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Wallingford

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Wallingford, town (1990 pop. 40,822), New Haven co., S Conn.; inc. 1670. Its silverware industry dates from c.1835. Fruit growing and the manufacture of plastics, steel, precision instruments, and hardware are among the town's other industries. In Wallingford is the Choate preparatory school for boys, now coordinated with Rosemary Hall, a girls' preparatory school formerly located at Greenwich, Conn. A branch of the Oneida Community was founded in the town in 1851. Lyman Hall Hall, Lyman, 1724–90, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Wallingford, Conn. He was a Congregational minister for some time before practicing medicine.
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I saw it was just a mile and a half to the next lock - Wallingford - and five on from there to Cleeve.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Burges, Duer and Mackenzie, 1843; The French Governess; or, The Embroidered Handkerchief, 1843; Richard Dale, 1843; Wyandotte, 1843; Ned Myers, or Life before the Mast, 1843; Afloat and Ashore (Miles Wallingford, Lucy Hardinge), two series, 1844; Proceedings of the Naval Court-Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, etc.
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