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NAUGATUCK , a township and See also:

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of New Haven See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, U.S.A., on the Naugatuck See also:

RIVER

river, 5 M. S. of See also:

WATERBURY

Waterbury, with an See also:

AREA

area of 17 sq. m. in 1906. Pop. (189o) 6218, (1900) 10,541, of whom 3432 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 12,722. It i.s served by the New See also:

York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford railroad and by interurban electric See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. Among the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal public buildings are the Whittemore Memorial Public Library (1892), a See also:

FINE

fine high school and the large See also:

SALEM

Salem school (See also:

PART

part of the public school See also:

SYSTEM

system), all given to the borough by See also:

John See also:

Howard Whittemore of Naugatuck, who in addition endowed the library and the high school. The river furnishes See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power. Among the manufactures are See also:

RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber goods, chemicals, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron castings, woollen goods, See also:

CUTLERY (Fr. coutellerie, from the Lat. cultellus, a little knife)

cutlery, &c. The value of the factory products increased from $8,886,676 in 1900 to $11,009,573 in 1905, or 23.9%. The prominence of the rubber See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry here is due to See also:

Charles See also:

GOODYEAR, CHARLES (1800-186o)

Goodyear (q.v.), who in 1821 entered into See also:

PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership with his See also:

FATHER

father Amasa Goodyear for the manufacture of hardware. Vulcanized rubber overshoes were first made in Naugatuck, and in 1843 the Goodyear's Metallic Rubber See also:

SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

Shoe See also:

COMPANY

Company was established here. The township was formed from parts of Waterbury, See also:

BETHANY (mod. el-'Azariyeh)

Bethany and See also:

Oxford, and was incorporated in 1844; the borough was chartered in 1893; and the two were combined in 1895.

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