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The Annual meeting of the Center Street Cemetery Association was held on June 16, 2026 at the cemetery office at 6:00 pm – 60 Prince St. Wallingford, CT

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HISTORY

Acting upon a petition presented by a group of thirty-eight men under the leadership of John Mosse, the General Court session of October 10, 1667 passed the following resolution:

“Upon the motion of the deputies of New Haven, this Court grants the town of New Haven liberty to make a village on the East River (Qunnnipiac) if they see it capable for such a thing, provided they settle a village there within four years from May next.” 

This resolution was accepted by a committee of seven New Haven men who drew up an Agreement consisting of four articles. These articles, in turn, being accepted by the thirty-eight potential founders of Wallingford, composed the opening document in the official Wallingford records, Volume One, as Month 31, 11, 1669.

This Agreement was followed by a covenant known as the Wallingford Covenant which was signed by the founding fathers: Samuel Street, Nathaniel Merriman, John Mosse, Abraham Doolittle, John Brockett, Jeremiah How, Samuel Andrews, Daniel Sherman, John Hall, Samuel Hall, Samuel Cook, Zachariah How, Nathaniel How, Joseph Benham, Samuel Potter, Joseph Ives, William Johnson, Eleazar Peck, Samuel Munson, John Peck, Samuel Brown, John Miles, Nathan Andrews, John Ives, Simon Tuttle, Samuel Miles, John Harriman, James Heaton, Daniel Hopper, Samuel Whitehead, Benjamin Lewis, Thomas Curtis, Thomas Yale, Thomas Hall, John Beach, Eleasaph Preston, Jehiel Preston, Eleazur Holt.

At a Court of Election held in Hartford on May 12, 1670, to state the Boundaries and Name of the New Village, the Court ordered that the Plantation on the road to New Haven shall be called Wallingford.

The first death in Wallingford was that of Samuel, son of Eleazer Peck, who died at the age of one on March 12, 1673.  However, the first free public burying ground of the Town of Wallingford was not established until ten years later in 1683 on a plot of land known as “burying ground hill” which ran between Long Highway to the east and Old Colony Rd. to the west.

Here on these sacred grounds lie the remains of those whose activities in private and in public life laid the foundation for the present day Town of Wallingford, as well as the remains of those who represented the town in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and many other conflicts. From the very beginning to the present, it has been and continues to be the final resting place of any residents of Wallingford, regardless of nationality, race and religious belief, who may desire to be laid to rest there.