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Traffic Control Tower

Meriden, CT

This tiny 1925 tower once held a police officer who manually controlled traffic lights at a busy Meriden intersection. Restored as a monument, it preserves an odd transitional stage between hand signals and automated traffic systems.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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