Naugatuck, Connecticut
Naugatuck, Connecticut Official seal of Naugatuck, Connecticut Naugatuck is a merged borough and town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
The town spans both sides of the Naugatuck River just south of Waterbury, and includes the communities of Union City on the east side of the river, which has its own postal service, Straitsville on the southeast (along Route 63), and Millville on the west (along Rubber Avenue).
As of the 2010 census, Naugatuck had a populace of 31,862. Naugatuck was settled in 1701 as a farming improve in non-urban Connecticut.
As the Industrial Revolution commenced, Naugatuck was transformed into a hardscrabble foundry town like its neighbors in the Naugatuck Valley.
Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company & Downtown Naugatuck (c.
Charles Goodyear worked at his brother's rubber company, the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company & Downtown Naugatuck, until the business was merged into the United States Rubber Company.
In 1961) was established in Naugatuck in 1892 as a consolidation of nine rubber companies, and maintained their corporate command posts there until the 1980s.
Rubber also produced Naugahyde in a Naugatuck factory, but it is no longer produced there.
Formed the Naugatuck Chemical Company on June 1, 1904, and the business soon was in the forefront of the chemical trade in the United States.
Naugatuck Chemical remained a subsidiary of the U.S.
The Risdon Manufacturing Company, established in Naugatuck around 1910, began by producing safety pins.
Naugatuck was the home to Peter Paul, the Hershey Foods division that produces Almond Joy and Mounds candy bars, until the Hershey Co.
The normally peaceful Naugatuck River that flows through Naugatuck overflowed its banks on August 19, 1955. Fed by over 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation from Hurricane Diane, the river cut a path of destruction that forever changed the face of Naugatuck.
Town history sign found on the Naugatuck Green Middlebury and Oxford are well-to-do suburbs that have higher performing school districts, but the price to live in these suburbs is high.
Naugatuck High School (c.
A Mc - Kim, 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.
The small-town high school, Naugatuck High School, has a storied football rivalry with the high school in Ansonia that is one of the longest in America.
Like the other rival high schools in the Naugatuck Valley, the two squads meet the morning of Thanksgiving Day.
Naugatuck High School's mascot is the greyhound, and its colors are garnet and grey.
The town of Naugatuck is affectionately referred to as "Naugy" by its residents.
Naugatuck has experienced momentous economic and budgetary enigma since 2009 resulting from the 2008 a recession and poor budgeting since then.
Even though the credit ratings has remained stable, reliance on one time revenues to pay for budget increases and increasing costs in the enhance employee union contracts has resulted in Naugatuck having one of the highest foundry rates in the state.
Currently Naugatuck's foundry rate is 45.57.
Naugatuck has a total of 5 enhance elementary schools (which include grades K-4), 2 enhance intermediate schools (grades 5-6), 1 enhance middle school (grades 7-8), and 1 enhance high school (grades 9-12).
In 2013, an $81 million renovation for the high school took place and was instead of by the fall of 2015 that brought the school up to date and back to mint condition. Naugatuck High School was ranked 149th best in Connecticut. Naugatuck is unique in Connecticut government for being the only merged town and borough.
Every other borough in Connecticut is a special services precinct positioned inside another town, the unit of Connecticut small-town government.
Naugatuck has both a town clerk and a borough clerk managing official records, the same as Connecticut metros/cities having two clerks: a town clerk and a town/city clerk.
As with most other Connecticut suburbs and cities, Naugatuck elect their officials in November of odd-numbered years.
Naugatuck is served by buses of the Waterbury Division of Connecticut Transit.
Route N1 joins the borough center to the Millville section of town, and Route N2 joins the borough center to the Straitsville section of town.
The town also 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).
Naugatuck Center Historic District: Roughly bounded by Fairview Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Terrace Avenue, Water Street and Pleasant View Street (added August 30, 1999) Before assembly 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 Office Naugatuck Main: Church and Cedar streets (added February 21, 1986) Michael Bergin, former Calvin Klein model and Baywatch actor; attended Naugatuck High School where he played baseball and basketball.
Nitro pulse, a intact art modern musician , attended naugatuck high school.
Charles Goodyear, first American to vulcanize rubber, lived in Naugatuck as a young man; his brother, Henry Goodyear, established the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company in Naugatuck that became part of the United States Rubber Company in 1892. Naugatuck State Forest "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Naugatuck town, New Haven County, Connecticut".
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"Naugatuck High School Ranked 149th Best in Connecticut".
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