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Naugatuck

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Naugatuck, city, United States

Naugatuck (nôg`ətŭk'), industrial borough (1990 pop. 30,625), New Haven co., SW Conn., on both sides of the Naugatuck River; settled 1704, inc. 1844. In 1843, Charles Goodyear Goodyear, Charles, 1800–1860, American inventor, b. New Haven, Conn., originator of vulcanized rubber. He failed in his earlier business ventures and was in jail for debt when he began his experiments with rubber, searching for a way to prevent it from sticking
..... Click the link for more information.  established the Naugatuck India-Rubber Company there. Rubber is still an important industry in Naugatuck. Other manufactures include candy, chemicals, brass and copper products, and plastics.

Naugatuck, river, United States

Naugatuck, river, 65 mi (105 km) long, rising in NW Conn. and flowing S, past Waterbury, to the Housatonic River at Derby. It furnishes water power for the remaining industrial plants along its shores. Thomaston Dam (completed 1960), built for flood control, forms a reservoir on the river.
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WATERBURY, CT Agathia (Puleshi) Bequary of Waterbury, Connecticut, died unexpectedly on Monday, January 19, 2009 at the Beaconbrook Health Care Center, Naugatuck, Connecticut.
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3 million approved by the Connecticut State Bond Commission, construction is underway on a 100,000-square-foot Technology Building at Naugatuck Valley Community College.
With $31.3 million approved by the Connecticut State Bond Commission, ... by Community College Week
In the heart of Connecticut's historical "Brass Valley," the company operates entirely indoors in a 100-year-old brass finishing mill alongside the Naugatuck River adjacent to the Ansonia Copper and Brass Mill.
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