Named for a Mohegan word meaning "Pleasant Valley" Wauregan has a long history as an industrial village. In 1850, Amos D. Lockwood, who was involved with the Quinebaug Mill in Danielsonville, bought the water privileges and surrounding land at Wauregan. After the Wauregan Mills Company charter was approved by the Connecticut legislature in 1853, the first mill was constructed circa 1853–1854. Wauregan Mills was well known for its woven cotton goods, including various types of flannel. Lockwood became the mill's first agent and recruited James S. Atwood as his superintendent, who became responsible for setting up all machinery and starting production. The principal product of Wauregan was cotton sheeting.
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A Modern History of Windham County, Connecticut1920 · page 1675Read the page →
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Romeo Maynard, who was the sixth of the family, was reared and educated at Wauregan, attending the public schools, and later was employed at various places as he made his initial steps in the business world. In 1907 he began learning the bakery business with the firm of Blanchard & Jacques at Wauregan, after which he worked along that line in the employ of others until March 11, 1916, and then purchased the bakery business of Camiel Lague at Wauregan. He has since owned this business in connection with Joseph Brodeur as an equal partner. They have built up a trade of very gratifying proportions and their undertaking is now proving a profitable one.
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History of Windham County, Connecticut ..1889 · page 460Read the page →
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In the northwestern part of the town is the manufacturing village of Wauregan, having a Congregational church within its limits proper, and a Roman Catholic church on the opposite bank of the Quinebaug, in the town of Brooklyn. The village is under the control of a company in whose manufactory the people are employed. There are in the village one store and a large hall for concerts, lectures and the like. The village has a library of one thousand volumes from which any one can draw books
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A Modern History of Windham County, Connecticut1920 · page 1484Read the page →
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Dale, Windham county, where he was employed in the cotton mills. He was among the first of the French settlers to locate in that village. After eighteen months there spent he removed to Danielson and for a time was employed in the card room of the Sherman mills. In 1881 he became a resident of Wauregan and obtained employment in the card room of the Wauregan mills, there remaining until 1891, when he purchased the old Putnam farm of two hundred and eighty acres in the town of Brooklyn. He then bent his energies to the cultivation and development of his land and carried on farming successfully until 1904, when he sold the property to his two sons, George
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History of Windham County, Connecticut ..1889 · page 596Read the page →
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The factory village of Wauregan is partly within this township at its southeastern corner. Within this town is the Roman Catholic church called Sacred Heart. The building was erected in 1872, and opened for service in June of that year. A cemetery and ground connected with it contains twenty-four acres.
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