age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males. The median income for a household in the town was $78,571, and the median income for a family was $87,026. Males had a median income of $50,500 versus $37,447 for females. The per capita income for the town was $30,519. 3.5% of the population and 1.5% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.6% were under the age of 18 and 7.2% were 65 or older. Notable people Samuel Arnold, politician David Brainerd, missionary George Bradford Brainerd, engineer, photographer, and nature historian Smith Clark, lawyer and legislator Mary H. Dickerson, businesswoman David Dudley Field II, politician Stephen Johnson Field, politician and jurist Josiah J. Hazen, college football player and coach Asahel W. Hubbard, attorney, judge, and politician David McDowell, psychiatrist, author, and consultant Emil Planeta, MLB pitcher Alexander Shaler, military general Venture Smith, enslaved African and author James Clark Walkley, politician Literary references The "thin men of Haddam" are apostrophized in stanza seven of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens: O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? Notable locations and historic sites Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Higganum Landing Historic District, NRHP-listed Camp Bethel – a historic religious camp at 124 Camp Bethel Road, built in 1877 and added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2007 The town center village, listed as the Haddam Center Historic District on the NRHP James Hazelton House, NRHP-listed Thankful Arnold House Museum, a stop on the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail References External links Town government Web site Towns in Middlesex County, Connecticut Connecticut populated places on the Connecticut River Towns in Connecticut Greater Hartford 1668 establishments in Connecticut