Fabric Firehose

company, in this photo led me to notice this about Newtown, Ct:

1839 – Charles Goodyear invented vulcanizing rubber at a shop in the glen in Sandy Hook. This gave rise to the American rubber industry (as well as a rubber factory in Rocky Glen).

prior to the Civil War – S. Curtis & Sons Company manufactured paperboard boxes at the mill pond in Berkshire, two miles upriver on the Pootatuck. The New York Belting and Packing Company built large mills on the lower Pootatuck in Rocky Glen.

Later, the Fabric Fire Hose Company established.

Scrabble also found it's start in Newtown.