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Thomaston| Town in northwestern Connecticut, on the Naugatuck River, 13 km/8 mi north of Waterbury; population (1990) 6,900. It is best known as the home and workplace of Seth Thomas, who established his clockmaking business here in 1812. |
| Other industries in the area include the manufacture of brass, glass, and machinery and market gardening. |
Thomaston| City and administrative headquarters of Upson County, west-central Georgia, 60 km/37 mi west of Macon; population (1990) 9,100. It manufactures textiles and processes timber; the area produces fruit. |
Thomaston| Town in south-central Maine, on the St George River, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, just southwest of and adjoining Rockland; population (1990) 3,300. It is a popular yachting port, and home to Thomaston State Prison and a large cement works. Other industries include food canning and the manufacture of fabric and steel products. |
| It was a trading post around 1630, a fort in 1719, and a former shipbuilding centre. Montpelier, a reproduction of the Revolutionary general Henry Knox's 1793 home, is in the town. |
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