Waterbury
a city in New Haven co., Conn.; at the confluence of the Naugatuck, Great Brook, and Mad rivers, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the New England railroads; 33 miles S. W. of Hartford. Here are the Academy of Notre Dame, St. Margaret's School (P. E.), a high school, a Masonic Temple, a State armory, public library with over 50,000 volumes, many handsome churches and residences, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National savings, and other banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. Waterbury is famous as the center of a vast manufacturing business in watches and clocks and is the first city in the United 312 WATER-COLOR PAINTING States in brass manufactures. Other manufactures include buttons, plated ware, pins, hooks and eyes, percussion caps, carriages, lamps, etc. The metal working industries were established here prior to 1800, and for a long period Waterbury was the only city in the United States engaged in these industries. The town was incorporated in 1686, and received its city charter in 1853. In F February, 1902, a large part of the business section of the city was destroyed by fire, but it was quickly ly rebuilt. Waterbury was one of the chief producers of munitions during the World War. Pop. (1910) 73,141; (1920) 91,- 715.