Home of the State Insane Asylum, Reform School for Girls and Wesleyan University, the city's first local car lines were built by the Middletown Horse RR, which became the Middletown Street Railway in 1895. NYNH&H RR lines from Middletown to Berlin, Cromwell and Meriden were electrified with trolley wire in 1906. Streetcars served the city until 1929.