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Meriden, Connecticut: Traffic Control Tower

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Address:
44 Hanover St., Meriden, CT
Directions:
Downtown, on the south side of the intersection of Hanover, Colony and Perkins Sts. You can park in the adjacent lot on the south side of Hanover.
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Traffic Control Tower

Resembles a glassed-in guard tower, with traffic signals embedded on four sides. Meriden's tower controlled traffic from 1925 to 1967.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [09/16/2012]

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Traffic Control Tower

The tower includes a nice plaque that gives some more information about its history.

[Roy Snyder, 09/06/2022]

Traffic Light control tower.

Traffic Control Tower

Really cool old school traffic light control tower. Went upstairs and an alarm went off but it wasn't because of me. In the middle of a little town.

[Anthony B, 12/29/2014]

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