New Britain, Connecticut, USA
1895 - New Britain

New Britain, brit’t'n, a beautiful city of Hartford." Conn., in New Britain township, on the New York & New England Railroad, at the junction of the Berlin Branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 10 miles S.W. of Hartford, and about 18 miles N.E. of Waterbury. It contains 14 churches, 2 national banks, 2 savings-banks, the Connecticut State Normal School, and printing offices which issue 2 daily and 3 weekly newspapers. The city is lighted with electricity, and has an abundant water supply, a public park of 72 acres, and in the centre of the town a square adorned with trees and fountains. New Britain has extensive manufactures of hardware, cutlery, hosiery, jewelry, and locks. Here is the Russel & Erwin Company, whose works cover 5 acres of ground, giving employment to 500 men and producing millions of dollars worth of locks per annum; and here also is the American Hosiery Company, said to be the most extensive concern of its kind in the country. Lines of electric cars run from this city to Plainville and Berlin. Pop. of the city in 1880, 13,979; in 1890, 19,007; in 1894 (estimated) 22,000.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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