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We would like to provide the residents of  Naugatuck  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Naugatuck Home page. The Naugatuck Home page provides as much information as possible on Naugatuck. Knowing Naugatuck’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Naugatuck’s Home page, you will also find Naugatuck’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Naugatuck has a population of 31201. 51.1% of Naugatuck’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.9 are female. 47.7% of Naugatuck is married and 67.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $185,999, and the average rent is $1,099. Household median income in Naugatuck is $77,967, and the individual median income is $38,616. Naugatuck’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.2%), Hispanic(12.6%), Black(8.6%), Multiple(5.7%), Other(4%), Asian(2.4%).


Naugatuck was settled in 1701 as a farming community in rural western Connecticut. As the Industrial Revolution commenced, Naugatuck was transformed into a mill town like its neighbors in the Naugatuck River Valley. Rubber was the chief manufactured product. Charles Goodyear worked at his brother's rubber company, the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company & Downtown Naugatuck, until the company was consolidated into the United States Rubber Company.


The United States Rubber Company (renamed Uniroyal Inc. in 1961) was founded in Naugatuck in 1892 as a consolidation of nine rubber companies, and maintained their corporate headquarters there until the 1980s. Their footwear division manufactured Keds sneakers in Naugatuck from 1917 until the 1980s.


U.S. Rubber also produced Naugahyde in a Naugatuck factory, but it is no longer produced there.The United States Rubber Co. formed the Naugatuck Chemical Company on June 1, 1904 due to an increase in the price of sulfuric acid, which was needed for the process then used for reclaiming old rubber. The company was soon in the forefront of the chemical industry in the United States.


Naugatuck Chemical remained a subsidiary of the U.S. Rubber Co. until it gained independence as Uniroyal Chemical Co. They moved their operations to Middlebury, Connecticut in the 1970s.The Risdon Manufacturing Company was established in Naugatuck around 1910 producing safety pins. Risdon became the manufacturer of packaging for cosmetics and sewing items such as pins, needles, snaps, and other accessories.


It is now the Crown Risdon Co., headquartered in Watertown, Connecticut.In the 1960s, Harold Barber founded H. Barber and Sons in the community. The company builds beach rakes for picking up debris and grooming beaches and claims to be the largest such business in the world.Naugatuck was the home to Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company, the Hershey Foods division that produces Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars, until the Hershey Co.


closed it in November 2007.The normally peaceful Naugatuck River that flows through Naugatuck overflowed its banks on August 19, 1955, fed by over 10 inches (250 mm) of rain from Hurricane Diane. The river cut a path of destruction that forever changed the face of Naugatuck. Naugatuck High School has a storied football rivalry with the high school in Ansonia that is one of the longest in America.


The two teams meet the morning of Thanksgiving Day, and the first meeting was in 1900. Ansonia is the long-term winner in the series. Naugatuck High School's mascot is the greyhound, and its colors are garnet and grey.


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