Waterbury, Connecticut "Waterbury" and "Brass City"
Waterbury and Brass City .
Waterbury, Connecticut Waterbury horizon from west, with Union Station clock fortress at left Waterbury horizon from west, with Union Station clock fortress at left Official seal of Waterbury, Connecticut Waterbury is positioned in the US Waterbury - Waterbury Waterbury (nicknamed "The Brass City") (pronounced w -t r-b ri) is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles (45 minutes) southwest of Hartford and 77 miles (90 minutes) northeast of New York City.
Waterbury is in New Haven County, Connecticut.
As of the 2010 census, Waterbury had a populace of 110,366, making it the 10th biggest city in the New York Metropolitan Area, 9th biggest city in New England and the 5th biggest city in Connecticut. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Waterbury had large industrialized interests and was the dominant center in the United States for the manufacture of brassware (including castings and finishings), as reflected in the nickname the "Brass City" and the city's motto Quid Aere Perennius? Waterbury is also home to Post University and the county-wide campuses of the University of Connecticut, University of Bridgeport, Western Connecticut State University as well as Naugatuck Valley Community College.
The territory was originally inhabited by Native Americans and as stated to Samuel Orcutt's history, the colonial pioneer of Waterbury "found it expedient to purchase the same lands from different tribes, without attempting to decide between their rival claims." The initial settlement of Waterbury in 1674 was in the region now known as the Town Plot section.
When the settlement was admitted as the 28th town in the Connecticut Colony in 1686, the name was changed to Waterbury in reference to the various streams that emptied into the Naugatuck River from the hills on either side of the valley.
Growth was slow amid Waterbury's first hundred years, the lack of arable territory due to the constant flooding of the Naugatuck River in particular, discouraged many potential settlers.
After a century, Waterbury's populace numbered just 5,000. Waterbury emerged as an early American industrialized power in the early 19th century when the town/city began to manufacture brass, harnessing the waters of the Mad River and the Naugatuck River to power the early factories. The new brass trade thriving many immigrant workers from all over the world, dominant to an influx of diverse nationalities. Waterbury was incorporated as a town/city in 1853 and, as the "Brass Capital of the World", it attained a reputation for the character and durability of its goods.
Brass and copper supplied by Waterbury was prominently used in Nevada's Boulder Dam and found myriad applications athwart the United States, as well.
Another famous Waterbury product of the mid-19th century was Robert H.
After this, the clock trade became as meaningful as Waterbury's famed brass industry.
Evidence of these two meaningful industries can still be seen in Waterbury, as various clocktowers and old brass factories have turn into landmarks of the city.
The city's metal manufacturing mills (Scovill Manufacturing, Anaconda American Brass, and Chase Brass & Copper were the largest) occupied more than 2 million square feet (180,000 m2) and more than 90 buildings.
Waterbury's Fr.
Mc - Givney established the Knights of Columbus in New Haven, Connecticut, on February 2, 1882. Although the first councils were all in Connecticut, the Order spread throughout the United States in the following years.
The first Unico Club was established in Waterbury in 1922.
The Waterbury Clock Company produced the Mickey Mouse watch in 1933 under the Ingersoll brand.
W1 - XBS in Waterbury was one of only four airways broadcasts in the nation that began experimental high fidelity transmitting in 1934.
Victor Zembruski started his Polish Eagles show on Waterbury airways broadcast WATR in 1934.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.0 square miles (75.0 km2), of which 28.5 square miles (73.9 km2) is territory and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km2), or 1.46%, is water. Waterbury lies in the humid continental climate zone, and normally sees cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers.
Climate data for Waterbury, Connecticut Waterbury's neighborhoods are shaped by the history and geography of the city.
Commuting in the Greater Waterbury region consists of multiple enhance transit options.
CT Transit operates a momentous amount of town/city buses running from the town/city center at Exchange Place to various neighborhoods in the city. Metro-North Railroad runs commuter trains multiple times a day between the Waterbury station and Bridgeport, with connections to Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
Waterbury's Union Station, assembled in 1909 for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, is now closed for use as a stockyards station and part of the building is now the command posts of the Republican-American newspaper. Passengers traveling to and from Waterbury board and alight on a concrete platform adjoining to the old station.
There are no ticket agents at Waterbury, which is presently the end of the line for the Waterbury Branch.
The interchange is ranked as one of the most heavily congested traffic areas in the New York/Connecticut region. Waterbury Oxford Airport is the major airport serving the city.
The lesser Waterbury Airport is about four miles from the city's central company district.
Waterbury has a heavy Italian-American populace with 21.46% of its inhabitants claiming Italian heritage. The Italian influence is especially strong in the Town Plot, Brooklyn, and North End neighborhoods. Additionally, the town/city is home to grow Albanian, Cape Verdean, Dominican, Brazilian, Jamaican, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican communities.
Waterbury has strong Irish roots as well, especially in the Washington Hill section which is home to the city's annual St.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Waterbury had a burgeoning Orthodox Jewish population. According to the 2014 5-year American Community Survey (conducted 2010 2014, data released December 3, 2015), the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $41,136, compared to $69,899 statewide.
In Waterbury, 24.2% of the population, or 26,122 inhabitants of the city, lived below the poverty line, compared to 10.5% statewide.
In Waterbury, 36.8% of the child populace age 0 17, or 9,984 kids in the city, lived below the poverty line, compared to 14% statewide. Waterbury had a momentous Jewish populace beginning in the late 1800s, initially as a result of German immigration.The first Jewish house of worship in Waterbury opened in 1872 In the early 20th century, almost 9,000 Jews immigrated from Eastern Europe, with many fleeing persecution.
The Orthodox Jewish improve has experienced a renaissance since 2000 due to accomplishments by educators and developers to problematic an affordable alternative to the high cost of living in established Orthodox communities in New York and New Jersey.
This renaissance began with the beginning of the Yeshiva K'tana of Waterbury in 2000; as of 2014, this full-service elementary and middle school has nearly 400 students.
Other educational establishments are the Yeshiva Gedolah of Waterbury, which includes a mesivta high school and beit medrash (undergraduate) program for approximately 230 students, a Bais Yaakov school for girls, and a kolel.
As of the end of 2014, the Waterbury Orthodox improve numbers 180 families and includes a mikveh, eruv, and improve services such as Hatzalah and Chaverim. Waterbury's economic diminish in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in it being ranked as having the worst character of life of 300 U.S.
Waterbury was also rated as one of the "Worst Places for Businesses and Careers in America" by Forbes Magazine in April 2008. Regardless, the town/city was titled on the 100 Best Places to Raise a Family list in the same year. According to the city's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 City of Waterbury 3,811 2 Waterbury Hospital 1,541 Waterbury has about 52,000 registered voters, of whom about 24,000 are Democrats.
Monagan, who was a prolific author in addition to his political responsibilities, served as Waterbury's mayor from 1943 to 1948.
George Harlamon, a member of the Waterbury Hall of Fame, was the city's 40th mayor.
Lieberman once joked that upon his death, he hoped to be buried in Waterbury so he could remain politically active. Waterbury's scandalous past dates back to 1940 when Mayor T.
Frank Hayes and 22 the rest were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the City of Waterbury.
Ironically, what appeared to have been a defeat for Hayes was not really a victory for Pape, and the stage was set for further corruption in Waterbury in the second half of the 20th century.
Waterbury was in serious financial straits due to years of mismanagement, resulting in the city's finances being taken over by the State of Connecticut.
The State Oversight Board oversaw town/city company for a several years and have since left following consecutive years of balanced budgets.
The successors to Philip Giordano, former Acting Mayor Sam Caligiuri (2001) and former mayor Michael Jarjura (2001 2011) managed the town/city without primary controversy since 2001.
Democrat Neil O'Leary was propel the 46th Mayor of Waterbury on November 9, 2011.
As of July 2012, the Mayor of Waterbury earns an annual full time pay of $119,306. A number of presidential candidates have campaigned in Waterbury due to its pivotal part in statewide elections.
Shortly after the Democratic primary, Tom Swan, campaign manager for Lieberman's opponent Ned Lamont, described Waterbury as a place where "the forces of slime meet the forces of evil," after a large majority of the town's voters backed Lieberman.
In January 2008 Waterbury Mayor Michael Jarjura announced that he would hire Rowland as an economic evolution advisor for the city.
Rowland began work in February that year receiving an annual full time pay of $95,000 as the city's economic evolution coordinator funded in conjunction with the Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce. Later that year, following his victory over then Mayor Jarjura, new Mayor Neil O'Leary created the position of Economic Development Director as part of his new administration, removing the duties from the Chamber of Commerce and bringing them directly into City Hall, making Economic Development a cornerstone of his administration.
Waterbury is home to Connecticut's Consulate General of Portugal, which has its office downtown on East Main Street. Waterbury is home to a total of 42 schools.
That number breaks down to 9 high schools, 3 middle schools, 26 elementary schools (private & public), 2 Jewish schools and 5 colleges/universities.
The city's enhance schools are directed by Waterbury Public Schools under the leadership of superintendent Dr.
Waterbury at one time had the designation of the most catholic schools in the state.
Waterbury Arts Magnet School Waterbury Career Academy Waterbury Enlightenment School (alternative school for middle to high school age students with behavioral or truancy problems) Brass City Charter School (K-8) Waterbury Christian Academy Yeshiva Gedolah of Waterbury Yeshiva K'tana of Waterbury University of Connecticut (Regional Campus / Downtown Waterbury) The town/city of Waterbury is protected by the paid, full-time firefighters of the Waterbury Fire Department (WFD).
The Waterbury Police Department (WPD) was established in 1853.
Headquarters is at 255 East Main Street, while the Waterbury police academy is positioned at the Waterbury Police Department Annex at 240 Bank Street.
Waterbury Republican-American A Waterbury-based autonomous daily journal Waterbury Observer An autonomous monthly journal WATR Radio station transmitting at 1320 AM with an oldies and news/talk format, only station that is transmitting in Waterbury The Union Station Clocktower is Waterbury's most prominent landmark Constructed by the architectural firm of Mc - Kim, Mead & White of New York for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, the Union Station on Meadow Street was modeled after the Torre del Mangia at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy.
Union Station is now the home of the Waterbury Republican-American newspaper, and the city's Metro-North barns station is on a platform next to the building.
In 1997 the stadium became home to the Waterbury Spirit which spent four seasons in the Independent League.
It is now used for sporting affairs, primarily football and baseball, for most of the city's high schools and Little Leagues.
Women's softball pitcher Joan Joyce hit out Ted Williams, Dom Di - Maggio, and Johnny Pesky in order in the stadium, and in 1947 a several members of the New York Yankees including Joe Di - Maggio, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, and Spec Shea, played an exhibition game against the Waterbury Timers in the stadium.
Exchange Place, the transit and market seat of Waterbury, in the early 1950s The Apothecary Building, the focal point of Exchange Place in the center of Waterbury at the intersection of South Main and Bank streets, was assembled in 1893 and homed the Apothecaries Hall Pharmacy for over 70 years.
In August 2010, PM Architecture in New York City announced plans to convert the Apothecary, into 12 luxury apartements.
Sculpted by former Waterbury resident George Edwin Bissell as a tribute to the whole Civil War experience, the 48-foot-high (15 m) bronze Soldiers' Monument on the west end of the Green was cast in Paris and cost $25,000.
Other Bissell works include the Memorial to Scottish American soldiers of the Civil War positioned in Edinburgh, Scotland, and many statues in Riverside Cemetery, including one of Waterbury Civil War hero, Col.
Joseph Anderson of Waterbury history fame, was encompassed in the Library of American Literature: Designed by Luis Fucito for the City of Waterbury for about $55,000, it was intended with respect to all those who have served in the wars of the United States.
Built in 1905, the Elton Hotel on the Waterbury Green was a grand hotel which served as the starting point for the "Ideal Tour".
The Cass Gilbert National Register District came about after nationally famous architect Cass Gilbert won a competition to design Waterbury's City Hall building on Grand Street, which was instead of in 1915.
Gilbert was then hired to design the Chase Headquarters Building (facing City Hall and now a municipal building housing the mayor's office); a bank building next to City Hall; the Lincoln House and the Chase Dispensary buildings on Field Street; and the Waterbury Club on West Main Street (demolished in the 1960s); and coordinated the landscaping of Library Park with the Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s.
A Christopher Columbus statue was instead of by sculptor Frank Gaylord of Barre, Vermont, for the Christopher Columbus Committee and the Waterbury Unico National Club at a total cost of $45,000, $25,000 for the statue and $20,000 for the base.
The Ben Franklin statue seated in front of the Silas Bronson Library on Grand Street was designed by famous sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett, a one-time Waterbury resident.
After culmination, it made a 22-city tour, with celebrations in each city, from Baltimore to Boston and then to Waterbury where it was dedicated June 3, 1921.
The Waterbury Courthouse on the corner of Grand and Meadow streets, with its graceful curved facade and brass-bedecked entranceway, was the command posts of the Anaconda American Brass Company for over 50 years.
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The Waterbury Clock Company buildings on Cherry Avenue were constructed in 1857.
The Great Depression sent the Waterbury Clock Co.
Olsen Shipping Co.) and Joakim Lehmkuhl of Norway amid World War II to aid in the war accomplishment, becoming the biggest producer of fuse timers for precision defense products in the United States. The business was retitled the United States Time Corporation in 1944 following its state of war success. Manufacturing operations here ceased when manufacturing was moved to a new factory in Middlebury, Connecticut, in 1942, and the buildings now home a several small businesses.
Holy Land USA was an 18-acre (73,000 m2) park in Waterbury, representing a miniature Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The cross was one of Waterbury's most beloved and prominent landmarks.
In October 2013, the smaller, un-illuminated steel cross was removed to make way for a new 52 feet (16 m) internally lit steel cross, dedicated on December 22, 2013.
Exhibits in the ground floor arcades reveal the history of Waterbury and encircling towns.
Looking east on East Main Street in Waterbury, Sacred Heart Church in center Another educational landmark of Waterbury is the Timexpo Museum. The exhibition, which is in what were formerly factory buildings of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, opened to the enhance in May 2001.
There are three floors of exhibits that explore the tradition of the world-famous Timex Group, tracing back to its early days as the Waterbury Clock Company.
Factory buildings near the center of Waterbury.
The Chase Collegiate School is a private day school formerly known as Saint Margaret's-Mc - Ternan established in 1865 by Chase Brass and Copper Company.
Minicucci's Men's Clothing Store, the earliest store in downtown Waterbury, closed in late 2009.
Downtown Waterbury Historic District Waterbury airways broadcast WWCO and disk jockey Les Davis were featured in an article in the April 25, 1955 copy of Life Magazine.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the most famous of James Thurber's short stories, is set in Waterbury in the 1930s. Waterbury-born John Fusco, noted screenwriter and novelist, wrote Paradise Salvage (Simon & Schuster 2001), a novel set in Waterbury.
Gladys Taber's romance novel, Give Me the Stars (1945), was set in Waterbury and in the Chase Brass & Copper Company's factory, giving vivid depictions of factory life amid World War II.
The Today Show on NBC was broadcast from the Hotel Elton on August 18, 1955, to cover the festivities for the world premiere of Waterbury native Rosalind Russell's movie The Girl Rush at the State Theater that evening.
A primary flood on August 19, 1955, caused over 50 million dollars in property damage and the deaths of 29 Waterbury residents; The Today Show provided live coverage of the flood to the country.
Waterbury appeared in Ken Burns' documentary miniseries The War as one of four American suburbs whose history and residents' experiences amid World War II were examined in depth. In the canonical 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, the chief character Willy Loman mentions Waterbury as one of his recent stops on a company trip. The musical Mad Bomber, written by Waterbury native Charles Monagan with music by Waterburian Richard De - Rosa, premiered June 2011 at Waterbury's Seven Angels Theatre.
The story, set in New York City and Waterbury, depicts the life and crimes (and capture) of Waterbury's notorious Mad Bomber, George Metesky.
The name "Waterbury" appears in the cargo hold on the ship when traveling athwart the ocean in the 2012 game Assassin's Creed III.
Waterbury is a chief gathering point for rebels in "Requiem," the third book in Lauren Oliver's Delirium Series.
Waterbury shares a name with the setting of the movie Happy Gilmore, although it never mentions what state the town/city in positioned in.
Contrary to the movie, there is no golf tournament titled The Waterbury Open.
Bristol, inventor and manufacturer, was born in Waterbury; invented the "Bristolphone" to simultaneously record voices and other sounds with motion in moving pictures Joe Cipriano, tv announcer (also known as Tom Collins on WWCO in Waterbury) for Deal or No Deal and 1 vs.
Bob Crane, actor, of Hogan's Heroes fame; born in Waterbury and had a radio program on WATR Mordechai Gifter, one of America's dominant Torah scholars, served as rabbi of Waterbury's Jewish improve from 1941 to 1945 Philip Giordano, former mayor of Waterbury (R), stripped of power in 2001 after a corruption investigation revealed alleged sexual acts with a minor and other possible pedophilia charges Harlamon, Mayor 1968 1970; propel to Waterbury Hall of Fame 2003 Annie Leibovitz, jubilated portrait photographer, born in Waterbury in 1949 Clare Leighton, artist and printmaker, buried in Waterbury in 1989 Baruch Levine, prominent Jewish music singer-songwriter, and rebbi (teacher) in the Yeshiva Ketana of Waterbury Two Moon Meridas, lived in Waterbury from 1914 to 1933 and claimed to be a full-blooded Pueblo Indian George Metesky (1903 1994), the "Mad Bomber" who launched a reign of terror in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s Neil O'Leary, mayor of Waterbury Rowland, Waterbury native and former Governor of Connecticut (R); resigned from office on July 1, 2004, after prolonged investigation for corruption Thomas Tessier, writer of horror novels and short stories, born in Waterbury in 1947 Margaret's School for Girls in Waterbury, but interval up in the Brooklyn borough of New York City "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Waterbury city, Connecticut".
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