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Naugatuck, Connecticut
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The town of Naugatuck was occupied by settlers as early as 1702. Samuel Hickox (1669-1713) is credited with being Naugatuckâs first settler. He established a fulling mill on Fulling Mill Brook in Naugatuck in 1709. The locality was called Judds Meadow until 1752, when it was renamed Salem Bridge. In 1844, parts of Waterbury, Bethany, and Oxford incorporated to form the town of Naugatuck. The industrial borough of Naugatuck established in 1893 and became coextensive with the town in 1895. As the Industrial Revolution commenced, Naugatuck was transformed into a mill town like its neighbors in the Naugatuck River Valley.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}{{Multiple image| header = Naugatuck| align = left| direction = | total_width = 250| perrow = 1/1| image1= Goodyear-1-.jpgGeography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 16.5 square miles (42.6 km{{sup|2}}), of which 16.4 square miles (42.4 km{{sup|2}}) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km{{sup|2}}), or 0.36%, is water.Demographics
{{US Census population|1850= 1720|1860= 2590|1870= 2830|1880= 4274|1890= 6218|1900= 10541|1910= 12722|1920= 15051|1930= 14315|1940= 15388|1950= 17455|1960= 19511|1970= 23034|1980= 26456|1990= 30625|2000= 30989|2010= 31862|2020= 31519Government
Naugatuck is unique in Connecticut government for being the only consolidated town and borough. Every other borough in Connecticut is a special services district located within another town, the unit of Connecticut local government. Naugatuck has both a town clerk and a borough clerk managing official records, the same as Connecticut cities having two clerks: a town clerk and a city clerk.As with most other Connecticut towns and cities, Naugatuck elect its officials in November of odd-numbered years.Education
Naugatuck has a total of 5 public elementary schools (which include grades Kâ4), 2 public intermediate schools (grades 5â6), 1 public middle school (grades 7â8), and Naugatuck High School (grades 9â12). The high school has an overall enrollment of 1,267 students.In 2013, an $81 million renovation for the high school took place and was completed by the fall of 2015 that brought the school up to date.WEB,weblink NHS renovations moving ahead full steam {{!, Citizen's News|website=www.mycitizensnews.com|date=July 23, 2013 |access-date=October 19, 2016}}Transportation
The town has a Metro-North Railroad station (Naugatuck) along the Waterbury Branch of the New Haven Line. The principal highways through the town are Connecticut Route 63 (connecting to New Haven), Route 68 (leading to Durham), and the Route 8 expressway (for Waterbury, Derby, Torrington, and Bridgeport).National Register of Historic Places
- Bronson B. Tuttle House: 380 Church St., now headquarters of the Naugatuck Historical Society
- Naugatuck Center Historic District: Roughly bounded by Fairview Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Terrace Avenue, Water Street and Pleasant View Street (added August 30, 1999)
- Salem School: 124 Meadow St. (added December 3, 1983). Before construction of the first Naugatuck High School (now Hillside Intermediate School), high-school classes were held on the top floor of this building.
- United States Post OfficeâNaugatuck Main: Church and Cedar streets (added February 21, 1986)
Notable people
- Adrian, costume designer for Hollywood films such as The Wizard of Oz and the Broadway musical Camelot, for which he won a posthumous Tony AwardIBDB
- Michael Bergin, former Calvin Klein model and Baywatch actor; attended Naugatuck High School where he played baseball and basketball
- Seth Bingham, organist and prolific composer
- Emily Sophie Brown, one of the first women to serve in the Connecticut House of Representatives; resident of Naugatuck from 1910 to 1985
- Billy Burke, professional golfer, winner of the 1931 U.S. Open
- Ray Foley, baseball player who appeared in two games for the 1928 New York Giants
- Charles Goodyear, first American to vulcanize rubber, lived in Naugatuck as a young man; his brother, Henry Goodyear, founded the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company in Naugatuck that became part of the United States Rubber Company in 1892C. Slack, Noble Obsession, (Hyperion, 2003)Federal Writers' Project, Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (US History Publishers, 1938)
- Shirley Grey, stage and movie actress during the 1920s and 1930s
- Robert Harper, computer scientist
- Mohamed Hrezi, runner who competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the marathon
- Frank "Spec" Shea, professional baseball player who pitched in 1947 World Series, nicknamed "The Naugatuck Nugget"WEB,weblink Spec Shea, Baseballbiography.com, July 30, 2008,
Gallery
Naugatuck town history sign 1.jpg|Town history sign found on the Naugatuck GreenNaugatuckHighSchool.jpg|Naugatuck High School ({{circa|1910}}), a McKim, Mead, and White design. The building is now Hillside Intermediate School, following erection of a new high school on Rubber Avenue in the late 1950s.PostcardSalemSchoolNaugatuckCT1915.jpg|Salem School, from a 1905 postcardNaugatuck Station.jpg|Naugatuck Metro-North Railroad station, located on the Waterbury Branch lineSee also
- Gunntown Cemetery
- Hop Brook Lake
- Laurel Park Incorporated
- Naugatuck State Forest
- St. Hedwig Parish, Union City
Notes
{{Reflist}}External links
{{Commons category|Naugatuck, Connecticut}}{{NSRW Poster|Naugatuck, Conn.}}- Borough of Naugatuck official website
- Naugatuck Economic Development Commission
- Naugatuck Historical Society
- Howard Whittemore Memorial Library
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