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Place Name
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Madison
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Population
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15,485 (1990)
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Location
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New Haven County, Connecticut (CT), United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°20'N
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Longitude
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72°37'W
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Madison
, resort town (1990 pop. 15,485), New Haven co., S Conn., on
Hammonasset R. and L.I. Sound, and 17 mi/27 km
E of New Haven; 41°20'N 72°37'W. Mostly residential with summer
family resort at Hammonasset Beach State Park. Many fine 17th- and
18-cent. houses; once a shipbuilding, shipping center. Includes Madison
and East R. (on small East R.) villages and Hammonasset Beach State
Park, at Hammonasset Point. Set off from Guilford 1826.
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