Waterbury
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- Names
Waterbury
Mattatuck Plantation
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located at mouth of Naugatuck and Mad rivers in central Connecticut; in 1674, 31 families developed Mattatuck Plantation, which was later incorporated into Waterbury; brass center during 19th cen.; produced famous "dollar" watches during 1800s.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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