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Moodus, CT - History
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Welcome to the Moodus Home page. The Moodus Home page provides as much information as possible on Moodus. Knowing Moodus’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Moodus’s Home page, you will also find Moodus’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Moodus has a population of 1802. 47.8% of Moodus’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 58.7% of Moodus is married and 60% own their own home. The Average Home price is $261,847, and the average rent is $1,112. Household median income in Moodus is $87,433, and the individual median income is $49,648. Moodus’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.4%), Hispanic(4.3%), Other(3.2%), Black(0.2%), Multiple(0.2%).
Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians, three of which tribes are known: the Wangunks, the Mohegans and the Nehantics. The name was derived from the Native American name for the area – "Matchetmadosett" or "Matchitmoodus", the place of noises, possibly because of earthquakes.
Numerous earthquakes were recorded in the area between 1638 and 1899. Loud rumblings, the "Moodus Noises", could be heard for miles surrounding the epicenter of the quakes near Mt. Tom. The land, which is now the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, was purchased by settlers from the Indians in 1662 for thirty coats – worth about $100.During the nineteenth century, Moodus was advertised as the "Twine Capital of America", with twelve mills in operation.
The most successful was Brownell & Company. Moodus was in an ideal location for textile production since it had access to ample water power and shipping (via the Connecticut River and the Connecticut Valley Railroad), and it was close to an enormous trading center and market, New York City. Moodus's mills primarily manufactured cotton yarn, cotton duck, and twine, and that production lasted from 1819 to 1977.
The mills also produced certain related products, particularly fishing nets and pearl buttons. A part of that textile mill history is preserved in the Johnsonville historical section of Moodus, named after one of the mill owners. Brownell was a pioneer with DuPont Corporation in the production of nylon products, and Brownell still manufacturers specialized textile-related products in Moodus such as archery bowstrings, helicopter cargo nets, and tennis nets.Moodus had many local resorts that operated during the course of the early and mid-20th century.
During the summer seasons of the 1940s and 1950s, people visiting the more than 30 Moodus-area resorts quadrupled East Haddam's population to about 20,000 people. Nearby Bailey Beach on Bashan Lake was popular with local residents and vacationers alike. The resorts, boarding houses and camps of Moodus attracted Christian and Jewish vacationers primarily from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and other parts of Connecticut.
One of the last resorts to remain in operation, Sunrise Resort, was purchased by the state of Connecticut in late 2008 to be incorporated into the adjacent Machimoodus State Park as a campground, and to protect "4,700 feet of additional frontage along the Salmon River".The village center, dubbed "Downtown Moodus", located formerly at the intersection of routes CT 151 and CT 149, was a popular destination for resort guests.
However most of the village was razed after the citizens of East Haddam controversially voted in 1967 to accept urban renewal funding to build a new commercial district for Moodus a quarter mile east, along CT 149. East Haddam was one of the smallest towns in the United States to participate in the urban renewal program.
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