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The Naugatuck Historical Society P.O
Box 317, 195 Water Street, Naugatuck, Connecticut 06770
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ALLERTON IRON
WORKS
Allerton Iron Works, Naugatuck, Connecticut Our Society recent received a letter from the Wooster, Ohio, fire department telling how the county historical society had purchased n 1869 Allerton Steam fire engine built by the Allerton Iron Works Manufacturing Company of Naugatuck, CT. The steamer had been in the fire department's possession until the early 1950s when it was sold to a collector. Now it is "back home" and will be put on a permanent display at their historical society as an antique piece of fire apparatus. The Allerton Iron Works was located in Naugatuck on Church Street in the mid-1800s about where the municipal parking lot now stands. The Allerton family was once prominent in Naugatuck and has a street named for them in the western part of town where they lived in the early 1900s. An 1883 map also shows property on Terrace Avenue, Meadow Street and Church Street as belonging to George M. Allerton. He is listed in the late 1800's as being President of the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company. The Allerton Iron Works evidently went out of business before the 1880s. Taken from the May/June 2001 issue of the Naugatuck Historical Society Newsletter
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