The Pomperaug River is a 13.4-mile-long (21.6 km) river in the US state of Connecticut . The two main tributaries to the Pomperaug are the Nonnewaug River and the Weekeepeemee River ; their confluence forms the Pomperaug and Woodbury developed here. The river flows through Woodbury and the Town of Southbury , where it empties into the Housatonic River at Lake Zoar . The name of the river is from a local Native American language, likely Paugussset.
3-744: The locality of Pomperaug in Woodbury takes its name from the river. The Pomperaug is the namesake for the nearby Pomperaug High School . Several districts that developed along the river have now been designated as historic: Woodbury Historic District 1, Woodbury Historic District 2, the Russian Village Historic District and the South Britain Historic District . 41°26′31″N 73°15′20″W / 41.4420°N 73.2556°W / 41.4420; -73.2556 This article related to
6-525: A river in Connecticut is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pomperaug High School Pomperaug High School (PHS) is a public high school in Southbury, Connecticut . It is part of Regional School District 15 which serves Southbury in addition to Middlebury . Pomperaug was built in 1979 on the border between Southbury and Middlebury, the two communities which it serves. It
9-592: Is the only high school in Regional School District 15 , and receives students who have graduated from Memorial Middle School (in Middlebury) and Rochambeau Middle School (in Southbury). Previous to the building of Pomperaug High School, the region was served by Southbury High School, the now current Rochambeau Middle School building. On August 1, 2018, it was announced that Paul Jones would be
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