Waterbury is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Hartford and 77 miles (124 km) northeast of New York City. Waterbury is the second-largest city in New Haven County, Connecticut. According to the 2020 US Census, in 2020 Waterbury had a population of 114,403. As of the 2010 census, Waterbury had a population of 110,366, making it the 10th largest city in the New York Metropolitan Area, 9th largest city in New England and the 5th largest city in Connecticut.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Waterbury had large industrial interests and was the leading center in the United States for the develop of brassware (including castings and finishings), as reflected in the nickname the “Brass City” and the city’s motto Quid Aere Perennius? (“What Is More Lasting Than Brass?”). It was in addition to noted for the manufacture of watches and clocks (Timex).

The city is contiguously Interstate 84 (Yankee Expressway) and Route 8 and has a Metro-North railroad station with friends to Grand Central Terminal. Waterbury is also home to Post University and the regional campuses of the University of Connecticut, University of Bridgeport, Western Connecticut State University as with ease as Naugatuck Valley Community College.

The estate was originally inhabited by the Algonquin bands. According to Samuel Orcutt’s history, some Puritan residents of simple Farmington “found it expedient to buy the thesame lands from alternative tribes, without attempting to adjudicate between their foe claims.” The original settlement of Waterbury in 1674 was in the area now known as the Town Plot section. In 1675, the turbulence of King Philip’s War caused the new treaty to be vacated until the resumption of friendship in 1677. A new permanent location was found across the river to the east along the Mad River. The indigenous Native American inhabitants called the area “Matetacoke” meaning “the interval lands.” Thus, the settlement’s read out was Anglicised to “Mattatuck” in 1673. When the unity was admitted as the 28th town in the Connecticut Colony in 1686, the publicize was misused to Waterbury in insinuation to the numerous streams that emptied into the Naugatuck River from the hills on either side of the valley. At that time, it included all or parts of what sophisticated became the towns of Watertown, Plymouth, Wolcott, Prospect, Naugatuck, Thomaston, and Middlebury.