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Rail service in Naugatuck dates back to the 1840s with the establishment of the Naugatuck Railroad. The Naugatuck was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which built a new station house between 1908 and 1910, and opened it in 1911. The old station was designed by Henry Bacon, one of America's foremost architects. [6]
The Naugatuck Railroad is a common carrier railroad owned by the Railroad Museum of New England and operated on tracks leased from the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The original Naugatuck Railroad was a railroad chartered to operate through south central Connecticut in 1845, with the first section opening for service in 1849.
Efforts came to fruition in September 1996 when the current Naugatuck Railroad commenced a tourist scenic train over the 19.6 miles (31.5 km) of the Naugatuck Railroad's right-of-way that had opened for service in September 1849. [2] The railroad is headquartered at Thomaston station, built in 1881 and last used by passengers in 1958.
The station sat empty until the mid-1980s, when a group of investors renovated it as a luxury hotel, leaving the massive, 200-foot-long train shed behind the building untouched. A fire damaged the ...
The Naugatuck Center Historic District encompasses the historic civic and business center of Naugatuck, Connecticut. Centered around the town green, the district includes churches, schools and municipal buildings, many from the late 19th or early 20th centuries, as well as a diversity of residential architecture.
The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, a National Historic Landmark and New York City Landmark. As with many commuter railroad systems of the late-20th Century in the United States , the stations exist along lines that were inherited from other railroads of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
The city of New Haven is the location of 70 of these properties and districts, including 9 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the 207 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county, including one National Historic Landmark (Henry Whitfield House), are listed here. Three sites appear in both lists.
Naugatuck (/ ˈ n ɔː ɡ ə t ʌ k / NAW-gə-tuhk) is a consolidated borough and town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.The town, part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, had a population of 31,519 as of the 2020 Census.