Products Made in Connecticut

Connecticut was one of the country's first manufacturing states. Around 1800, Eli Whitney's armory near New Haven worked toward interchangeable parts, and gun makers later filled Hartford and New Haven. The Naugatuck Valley rolled brass, giving Waterbury the name Brass City, and Bristol and Thomaston made clocks. Groton builds submarines for the Navy. Today the state's makers are small and specialized. WIFFLE balls have been molded in Shelton since 1959. Chapman makes screwdriver sets in Ansonia, in the old brass valley, and Lyman makes reloading presses in Middletown. Kenyon assembles electric cooktops and grills in Clinton, and Waring makes commercial bar blenders in Torrington. Bigelow Tea packs tea bags in Fairfield. CowPots are molded from composted cow manure on a dairy farm in East Canaan.