* Cage Kennylz, rapper was raised in Middletown

Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut.

Route 35 northbound approaching the intersection with New Jersey Route 34 | Route 34 and New Jersey Route 70 | Route 70 in Wall Township, New Jersey | Wall Township, which was the Brielle Circle until 2001, when it was replaced with an at-grade intersection with jughandle s. The present-day alignment of Route 35 follows parts of many 19th-century turnpikes, including the Keyport and Middletown Turnpike, which was chartered on March 5, 1852, the Middletown Turnpike, chartered in 1866 to run from Middletown Township to Red Bank, the Middletown and Keyport Turnpike, which was chartered on March 15, 1859 to run from Middletown Township to Keyport, the Red Bank and Eatontown Turnpike, chartered on February 9, 1865 along present-day Broad Street, County Route 11, and Route 35, and the Shrewsbury Turnpike, which was chartered in 1857 to run from Red Bank to Eatontown.

Pratt & Whitney is headquartered in East Hartford, Connecticut and also has plants in Columbus, Georgia ; Middletown, Connecticut ; Dallas, Texas ;

* Prairie Creek, Indiana, also known as Middletown

A mixed-use complex, the Middletown Town Center, is also planned to be built in this area.

The northeastern portion of the county, in the Locust neighborhood of Middletown Township and the boroughs of Highlands and Atlantic Highlands, are also very hilly.

Carberry was also known at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from about 1930, when Spaeth moved from Brown University to join the Wesleyan faculty.

Colonial School District, Christina School District, and Appoquinimink School District, which also serves Middletown.

Middletown is also home to the Knapp library and museum.

When the government of Jefferson County merged with the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, citizens of Middletown also became citizens of the new Louisville Metro, however, none of the incorporated places in Jefferson County were affected.

Middletown also hosts two public magnet schools, High Technology High School, on the property of Brookdale Community College, located in the Lincroft section of town, and the Marine Academy of Science and Technology located on Sandy Hook, which are part of the Monmouth County Vocational School District.

NJ Transit also offers bus service, which stops many places throughout Middletown.

Middletown also benefits from its convenient location.

The elementary schools serving are Indian Lane, Media, Glenwood, and Rose Tree the middle school is Springton Lake, located in Upper Providence, and the high school is Penncrest, located also in Middletown.

Its villages include Broadhead, Butztown, Farmersville, Middletown, Prospect Park ( also in Palmer Township ,) and Wagnerville.

The village is also the basis of a census-designated place ( CDP ), which extends south along the shore of Narragansett Bay into the town of Middletown to encompass the village of Lawtons and the port facilities at Coddington Cove.

Middletown also has several beaches.

The town is also home to the Middletown Islanders Hockey, Football, Baseball, Volleyball, and Lacrosse teams.

Middletown is also home to private schools, including All Saints Academy ( Grades K-8 ) and St. George's School ( Grades 9 – 12 ).

Wayside Theatre is also located in Middletown, and is one of Virginia's oldest professional live theatres ( open since 1961 ).

The land on the western bank of the Connecticut River where Middletown now lies was home to the Mattabesett Native Americans ( also spelled Mattabesec, Mattabeseck, and Mattabesek ); the area they inhabited — now Middletown and the surrounding area — was named after them.

The mid-19th century also saw manufacturing replace trade as Middletown's economic mainstay ; however, industrial growth was limited by railroad operators ' decision to bypass Middletown when tracks were laid between Hartford and New Haven.

Middletown also briefly was the home of a major-league baseball team, the Middletown Mansfields of the National Association.

The efforts of two Wesleyan professors also brought a small group of Cambodian refugees to Middletown in the early 1980s, who became the basis of a thriving Cambodian community, and a similar story is true for Middletown's small Tibetan community.

In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold's competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site.

A redrawing of Chester Township's borders in 1829 placed this site in present Middletown Township, with only the mill race and the owner's mansion in Brookhaven.

Middletown has been the site of numerous military operations in the American Civil War including the Battle of Cedar Creek, fought just south of the town.

In 1887, the Roman Catholic Church purchased the Middletown estate, adjacent to Brookland, as the site for The Catholic University of America ( CUA ).

Image from 1840 from the George Crout collection on the Middletown, Ohio public library site ( http :// www. middletownlibrary. org: 8080 / cgi-bin / viewer. exe? CISOROOT =/ Crout & CISOPTR = 477 )

* The Middletown Journal's official site

With the recent catastrophic explosion at a gas-fired power plant in Middletown, Connecticut, and the 2008 Toronto propane explosion, many believe that a buffer zone for such plants is required and that the Ford site is inappropriate due to its close proximity to homes and schools.

Later in the century, the National Science Foundation funded a third major study that resulted in two books by Theodore Caplow, Middletown Families ( 1982 ) and All Faithful People ( 1983 ).

The community was connected to major southern cities by the Louisville, Lexington & Cincinnati Railroad, built in the mid-19th century, and a later railroad connecting Louisville to Anchorage and Middletown.

So, citizens from all the major cities in the valley, Piqua, Troy, Dayton, Carlisle, Franklin, Miamisburg, Middletown, and Hamilton, as examples, gathered together to find a solution.

Its major intersection in the village, Montgomery's only traffic light, is the three-way intersection with Union Street, the northern terminus of NY-211, which connects it to Middletown to the southwest.

During this period, Middletown became a major center for firearms manufacturing.

Meanwhile, Blakelock languished in the Middletown State Insane Asylum, whose administration and staff were unaware of his fame as an artist, and who viewed his belief that his paintings were in major museums as one more sign of his illness.

The major roads are State Routes 4 ( a main road from Cincinnati to Dayton via Middletown, 122 ( which links Lebanon to Middletown, and 744.

He is buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut, and received a posthumous promotion to major general, backdated from July 18, 1862, for his gallantry at Antietam.

The MU & WG wound up in a very favorable situation with connections to three major carriers, the NYLE & W ( Erie ) and O & W in Middletown and the NYS & W at Hanford.