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Terramuggus is a census-designated place in the town of Marlborough in Hartford County, Connecticut, containing the town center village and surrounding areas and centered on Lake Terramuggus.

Terramuggus had a population of 990 at the 2020 census, and the 2020 census counted 418 housing units in the census-designated place.

Lake Terramuggus is owned by the town of Marlborough, covers 83 acres, has a maximum depth of 43 feet and a mean depth of 21.4 feet, and has a public boat launch for Marlborough residents, with boat motors greater than 3.3 horsepower banned.

Connecticut Route 2 forms the northeastern boundary of the Terramuggus census-designated place, with access at Exit 13, and Connecticut Route 66 forms its southeastern side.

The colonial General Assembly designated the area an ecclesiastical society and named it Marlborough in 1747, and in 1803 the General Assembly incorporated Marlborough as a distinct town, taking land from Colchester, Hebron, and Glastonbury.

Sadler's Ordinary, believed to have been built about 1653 near Lake Terramuggus, entertained travelers on the Path to Monhege between the Thames and Connecticut Rivers, and the first schoolhouse in Marlborough was built in 1760.

Marlborough Tavern, which opened late in the colonial period and is still serving the public, stands near the lake, and local industry, chiefly textiles, was spurred by the New London Turnpike during the 19th century but vanished with the burning of the last mill in 1907.

Mary Hall of Marlborough, an educator, became in 1882 the first woman lawyer to be admitted to practice at the bar of Connecticut.

Terramuggus covers 1.28 square miles, of which 1.15 square miles are land and 0.13 square miles are water, and it sits at an elevation of 463 feet.

At the 2000 census, Terramuggus had 1,048 people and 389 households, with a median age of 38 years and a median household income of $64,844.