MERIDEN
New Haven County • Connecticut Local
Meriden Nickname is “The Silver City”
Town in 1806 • City Incorporated in 1867
Meriden became the home of Chinese American Civil War Veteran Joseph Pierce (his chosen name as a Chinese immigrant). Pierce enlisted it the U.S. Army on July 26, 1862. He served the U.S. Army during the Civil War and attained the rank of corporal. Pierce is thought to have achieved the highest rank of any Chinese American in the Union Army. He remained in the army until the end of the war in 1865.
Pierce also fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 and the Battle of Gettysburg along with over 104,000 other soldiers, on July 1–3, 1863. After the war he worked and retired in Meriden in 1914. Joseph Pierce passed away on Jan. 3, 1916 at the age of 73. His picture hangs in the Gettysburg Museum.
The oldest house in town still standing, built by Solomon Goffe in 1711, became a museum in 1986, the Solomon Goffe House.
Meriden became a manufacturing center involved in the production of mainly silver, lamps and metalware, glassware, guns, and musical instruments. A substantial number of design and technology patents were secured.
The grave of Winston Churchill’s great-great-great maternal grandfather, Timothy Jerome, can be seen today at what is now called “Burying Ground 1720” at the juncture of Dexter Avenue and Lydale Place. At the time the location was known as “Buckwheat Hill”, and overlooked the salt-making estate for which Jerome had received a royal grant. Timothy Jerome’s son, Samuel, is the great-great grandfather of Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill’s mother.
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