Danbury's third century
Subtitle: from urban status to tri-centennial
By: William E. Devlin & Herbert F. Janick
Contributors: Janick, Herbert F.
Publisher: Western Connecticut State University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Danbury, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780988924307; 9780988924314
Subjects: History
Description: "The central theme of this book is Danbury's unlikely transformation from being the proud capital of the nation's hat manufacturing industry into the hub of a region that Money magazine in 1983 ranked among the ten best places to live in the entire nation ... examines the craft and business of men's hat making in Danbury, tracing the decline of the industry ... and ... explores the burst of fresh energy that accompanied the introduction of high-tech industries in the postwar decades and the corporate boom in the 1970s and 1980s."
Notes: Includes index.

Notes on sources: pages 375-385.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The hat city (1889-1945). Prologue: Danbury in 1889: portrait of a new city; title: The price of progress; title: Making connections; title: A bloodless Civil War; title: Diversity; title: The Great War; title: "Prosperity, peace, and progress"; title: Depression decade; title: Home-front sacrifice; title: Part II: A fresh energy (1945-1985); title: Economic renaissance; title: For a better Danbury; title: A stone-age government; title: The lure of federal money; title: "This too is Danbury"; title: Blue collar to white collar; title: Retail revolutions; title: Regional core; title: Dealing with development; title: Changing demographics; title: Last days of Danbury's mainstays; title: Epilogue: past and present.