Hattertown, Connecticut

Hattertown Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Roughly, jct. of Aunt Park Ln., Castle Meadow, Hattertown, and Hi Barlow Rds., Newtown, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°20′24″N 73°18′31″W / 41.34000°N 73.30861°W / 41.34000; -73.30861
Architect	Patchen, Isaac
Architectural style	Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	96001461 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 06, 1996

Hattertown is a

Hattertown takes its name from the hat-manufacturing trade around which the village grew in the early 19th century. "Hatting" was a major economic activity in western Connecticut in the 19th century, having started in Danbury in about 1780. Hats were made from felt formed from animal fur. As hat production increased, the manufacturing activity spread from Danbury to surrounding areas where the supply of fur-bearing animals such as muskrat, fox, and beaver had not yet been depleted.^[2]

A small village existed at the site of Hattertown before 1821, when the Taylor and Benedict families arrived there and began hat production. Hattertown was later to become one of the few places in the region where an entire village was directly involved in the hat trade. Hatting in the village was a

Hatting continued in Hattertown until at least 1856, but it was in decline by the 1840s as fur processing and hat forming were becoming increasingly mechanized and the local supply of fur-bearing animals was largely depleted.[2]

The Hattertown Historic District is centered on the Hattertown Green, which dates from the late 19th century and is bound by Hattertown Road, Hi Barlow Road, Gregory Lane, and the intersections of Castle Meadow Road and Aunt Park Lane.

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