Everything Waterbury
I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Waterbury CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.
If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.
Museums
Albanian-American Cultural & Islamic Center Museum
Highland Package Beer Can Museum
Mattatuck Museum
The Timexpo Museum (Closed)
Waterbury Button Museum
Hikes
Mattatuck State Forest – Intro & Hikes
USACE’s Hop Brook Lake
CFPA’s Hancock Brook Trail
Waterbury’s Town Trails – Intro
Food & Drink
CT Chocolate Trail: Fascia’s
CT World Food Tour, Albania: Albanian Festival
CT World Food Tour, Iraq: Dunya Market
CT Beer Trail: Brass Works Brewing Company
CT Spirits Trail: Connecticut Distilling
Looking for your favorite restaurant? Here is an explanation as to why it’s not here.
Everything Else
US First: Brass Mill
US Oldest: Free-Standing Department Store
CT Art Trail: Mattatuck Museum
CT Freedom Trail: Hopkins Street Center
Hancock Brook Cascades
Library Park/Brass History Trail
Union Station/Rep-Am Clocktower & Clock
Welton Horse Fountain
Hobart Welton Carriage Shed
The Village at East Farms Covered Bridge
Holy Land USA
The Connecticut Store
Lakewood Road Post Office
Eastern Color Printing Company (Gone)
Ideal Fish
Radium Girls Memorial Way
World’s Strongest Police Officer
Palace Theater
Albanian Festival
College Football Tour: Post University Eagles
Carrie Welton, by Charles Monagan
Waterbury Wrap-Up
Completion Celebration TBD
Bob Melusky says
January 30, 2022 at 9:17 amDuring WWII, the 600 foot Chase Brass draw bench was considered one of the key wartime industrial assets, on a par with Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams. It was the longest draw bench in the world. I visited the location when there were plans to build the huge super-collider in Texas. One of my customers leased the facility to use the remaining 300 feet of bench that was not sold for scrap to draw low temperature superconductor (LTS) wire made from niobium, tin and copper. I wish I had a photomicrograph of the wire cross section after a tube full of rods was drawn into a fine wire and you could see each on distinctly under a microscope. The project was spiked after George H.W. Bush vomited all over the trade talks in Japan when were looking for funding. I hope some small section was saved for posterity, but I doubt it.