Connecticut Real Estate & Relocation Guide

Watertown, Connecticut

Population: 21,661

Located in Litchfield County

The local Pauqasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The first Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738, and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown and soon became the crossroads of a number of early highways.

John Trumbull, poet of the Revolutionary War, lawyer and judge, was born here in 1750.
Products that were first manufactured here include: Merritt Hemingway's Spooled Lock-Stitch in 1847, Wheeler and Wilson's Watertown Manufacturing Company's plastic shatterproof dinnerware in the 1940's, and in 1842 the Watertown Pin company was one of the first pin factories in this country.

A council manager form of government in 1961 replaced more than one hundred and eighty years of the town meeting - selectman type. Watertown has been home of the Taft School, a college-preparatory institution since 1893.