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In an effort to increase business, the company built a restaurant near the end of track at Mansfield's Grove. The Momauguin, as the restaurant was known, opened for business on July 3, 1899 and operated at a loss, but increased ridership more than made up for that.


Momauguin is located close to the shores of Long Island Sound.

By 1898, the popular recreation area known as Lake Saltonstall was closed because the water was now to be used for drinking. In its place Momauguin's trolley tracks gave access to the shore. At first many Polish working people from New Britain area comprised the bulk of summer visitors.

The Momauguin Hotel was built by the Trolley Company at the foot of Momauguin Avenue (now Coe Avenue). It accomodated huge crowds on the lawn, beach, pier and in the 600 seat restaurant until it was gutted by fire in 1911. Other facilities with changing lockers numbering in the hundreds were built on either side of the hotel.



Mr. Humphrey's Flying Horses arrived in the 1920's. There was a huge metal water tower next to the hotel.


The hurricane of September 1938 devastated Momauguin. It began a long decline in this once attractive community.