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Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.The population of the town was 43,026 at the 2000 census

Demographics:
As of the census² of 2000, Wallingford had 43,026 people and 16,697 households. There were 11,587 families residing in the town. The population density was 425.7/km² (1,102.7/mi²). The town had 17,306 housing units at an average density of 171.2/km² (443.5/mi²). The people of various races live in Wallingford.The racial makeup of the town was 94.77% White, 1.02% African American, 0.17% Native American, 1.75% Asian, 1.16% from other races, and 1.14% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.52% of the population.

The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.07.

Points of interest:
Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford:
The Center Street Cemetery in Wallingford, Connecticut is a 6 acre cemetery. Lyman Hall is also memorialized here. Lyman was a native of Connecticut who moved to Georgia and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Set on the north end of the 300-year-old Center Street Cemetery, the tomb lies near the graves of such other notaries as Thomas Yale, brother of the founder of Yale University;John Brockett who designed much of New Haven, and Joseph Benham, whose daughter was the last person in New England to be tried for witchcraft.

Choate Rosemary Hall:
Choate Rosemary Hall is located in Wallingford, Connecticut, fifteen miles north of New Haven, Connecticut. Choate Rosemary Hall is a New England preparatory school for students in grades 9-12. The storied academy has both boarding and day students.. It has participated in co-education since the early 1970s. Choate Rosemary Hall has become very famous for its educational activities. Today, students come from nearly all fifty states and twenty-four countries.The student body consists of 28% students of color. The admission rate is approximately 17%. The school offers a number of cutting-edge academic programs across the curriculum.

The Chevrolet Theater
The Chevrolet Theater, originally the Oakdale Theatre, is located on South Turnpike Road in Wallingford, Connecticut. The Oakdale was transformed into a year-round 5,000-seat performing arts center in the mid-1990s. The facility was changed from a theater-in-the-round to an end-stage, amphitheater arrangement by the new project. The new 120,000-square-foot theater was completed in mid-summer 1996. It is now the largest theater in the state of Connecticut.

Paul Mellon Arts Center:
Locally known as the "PMAC.", the Paul Mellon Arts Center is an arts building on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall school, Wallingford, Connecticut. The noted architect I. M. Pei designed this marvelous building..The building was completed in 1972. The school alumnus Paul Mellon made generous contributions in providing funds for the building.

Octagon house:
Wallingford is home to an octagon house. It is an eight-sided house. It is a unique fad in residential architecture. Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest and William Thornton's Tayloe House, is more commonly called The Octagon House. President James Madison stayed in the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. when the White House was burned by the British during the War of 1812. The Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 was signed here. Later it served as the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects.

Yalesville Underpass:
The Yalesville Underpass is a 30 degree skew arch at the intersections of Routes 150 and 71 in Wallingford, Connecticut. William MacKenzie built the Yalesville Underpass in 1838 for the rail road. It is also reported to be the first skew arch underpass in America. Tall hay wagons can pass through the central arch. Its stone structure is also one of the oldest stone railroad bridges in America.

A point of interest of this underpass is its width allows only one car to pass at a time, which is controlled by a 2-way stoplight.