Madupatty Estate comprises of the erstwhile Chokanad and Grahamsland estates which was amalgamated in the years 2004/05 & 2005/06 respectively. It is surrounded by Gundumallay, Guderale, Letchmi and Nullatanni estates.
The name of this estate originated from the word village of cattle Madu which means cattle, Patty meaning village. Another story on its origin is that the present Madupatty reservoir used to be abundant with wild indian gaur before the dam was constructed.
This estate comprises of nine divisions in total and two factories, one being Madupatty Factory and the other Chokanad Factory
Madupatty estate prior to the great floods of 1924 used to house the headquarters of the company and the General Manager bungalow. These were subsiquently moved to Munnar to its present location as the existing building in Madupatty were damaged beyond repair in the flood.
The floods also damaged the Kundalay Valley light railway which was used to transport goods from Munnar to Madupatty. That was followed by Ropeways, ie., Munnar to Madupatty, Madupatty to Chundavurrai, Chundavurrai to Top Station.
This estate hosts the Research & Development Department as well as the High Range School.
Madupatty Dam is situated within a kilometer from the factory. This was built in 1953 with a depth of 148 feet and the area of water reservoir is 323.75 hectare.
When the dam was constructed lot of tea areas, energy plantation and buildings including labour quarters, the factory and bungalows were sub merged by the waters.
The Grahamsland and Madupatty sections were frequented by wild life like Elephants, Bisons, Sambar etc.
Chokanad Division which girdles the Munnar town has many landmarks like Ladbroke House, which is named after Ladbroke Square in London, High Range Club, and the Ramasamy Aiyer Headworks, which is the tunnel inlet to Pullivasal Hydro Electric Station.
Grahamsland estate was named after Mr. Graham who was the former planter and had a small plantation and houses the present Madupatty Manager Bungalow.
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