-Hubbard House

High Street between Church and Washington Streets was the most prestigious residential area in Middletown during the 19th century, and is now a part of the Wesleyan University campus.

Douglas Bennett

Douglas J. Bennet (born 1938), president of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States

Ferdinand Van Derveer

He was educated at Farmer's College, studied law, passed his bar exam and established his practice in Middletown.

Jamestown, Rhode Island

Portions of the films Wind, Me, Myself and Irene, American General, Evening, Dan in Real Life and Moonrise Kingdom were filmed in Jamestown, as well as in various nearby Aquidneck Island towns, such as Middletown and Newport.

Laurent de Brunhoff

In 1985 de Brunhoff moved to the United States, living in Middletown, Connecticut with writer and Wesleyan University professor Phyllis Rose.

Marion Hutton

Jeanine Basinger, a film historian and professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, refers to Marion Hutton in her chapter on Marion's younger sister, actress and singer Betty Hutton in the 2007 book The Star Machine.

Middletown studies

Critics of American culture, such as H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.

Nate Barlow

Born in Middletown, Connecticut, to two musician and teaching parents, he spent two years as a child in Tanzania, where he attended the International School Moshi.

Paul J. Sorg

On July 20, 1876, he married Susan Jennie Gruver (1854–1930) in Middletown; they had two children, Paul Arthur Sorg (1878–1913) and Ada Gruver Sorg (1882–1956).

Performo Toy Company

There is a well known legend in Middletown about how Performo Toy Company sued The Walt Disney Company, which included some coverage in the local paper.

Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky

Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky (5 October 1916, Bonn - 27 January 1987, Middletown, New York) was a German entomologist who worked in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States.

Rob Cohen

He was raised and spent his childhood in the Town of Newburgh and graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 1967 (according to an article by Germain Lussier in the Middletown (New York) Times Herald Record, August 3, 2008).

Shore Line Electric Railway

At Ferry Street in Fair Haven, the line shifted to its own tracks running on Middletown Avenue and Foxon Boulevard (CT-80).

The Matlock Paper

Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring, led by a mysterious figure named "Nimrod." The novel is set at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly disguised Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ludlum's alma mater.

Thomas H. Seymour

Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.

Tony Connor

From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

U.S. Route 301

In the early 1970s, the northbound alignment was modified, continuing north on Middletown with DE 71 across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the Summit Bridge.

Woodbury, Orange County, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

WYNY

WMJQ, a proposed radio station (1400 AM) holding a construction permit for Middletown, New York, United States, which held the call sign WYNY from 2009 to 2011