{"id":1445,"count":8,"description":"Meriden is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 59,653.\nMeriden was originally part of Wallingford. It was granted a separate meetinghouse in 1727, became a town in 1806, and incorporated as a city in 1867. It was named for the town of Meriden, West Midlands, England.\nThe oldest house in town still standing, built by Solomon Goffe in 1711, is now a museum, the Solomon Goffe House.\nIn the 1800s, Meriden earned the nickname \u201cSilver City,\u201d due to the large number of cutlery and related products which were manufactured here by companies such as International Silver and Meriden Cutlery.\nCharles Parker and his younger brother, opened their first manufacturing factory in Meriden in 1832, with a capital outlay of $70.00. Over the years they manufactured a wide variety of products\u201a from steam engines, train wheels and printing presses to piano stools. During the American Civil War Parker's Meriden...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/meriden\/","name":"Meriden","slug":"meriden","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}