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A U. S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a geographic territory. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders. States range in population from just under 600,000 to over 39 million, four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are divided into counties or county-equivalents, which may be assigned some local authority but are not sovereign. County or county-equivalent structure varies widely by state, State governments are allocated power by the people through their individual constitutions. All are grounded in principles, and each provides for a government. States possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have changed. The general tendency has been toward centralization and incorporation, with the government playing a much larger role than it once did. There is a debate over states rights, which concerns the extent and nature of the states powers and sovereignty in relation to the federal government. States and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a legislature consisting of the Senate. Each state is represented in the Senate by two senators, and is guaranteed at least one Representative in the House, members of the House are elected from single-member districts. Representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census, the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50, alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of states have the power to secede from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. White, as a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance
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Connecticut
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area and it is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport, the state is named for the Connecticut River, a major U. S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word Connecticut is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for long tidal river, Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is known as the Constitution State, the Nutmeg State, the Provisions State, and it was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Connecticuts center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticuts first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park, initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by England, the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, the Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition which continues today. The state also has a history of hosting the financial services industry, including insurance companies in Hartford. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index, and median household income in the United States. Landmarks and Cities of Connecticut Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island. The state capital and third largest city is Hartford, and other cities and towns include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain, Greenwich. Connecticut is slightly larger than the country of Montenegro, there are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut. The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state, the highest point is just east of where Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York meet, on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, whose peak lies nearby in Massachusetts. At the opposite extreme, many of the towns have areas that are less than 20 feet above sea level. Connecticut has a maritime history and a reputation based on that history—yet the state has no direct oceanfront
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Bear Mountain, highest peak in Connecticut
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Lake Mcdonough reservoir as seen from the Tunxis Trail Overlook Spur trail, Barkhamsted
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Bridgeport is a seaport city in the U. S. state of Connecticut. It is the largest city in the state and is located in Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, Bridgeport had a population of 144,229 during the 2010 Census, making it also the 5th-most populous in New England. It is bordered by the towns of Trumbull to the north, Fairfield to the west, the Greater Bridgeport area is the 48th-largest urban area in the United States and forms part of the Greater New York City Area. Bridgeport was inhabited by the Paugussett Indian tribe at the time of its English colonization, the English farming community became a center of trade, shipbuilding, and whaling. The town incorporated itself to subsidize the Housatonic Railroad and rapidly industrialized following its connection to the New York, manufacturing was the mainstay of the local economy until the 1970s. Industrial restructuring and suburbanization caused the loss of jobs and affluent residents, leaving Bridgeport struggling with problems of poverty. In the 21st century, conversion of office and factory buildings to residential use, the showman P. T. Barnum was a resident of the city and served as the towns mayor in the late 19th century. Barnum built four houses in Bridgeport, and housed his circus in town during winter, the first Subway restaurant opened in the North End section of the city in 1965. The Frisbie Pie Company was located here, and Bridgeport is credited as the birthplace of the Frisbee, the first documented English settlement within the present city limits of Bridgeport took place in 1644, centered at Black Rock Harbor along North Avenue and between Park and Briarwood Avenues. The place was called Pequonnock, after a band of the Paugussett, one of their sacred sites was Golden Hill, which overlooked the harbor and was the location of natural springs and their planting fields. The Golden Hill Indians were granted a reservation here by the Colony of Connecticut in 1639 that survived until 1802, a village called Newfield began to coalesce around the corner of State and Water Streets in the 1760s. The area officially known as Stratfield in 1695 or 1701 due to its location between the already existing towns of Stratford and Fairfield. During the American Revolution, Newfield Harbor was a center of privateering, Newfield initially expanded around the coasting trade with Boston, New York, and Baltimore and the international trade with the West Indies. The commercial activity of the village was clustered around the wharves on the west bank of the Pequonnock, in 1800, the village became the Borough of Bridgeport, the first so incorporated in the state. It was named for the Newfield or Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, Bridgeport Bank was established in 1806. In 1821, the township of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford, the West India trade died down around 1840, but by that time the Bridgeport Steamship Company and Bridgeport Whaling Company had been incorporated and the Housatonic Railroad chartered. The HRRC ran upstate along the Housatonic Valley, connecting with Massachusettss Berkshire Railroad at the state line, Bridgeport was chartered as Connecticuts fifth city in 1836 in order to enable the town council to secure funding to provide to the HRRC and ensure that it would terminate in Bridgeport. The Naugatuck Railroad—connecting Bridgeport to Waterbury and Winsted along the Naugatuck—was chartered in 1845, the same year, the New York and New Haven Railroad began operation, connecting Bridgeport to New York and the other towns along the north shore of the Long Island Sound
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Bridgeport, the
Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry, the United Congregational Church, St. Patrick's Church, and the P.T. Barnum Museum
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Iranistan, the residence of
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Sterling Block-Bishop Arcade, a Victorian-era
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1912 postcard showing Main Street in Bridgeport
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Stamford, Connecticut
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Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643. As of July 1,2014, according to the Census Bureau, the population of Stamford had risen to 128,278, making it the third-largest city in the state and the seventh-largest city in New England. Approximately 30 miles from Manhattan, Stamford is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk Metro area which is a part of the Greater New York metropolitan area. Stamford is home to four Fortune 500 Companies, nine Fortune 1000 Companies and this gives Stamford the largest financial district in New York Metro outside New York City itself and one of the largest concentrations of corporations in the nation. Stamford is also home to the Stamford Waterside Design District - a creative neighborhood and shopping destination dedicated to Interior Design, Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Native American inhabitants to the region, and the very first European settlers to the area also referred to it as such. The name was changed to Stamford after the town Stamford, Lincolnshire. The deed to Stamford was signed on July 1,1640 between Captain Turner of the New Haven Colony and Chief Ponus, by the 18th century, one of the primary industries of the town was merchandising by water, which was possible due to Stamfords proximity to New York. In 1692, Stamford was home to a famous witch trial than the well-known Salem witch trials. The accusations were less fanatical and smaller-scale but also grew to prominence through gossip, Stamford incorporated as a city in 1893. In 1950, the Census Bureau reported the population as 94. 6% white and 5. 2% black. In the 1960s and 1970s, Stamfords commercial real estate boomed as corporations relocated from New York City to peripheral areas, a massive urban redevelopment campaign during that time resulted in a downtown with many tall office buildings. Rich Co. was the urban renewal developer of the downtown in an ongoing redevelopment project that was contentious, beginning in the 1960s. Over the years, other developers have joined in building up the downtown, since 2008, an 80-acre mixed-use redevelopment project for the Stamfords Harbor Point neighborhood has added additional growth south of the citys Downtown area. Once complete, the redevelopment will include 6,000,000 square feet of new residential, retail, office and hotel space, as of July 2012, roughly 900 of the projected 4,000 Harbor Point residential units had been constructed. Stamford is situated near the point of Connecticut. There are still a number of references to North Stamford as a separate town, surrounding towns include Pound Ridge, New York to the north, Greenwich to the west, and both Darien and New Canaan to the east. The city has an area of 52.09 square miles, Stamford, like the rest of coastal Connecticut, lies in the broad transition zone between the cold continental climate to the north and the more mild temperate/subtropical climate, to the south
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Bank and Main Streets, from a 1911 postcard
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One Landmark Square, the second tallest building in the city, located in the heart of Downtown Stamford.
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Welcome sign in the city's Springdale neighborhood.
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Norwalk, Connecticut
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Norwalk, is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located in the New York metropolitan area. As of 2015, the population for Norwalk was 88,485. Norwalk, settled 1649, incorporated Sept.1651, Norwaukee shall bee a townee Algonkin noyank, point of land, or more probably from the Indian name, the city boundaries originally included parts of the current municipalities of New Canaan, Wilton, and Westport. Ancient records describe the boundaries as from Norwalk river to Sauhatuck river, from sea, thus a disputing source, and common tradition, describes Norwalks name deriving from the northern boundary extending from the sea covering one days north walk into the countryside. An additional source found this analysis to be improbable, given that the name Norwalk was used by natives, additionally a nearby river was known as the Norwake River when the area was first colonized. Roger Ludlows 1640 land purchase was from the Indians of Norwalke, the earliest town records list the city name as Norwalke The Connecticut Register, published in 1847, describes that the early Colony Records spelled it Norrwake. Around the same time, the elderly used the ancient pronunciation Norruck, Norwalk has a nickname, Oyster Town, due to its prominent oyster fisheries providing a large source of income to the city since the early 19th century. Norwalk Harbors islands and proximity to New York City make it profitable for oyster harvesting, discarded oyster shells along the Connecticut coast help prove the importance oysters had to pre-Columbian inhabitants of the area as well. In 2002 Norwalk was the location of the murder trial of Michael Skakel. After a four-week trial, Skakel was convicted on June 7 for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, the Methodist congregation had been formed in 1789 during the visit by Jesse Lee, but is survived by three other Methodist churches in the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 36.3 square miles. Norwalk, Connecticut, gets 45 inches of rain per year, the average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 100, on average, there are 179 sunny days per year in Norwalk, Connecticut. The July high is around 83 degrees, Norwalks topography is dominated by its coastline along Long Island Sound, the Norwalk River and its eastern and western banks, and the Norwalk Islands. The highest elevation is 282 feet above sea level, at the summit of Middle Clapboard Hill in West Norwalk, as of the census of 2010, there were 85,603 people,35,415 households, and 21,630 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,358.2 inhabitants per square mile, there were 35,415 housing units at an average density of 975.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 68. 7% White,14. 2% African American,0. 4% Native American,4. 8% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,9. 0% from other races, and 2. 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 24. 3% of the population,33. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Norwalk City Hall
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1847 Map of Norwalk
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1907 postcard showing Green's Ledge (Green's Reef) Lighthouse
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Danbury, Connecticut
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Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, approximately 70 miles from New York City. Danburys population at the 2010 census was 80,893, Danbury is the fourth most populous city in Fairfield County, and seventh among Connecticut cities. The city is within the New York metropolitan area, the city is named for Danbury, England, the place of origin of many of its early settlers. It is nicknamed the Hat City because of its prominent history in the hat industry, the mineral danburite is named for Danbury. Danbury is home to Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Fair Mall, Danbury was settled by colonists in 1685, when eight families moved from what are now Norwalk and Stamford, Connecticut. The Danbury area was then called Pahquioque by its namesake, the Pahquioque Native Americans, one of the original settlers was Samuel Benedict, who bought land from the Paquioques in 1685, along with his brother James Benedict, James Beebe, and Judah Gregory. Also called Paquiack by local Native Americans, the settlers chose the name Swampfield for their town, but in October 1687, the general court appointed a committee to lay out the new towns boundaries. A survey was made in 1693, and a formal patent was granted in 1702. During the American Revolution, Danbury was an important military depot for the Continental Army. On April 26,1777, the British, under Major General William Tryon, the central motto on the seal of the City of Danbury is Restituimus, a reference to the destruction caused by the Loyalist army troops. The American General David Wooster was mortally wounded at the Battle of Ridgefield by the same British forces which had attacked Danbury and he is buried in Danburys Wooster Cemetery, the private Wooster School in Danbury also was named in his honor. It is the first known instance of the expression in American legal or political writing, the letter is on display at the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Danbury. The first Danbury Fair was held in 1821, in 1869, it became a yearly event, the last edition was in 1981. The fairgrounds were cleared to make room for the Danbury Fair Mall, in 1835, the Connecticut Legislature granted a rail charter to the Fairfield County Railroad, which saw no construction as investment was slow. In 1850, the plans were scaled back, and renamed the Danbury. Work moved quickly on the 23 mi railroad line, in 1852, it, the first railroad line in Danbury, opened, with two trains making the 75-minute trip to Norwalk. The central part of Danbury was incorporated as a borough in 1822, the borough was reincorporated as the city of Danbury on April 19,1889. The city and town were consolidated on January 1,1965, the dam impounding the Kohanza Reservoir, one of many reservoirs built to provide water to the hat factories, broke on January 31,1869
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Kohanza Reservoir disaster, January 31, 1869
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"Scene of the Disaster at Danbury", January 31, 1869
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Shelton, Connecticut
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Shelton is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 39,559 at the 2010 census, Shelton was settled by the English as part of the town of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639. In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Shelton was split off from Stratford in 1789, the current name originated in a manufacturing village started in the 1860s named for the Shelton Company founded by Edward N. Shelton — also founder of Ousatonic Water Power Company. The rapidly growing borough of Shelton incorporated as a city in 1915 and was consolidated with the town of Huntington in 1919 establishing the present city of Shelton, Shelton was the site of one of the largest arson fires in the United States history. It happened in 1975 when the Sponge Rubber Products plant was set on fire, eight others were convicted or pleaded guilty. The explosion that destroyed the Sponge Rubber Plant on Canal Street in 1975 marked the start of the decline of Sheltons industries, in 1995, Sikorsky Aircraft closed a plant off Bridgeport Avenue that manufactured electrical components for helicopters. Major firms such as Tetley Tea, TIE Communication, I. T. T, Black and Decker, Sikorsky Aircraft, Gama Aviation, Chesebrough-Ponds, Tetra-Pak, General Electric, and Bunker Ramo. Over 2,000,000 square feet of office space spread across 12 buildings was constructed by the R. D. Scinto corporation alone. The 10-acre Riverwalk Park next to the Veterans Memorial was created on the site of the former Sponge Rubber Plant, in March 2008, Connecticut Governor M. In November 2007, a tree growing on Soundview Avenue in Shelton was selected and felled to be the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, on May 30,2008, producers and staff for the upcoming movie All Good Things shot one scene on Canal St. in downtown Shelton. The scene was underneath the trestle and involved one of the characters dragging a body. On July 31,2009, a line of thunderstorms with weak rotation spawned an EF1 tornado. According to WTNH, the most concentrated damage was along the Oronoque Trail, there were no injuries or fatalities. In November 2013, a located on Kazo Drive was picked to be the second Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from Shelton. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 31.9 square miles, of which 30.6 square miles is land and 1.4 square miles. The population density was 1,246.4 people per square mile, there were 14,707 housing units at an average density of 481.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 94. 44% White,1. 12% Black or African American,0. 15% Native American,2. 08% Asian,0. 89% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 48% of the population. 21. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.11
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Plumb Library, about 1905
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Town historical marker along
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Metropolitan area
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As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. The Greater São Paulo is a term for one of the multiple definitions the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil. A metropolitan area combines an urban agglomeration with zones not necessarily urban in character and these outlying zones are sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban zone, to other political entities. For example, El Monte, California is considered part of the Los Angeles metro area in the United States, in practice, the parameters of metropolitan areas, in both official and unofficial usage, are not consistent. Population figures given for one area can vary by millions. A polycentric metropolitan area is one not connected by continuous development or conurbation, in defining a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that a city or cities form a nucleus that other areas have a high degree of integration with. The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines statistical divisions as areas under the influence of one or more major towns or a major city. However, this definition has become obsolete with the conurbation of several statistical divisions into a larger metropolitan areas. In Brazil, metropolitan areas are called metropolitan regions, each State defines its own legislation for the creation, definition and organization of a metropolitan region. The creation of a region is not intended for any statistical purpose, although the Brazilian Institute of Geography. Their main purpose is to allow for a management of public policies of common interest to all cities involved. They dont have political, electoral or jurisdictional power whatsoever, so living in a metropolitan region do not elect representatives for them. Statistics Canada defines a metropolitan area as an area consisting of one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core. To form a CMA, the area must have a population of at least 100,000. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a degree of integration with the core. As of the Canada 2011 Census, there were 33 CMAs in Canada, including six with a population over one million—Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. In Denmark the only area is Greater Copenhagen, consisting of the Capital Region of Denmark along with the neighboring regions Region Zealand. Greater Copenhagen has an population of 1.25 million people
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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The
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Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
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Southwestern Connecticut
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The area is about 50 miles northeast of New York City, and is home to many wealthy NYC based business people. This area is often portrayed in culture as a bastion of wealth, despite not being on the coast, New Canaan and other landlocked towns are still generally included, with the Gold Coast boasting the historic and scenic Merritt Parkway as its centerpiece. With more land area, average values in New Canaan may be higher than Darien. With a higher population, a larger demographic weighs greater on the income in a town like Greenwich. This plus the 47 square miles in land area makes Greenwich essentially incomparable, New Canaan is also given an advantage, being well over 50% larger than Darien but still having a similar population. According to the 2000 US Census, New Canaan was first in per capita income, Darien second, however, per capita income does not take into account personal assets, homes, jewelry, art, boats or automobiles. Greenwich has the lowest mill rate, which may indicate higher property value, in 2000, New Canaan had a higher percentage of resident homeowners than Greenwich, which may indicate more wealth. According to some sources, the wealthiest town along the Gold Coast should be New Canaan because of their rate of home ownership suggesting a higher level of personal assets. More recently, another source named Darien the states richest town in 2011, an additional consideration is to measure wealth per person - not aggregate town wealth. Both the Adjusted Equalized Net Grand List per Capita Wealth Value, the AENGLC is based on the value of residential and commercial real estate, and measures the towns tax base available to pay for public education. It is not a measure of the wealth of individual residents. Yet another definition for the Gold coast is the one provided by the University of Connecticuts Five Connecticuts study and these are Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Weston, Wilton, Ridgefield, and Easton. A last method is to check the planning regions and this yields very similar results to the above method but adds Stamford and Norwalk while subtracting Ridgefield. A2015 Connecticut Post article named Darien the snobbiest town in Connecticut
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Easton, Connecticut
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Easton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,490 at the 2010 census, Easton contains the historic district of Aspetuck. The town is situated amongst Redding, Monroe, Trumbull, Fairfield, Weston, Easton is made of green terrain. Easton was first settled in 1757 by men from Fairfield, in 1762 a congregation called the North Fairfield Society was established, and it gradually evolved into Easton. In 1787 Weston, then including lands now defined as Easton, was incorporated out of Fairfield, the area was slow to develop because of the rough hills along the Aspetuck River, and so it was not until 1845 that what is now Easton separated from Weston. Today, half of the property is owned by the Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut. On June 1,1968, the deaf and blind activist Helen Keller died at the age of 87 in her Easton home and her house is still intact today and has been owned by several families since her death. The local middle school bears her name, the 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was a 76-foot Norway Spruce donated from a private residence in Easton. The farm has been owned and operated since it was founded in 1912. Maple Row Tree Farm is located at 539 North Park Avenue and it was started in the mid-1950s. During the 1700s it was a farm owned and run by the Edwards family. The farm is over 200 acres in size, and the Edwards family continues to own, during the Christmas season, visitors can choose and cut their own tree, or they can buy a pre-cut tree. Pre-cut trees are up to 12 feet tall, while trees to select, Silverman’s Farm is located at 451 Sport Hill Road. The farm was started in the 1920s by Ben Silverman, during the 1970s and 1980s Silverman’s became a pick your own fruit farm. In 2004 the apple cider mill was closed due to changes in the pressing standards, today apple cider is sold at Silverman’s Farm Market, but it is not made on the premises. Silverman’s has a farm which includes buffalo, llamas, sheep, pigs, goats, fallow deer, donkeys, emu. The farm also has tractor rides, an orchard, a farm market, Sport Hill Farm is located at 596 Sport Hill Road. It is a small sustainably operated farm providing fresh, healthy, founded in 2001, the farm raises chickens, goats, and dozens of other vegetables
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Town hall
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Easton Volunteer Emergency Medical Service
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Fairfield, CT
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Fairfield is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the towns of Bridgeport, Trumbull, Easton, Weston, as of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 59,404. In July 2006, Money magazine ranked Fairfield the ninth best place to live in the United States, the Massachusetts General Court granted them permission to settle in the towns of Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford which is an area now known as Connecticut. On January 14,1639, a set of legal and administrative regulations called the Fundamental Orders was adopted, by 1639 these settlers had started new towns in the surrounding areas. Roger Ludlowe, framer of the Fundamental Orders, purchased the land presently called Fairfield, according to historian John M. Taylor, Early in 1639 the General Court granted a commission to Ludlow to begin a plantation at Pequannocke. He was on that errand, with a few others from Windsor, afterwards joined by immigrants from Watertown, Fairfield was one of the two principal settlements of the Connecticut Colony in southeastern Connecticut. The town line with Norwalk was not set until May 1685, over time, it gave rise to several new towns that broke off and incorporated separately. The following is a list of towns created from parts of Fairfield, in a predominantly Tory section of the colony, the people of Fairfield were early supporters of the cause for independence. Throughout the war, a constant battle was being fought across Long Island Sound as men from British-controlled Long Island raided the coast in whaleboats, Gold Selleck Silliman, whose home still stands on Jennings Road, was put in charge of the coastal defenses. In the spring of 1779, he was kidnapped from his home by Tory forces in preparation for a British raid on Fairfield County. His wife, Mary Silliman watched from their home as, on the morning of July 7,1779, approximately 2,000 enemy troops landed on Fairfield Beach near Pine Creek Point and proceeded to invade the town. When they left the evening, the entire town lay in ruins. Fairfield recovered slowly from the burning, but soon after the end of the war its houses, world War I brought Fairfield out of its agrarian past by triggering an unprecedented economic boom in Bridgeport, which was the center of a large munitions industry at the time. The prosperity created a shortage in the city, and many of the workers looked to Fairfield to build their homes. The trolley and later the automobile made the countryside accessible to these newly rich members of the class, who brought with them new habits, new attitudes. The prosperity lasted throughout the twenties, by the time of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the population had increased to 17,000 from the 6,000 it had been just before the war. Even during the Depression, the town kept expanding, the grounding of a barge with two crewmen on Penfield Reef in Fairfield during a gale led to the 1st civilian helicopter hoist rescue in history, on November 29,1945. The helicopter flew from the nearby Sikorsky Aircraft plant in Bridgeport, Fairfield became the home of the corporate headquarters of General Electric, one of the worlds largest companies
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Monroe, Connecticut
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Monroe is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 19,479 at the 2010 census, like many of its neighbors, Monroe is largely considered a bedroom community of New York City and Bridgeport. Monroes neighbors are Easton, Newtown, Oxford, Shelton, the New York Times profiled Monroe in a February 2013 article called Living In Monroe, Conn. A Friend, in Need and Deed. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 26.3 square miles, of which 26.1 square miles is land and 0.2 square miles. The Pequonnock River begins in Monroe in Wolfe Park, inside this outer circle is a profile of a bust of James Monroe, who was the fifth President of the United States, serving from 1817-1825. The town of Monroe owns and operates the FM radio station WMNR, the Monroe Courier is the weekly town newspaper. The local online newspaper is the Monroe Patch, the school district for Monroe is called Monroe Public Schools and includes approximately 4,000 students, in three elementary schools two middle schools, and a high school. In 2011, the STEM Academy at Masuk High School was opened as an alternative option for 6th, 7th. One of Monroes schools was provided to its neighboring town Newtown, St. Jude School, a Catholic school with around 220 students, is located next to St. Jude Parish on Route 111, very close to Route 111s and 110s intersection. St. Jude holds a carnival in the lot in the back of the church every year in the end of August before the school year begins. The first selectman of the town dedicated a day to them, in 2005, they returned to the tournament in Rhode Island as 8th graders. After defeating Worcester and Boston, they lost to Hartford by 5, in 2006, the St. Jude boys junior varsity again won the New England CYO tournament, defeating Hartford, Connecticut. The town of Monroe features ten houses of worship representing numerous faiths. The combined departments operate a total of 1 Truck,1 Quint,2 Rescues,8 Engines,3 Tankers,2 Brush Units,1 Fire Boat,2 Utility Units,1 Squad, and 3 Command Vehicles. The combined departments respond to a total of over 1,000 emergency calls annually. The Fire Marshal is William B, Truck 312 Truck 314 The town of Monroe is served by Monroe Volunteer Emergency Medical Service. Founded in 1977, MVEMS provides pre-hospital emergency care and hosts emergency training such as CPR/AED, EMR
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Sign in front of Monroe CT Town Hall
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The East Village Barn Hill Schoolhouse of 1790
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Edith Wheeler Memorial Library in Monroe, Connecticut
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Stratford, Connecticut
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Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River, Stratford is in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was founded by Puritans in 1639, the population was 51,384 as of the 2010 census. It has a legacy in aviation, the military. Stratford is bordered on the west by Bridgeport, to the north by Trumbull and Shelton, in 1640 the community was known as Cupheag Plantation. By April 13,1643, the town was known as Stratford. By the late 17th century, the Connecticut government had assumed control over Stratford. Despite its Puritan origins, Stratford was the site of the first Anglican church in Connecticut, founded in 1707, other towns such as Cambria, New York were founded or expanded around new churches by Stratford descendants taking part in the westward migration. U. S. President Gerald Ford was a descendant of one of the Stratford founding families, Stratford was one of the two principal settlements in southwestern Connecticut, the other being Fairfield. Over time it gave rise to new towns that broke off. The following towns were created from parts of Stratford, Shelton in 1789. In 1789 Ripton Parish separated from Stratford and became the Town of Huntington.9 square miles, of which 17.6 square miles is land and 2.3 square miles, or 11. 52%, is water. Stratford has an elevation of zero feet above sea level along its coastline, with a maximum altitude of 295 feet near its northern border. The town contains five islands, all in the Housatonic River and these are Carting Island, Long Island, Peacock Island, and Popes Flat north of Interstate 95, as well as Goose Island. None of these islands are habitable because of their low elevations, a sixth island known as Brinsmade Island washed away prior to 1964. Town beach stickers are free for residents and $100/season for non-residents with daily rates available, Long Beach – Approximately 1.5 miles long, the eastern end of the beach is open to the public and has parking and lifeguards. The central part of the beach is a nature preserve whose land is set aside for wildlife, particularly nesting seabirds, such as kestrels and ospreys. The western end of the beach was once the site of about 40 cottages, the cottages were demolished in fall 2010
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Stratford Public Library, as seen in a 1909 postcard
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Stratford Point Light
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Cleanup of a Raymark Industries Superfund site, in Stratford
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Trumbull, Connecticut
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Trumbull is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut bordered by the towns of Monroe, Shelton, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield and Easton. The population was 36,018 according to the 2010 census, the northwest farmers of Stratford petitioned the Colony of Connecticut in 1725 to establish their own separate village apart from Stratford. The farmers wished to call their village Nickols Farms, after the family owned a large farm in its center. Unity merged with the village of Long Hill in 1744 to form the Society of North Stratford, after ten years of unsuccessful petitions, the Connecticut General Assembly granted complete town rights to Trumbull in October 1797. The town was named for George Washingtons staunch supporter, Revolutionary War Governor, patriot, statesman and merchant, the river leaves Trumbull and continues into Beardsley Park in Bridgeport. Major bodies of water include Canoe Brook Lake, Pinewood Lake, Tashua Hills Golf Club Pond, minor bodies of water include Dogwood Lake, Frog Pond, Kaatz Pond, Kaechele Pond, Porters Pond, Secret Pond, Thrush Wood Lake and Unity Park Pond. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 23.5 square miles, of which 23.3 square miles is land and 0.2 square miles. According to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1986, the highest point is the top of Monitor Hill at 615 feet above sea level. According to the U. S. Geological Society, at 615 ft Monitor Hill in Trumbull is the highest coastal point on the east coast of the United States, marked with a plaque on Monitor Hill Road. Trumbull has 871.23 acres of park facilities, the 382-acre parcel cost $9,275,000 and is maintained by the Department of Environmental Protection. Route 8 runs through the southeast part of town, Route 8 is a freeway that leads to Waterbury and Interstate 84, continues into Massachusetts as Massachusetts Route 8 and finally terminates in Searsburg, Vermont. Nichols residents petitioned the legislature and won a bypass for Route 8 which was proposed to be built directly through the center of the historic village in the early 1900s. Route 15, the historic Merritt Parkway, runs north to New Haven, Route 15 was built through Nichols center displacing a home, the old Nichols Store and Trinity Episcopal Church in 1939. Route 25 runs north to south, merging with Route 8 at the Bridgeport line, Continuing north on Route 25, the freeway ends as it crosses Route 111 and continues as a surface road towards I-84 in Newtown leading to Danbury. Route 108, also known as Nichols Avenue and Huntington Turnpike and it terminates in Shelton at the intersection with Route 110. Route 108 can be reached via exit 52 from Route 15 or exit 8 from Route 8, Route 111, also known as Main Street, begins at the intersection of Route 15 at the North End of Bridgeport. In 1801, the road connecting Bridgeport to Newtown was called the Bridgeport, from 1826 to 1852, the road from Trumbull to Stevenson was chartered as a turnpike and called the Monroe and Zoar Bridge Turnpike. Route 111 terminates at Route 34 in Monroe, Route 127, also known as White Plains Road and Church Hill Road, runs through the town center from south to north from the East Side of Bridgeport
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Seal
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Bicentennial Fountain.
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Trumbull's time capsule.
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Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Fairfield County is the southwestern-most and most populous county of the U. S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, the population was 916,829. The county contains four of the states largest cities, whose combined population of 433,368 is almost half the countys, the United States Office of Management and Budget has designated Fairfield County as the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area. As is the case with all eight of Connecticuts counties, there is no county government, as an area it is only a geographical point of reference. Other communities are more populated and economically diverse than the affluent areas for which the county is better known. Fairfield County was the home of many Native American tribes prior to the coming of the Europeans, people of the Schaghticoke tribe lived in the area of present-day New Fairfield and Sherman. From east to west the Wappinger sachemships included the Paugussetts, Tankiteke, there were also Paquioque and Potatuck inhabitants of Fairfield County. The Dutch explorer Adriaen Block explored coastal Connecticut in the Spring, the first European settlers of the county, however, were Puritans and Congregationalists from England. Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut, helped to purchase and charter the towns of Fairfield, Ludlow is credited as having chosen the name Fairfield. Fairfield is a name referring to the beauty of its fields. The town of Stratford was settled in 1639 as well by Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley was also one of the first settlers of Stratford in 1639. And it is ordered that the County Court shalbe held at Fairfield on the second Tuesday in March, the original Fairfield County consisted of the towns of Rye, Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Fairfield, and Stratford. In 1673, the town of Woodbury was incorporated and added to Fairfield County, in 1683, New York and Connecticut reached a final agreement regarding their common border. This resulted in the cession of the town of Rye and all claims to the Oblong to New York. From the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several new towns were incorporated in western Connecticut and added to Fairfield County, namely Danbury, Ridgefield, Newtown, in 1751, Litchfield County was constituted, taking over the town of Woodbury. Other early county inhabitants include, Joseph Hawley, who had emigrated to America in 1629 and then settled in Stratford in 1650, Joseph Hawleys son Ephraim built the Ephraim Hawley House in 1683 in Trumbull that is still standing and serves as a private residence. Thomas Fitch, from Norwalk, was a governor of the Colony of Connecticut, gold Selleck Silliman of the town of Fairfield fought for the Americans during the American Revolutionary War and rose to the rank of Brigadier General by 1776. He fought in the New York campaign that year, during the Revolutionary War, Connecticuts prodigious agricultural output led to it being known informally as the Provisions State
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Downtown Stamford
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A 1799 map of Connecticut. From
Low's Encyclopaedia.
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Preparing to re-launch the
USS G-3 with
sponsons from the
Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, December 9, 1915
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A 1930s
Sikorsky S-42 constructed in Stratford
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Milford, Connecticut
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Milford is a coastal city in southwestern New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, located between Bridgeport and New Haven. The population was 52,759 at the 2010 census, the city contains the incorporated borough of Woodmont and the unincorporated village of Devon. Originally, the area was known as Wepawaug, after the river which runs through the town. A grist mill was first built over the Wepawaug River in 1640, the site of the blockade is commemorated by the Liberty Rock monument. By 1822, the town had large enough that residents in the northern and eastern sections of Milford chartered their own independent course as the town of Orange. During the next century and a half, the section of Milford was known for shipbuilding, farming and oystering. During this time, Milford also became known as a resort for residents of New Haven. Interestingly, the boundaries of the town charter granted by the State of Connecticut in 1899 to Laurel Beach are contained entirely within Milford. Residents of Laurel Beach must therefore pay taxes to both Laurel Beach as well as Milford, and all mail to Laurel Beach residents is mailed to Milford. Also in 1899, the Memorial Bridge was built at the site of the last mill over the Wepawaug after it was closed in 1894. The stone bridge is simple in design, its broad copings surmounted with rough hewn blocks of granite, there are ten blocks on the south and twenty on the north coping. At each end of the former is a four feet wide by five. It is located where Broad Street crosses the Wepawaug River, in 1903, the southeastern portion of the town was incorporated as the Borough of Woodmont. In 1959, the town of Milford including the Borough of Woodmont was incorporated as the City of Milford, Milford was one of the early settlements in south central Connecticut and, over time, gave rise to several new towns that broke off and incorporated separately. The following is a list of towns created from parts of Milford, the lots, sometimes as small as 10 feet by 10 feet, were carved out of a 15-acre tract in a never-built subdivision called Liberty Park. A small number of children, often living near Milford, collected the deeds. The developer of the prospective subdivision hoped the landowners would hire him to build homes on the lots, one of the streets in the Liberty Park subdivision plans, Shelland Street, was later built in the late 1990s as an access road to the Milford Power Company. The site is home to the BIC Corporations lighter factory at 565 Bic Drive
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Aerial view of Milford's and harbor
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Flag
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The
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Ansonia, Connecticut
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Ansonia is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, on the Naugatuck River, immediately north of Derby, and about 12 miles northwest of New Haven. The population was 19,249 at the 2010 census, the ZIP code for Ansonia is 06401. The city is served by the Metro-North Railroad, Ansonia Station is a stop on the railroad passenger commuter services Waterbury line, connecting to New Yorks Grand Central Terminal. Ansonia also is served by the Connecticut Transit bus carrier, Ansonia, also referred to as The Copper City, is recognized for its history of heavy machine manufacturing industry in the lower Naugatuck Valley. Production included copper, brass, rubber and plastics processing, molding and tubing, iron castings, sheet metal, electric, automatic machine, textiles. The well-known Ansonia Clock Company was founded here in 1851, Ansonia is the birthplace of American Revolutionary War Colonel and Diplomat David Humphreys. The citys devotion to its high school team, the Ansonia Chargers, is legendary. Originally known as The Lavender, the Chargers annual game against arch-rival Naugatuck, early settlers developed subsistence farming, and used the river for sawmills and gristmills. In 1844, Anson Green Phelps, a merchant and philanthropist, unable to purchase the land from its owner, in 1844 Phelps acquired land along the east side of the river, today this is Ansonias downtown section. A canal was dug for river power to drive the factories and businesses in the new industrial village and he wanted to name the industrial village as Phelpsville, but learned there was another village in the region by that name. As suggested by a friend, Phelps Latinized his first name to create the name Ansonia, as industry developed, soon Ansonia became the most populous area of Derby, boasting many factories. The state chartered Ansonia as a borough of Derby in 1864 and amended it in 1871, in 1888, a petition was circulated in the borough of Ansonia for the purpose of becoming a separate township from Derby. In 1889 the State General Assembly granted the separation, constituting the Borough, Hilltop, West Ansonia and this was the 168th township in the state of Connecticut. In 1893, Ansonia was incorporated as a city, consolidating with the coterminous Town, in 1866, while residing in Ansonia, inventor Pierre Lallement, a native of Pont-a-Mousson, France, submitted a patent application for the first pedaled bicycle. Ansonia suffered grievous damage in the Flood of 1955 on August 19, submerging the land along the river, the flood destroyed many houses and businesses. The high river waters swept away Maple Street Bridge, one of two bridges linking the east and west sides of Ansonia, after the inundation, the authorities erected a flood wall along the east bank of the river to protect the citys factories and Main Street. On the west bank, federal public housing was built to replace blocks of destroyed homes and businesses on Broad Street, in the decades following the flood and suburbanization, Ansonias Main Street fell into decline as retail shoppers decamped to the Ansonia Mall at its far end. Later other malls attracted shoppers to nearby Milford, Trumbull, since the late 20th century, Main Street has been enlivened by he opening of several antique stores, a wine bar, a coffee shop, a Polish delicatessen, and other retail businesses
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Osman & Cheesman Factory (1907 postcard)
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Location in New Haven County,
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Christ Episcopal Church (1896),
Henry Martyn Congdon, architect.
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Ansonia Library (1892),
George Keller, architect.
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Beacon Falls, Connecticut
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Beacon Falls is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, on the Naugatuck River. The population was 5,246 at the 2000 census, the population increased to 6,049 at the 2010 census. Settlers from Derby, Connecticut moved to the Beacon Falls area in 1678, the town was incorporated in 1871 on lands carved from the neighboring towns of Bethany, Seymour, Naugatuck and Oxford. The history of Beacon Falls is tied to the series of manufacturing concerns that operated in the impressive brick factory buildings on North Main Street. The last and most successful of those concerns was the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries rubber manufacturing thrived in the Lower Naugatuck Valley. In the 1850s the American Hard Rubber Company built a factory in Beacon Falls. The company made buttons, whip sockets, and powder flasks, the Home Woolen Company thrived for 20-plus years until it became insolvent in 1887. In 1898 the two Lewis men bought the Home Woolen Company facility and started the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company, the new company enjoyed great success for over two decades. From 150 pairs of shoes manufactured in 1899, by 19205.5 million pair were shipped, the company specialized in rubber soled boots with leather uppers, and rubber soled athletic shoes with canvas uppers. The footwear was marketed under the name, Top Notch. The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company was a physical, economic. The resulting plan embraced the Tracy S. Lewis House and a neighborhood of homes above the factory. Tracy Lewis died prematurely in 1921 at age 47, marking the end of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company, after Lewiss death the company was acquired by the United States Rubber Company in Naugatuck, and the Beacon Falls athletic shoe was renamed Keds. Production in the elegant brick factory buildings ended during the Great Depression in 1930, in 1984 the brick factory buildings were placed on the National Register of Historical Places as the Home Woolen Company. In the late 1980s the buildings were converted to a 188-unit, the Depot Street Bridge, spanning the Naugatuck River across from the old brick factory, is also on the National Register of Historical Places. Built in 1935 of riveted steel, it was designed by engineers from the Public Works Administration, the bridge joins the two parts of Beacon Falls bisected by the river. A second major historical Beacon Falls business, where town residents worked over the years, was the Homer D. Bronson Company. In 1884 the company moved to Beacon Falls from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Homer D. Bronson Company manufactured a multitude of brass items, specializing in hinges used in industry and homes, automobile hood hinges were a major product
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Location in New Haven County,
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Derby, Connecticut
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Derby is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,903 at the 2010 census, Derby was settled in 1642 as an Indian trading post under the name Paugasset. It was named after Derby, England, in 1675, Derby was incorporated on May 13,1775. In the 19th century, both corsets and hoop skirts were manufactured in the city, in 1872, the Derby Silver Company began production. In 1898, the became a division of the International Silver Company headquartered in Meriden, CT. Charlton Comics, a book publishing company that existed from 1944 to 1986, was based in town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 5.4 square miles. The city is home to the 1.4 square kilometres Osbornedale State Park, Derby is divided into two main sections by the Naugatuck River, East Derby and Derby Center. The center of Derby is approximately 66 miles from New York City, as of the census of 2000, there were 12,391 people,5,252 households, and 3,245 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,487.6 people per square mile, there were 5,568 housing units at an average density of 1,117.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 90. 08% White,3. 62% Black or African American,0. 16% Native American,1. 74% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,2. 52% from other races, and 1. 82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 67% of the population,32. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the family size was 2.94. In the town the population was out with 21. 7% under the age of 18,7. 2% from 18 to 24,33. 0% from 25 to 44,21. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 93.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $45,670, and the median income for a family was $54,715. Males had an income of $42,367 versus $30,458 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,117, about 6. 9% of families and 8. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 1% of those under age 18 and 7. 8% of those age 65 or over
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Annual fireworks display from the Derby-Shelton Bridge
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Seal
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Derby High School, about 1909
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Oxford, Connecticut
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Oxford is a residential town located in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,683 at the 2010 Census, Oxford is the 26th-wealthiest town in the state by median household income. Distinct settled areas in the town include Oxford Center, Quaker Farms, Oxford belongs to the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area, a subregion of the New York metropolitan area. In the 18th century, farmers herded livestock through Oxford from as far away as Litchfield on the way to the port of New Haven, in the 19th century, the town lost population as farmers moved to work in better-paying factories. Oxford was incorporated in October 1798, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.3 square miles, of which 32.7 square miles is land and 0.58 square miles, or 1. 78%, is water. The towns bordering Oxford are Monroe, Newtown, Southbury, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, as of the census of 2010, there were 12,683 people,4,504 households, and 3,672 families residing in the town. Oxfords population increased 29. 1% between 2000 and 2010, making it the municipality in Connecticut for that period. The population density was 387.9 people per square mile, there were 4,746 housing units at an average density of 145.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 95. 5% White,1. 1% African American,0. 1% Native American,1. 5% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 6% some other race, and 1. 1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 7% of the population,14. 2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6. 1% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81, and the family size was 3.12. In the town, the population was out with 24. 3% under the age of 18,5. 8% from 18 to 24,23. 0% from 25 to 44,33. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 43.4 years, for every 100 females there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.9 males, Oxford belongs to Connecticuts 4th congressional district, which stretches from lower Fairfield County to western New Haven County. In 2016, the income for a household in the town was $137,766. The median home value was $405,900, a University of Connecticut development study spanning 1985-2006 showed that Oxford had the largest increase of development by percentage, growing 62% during that time. The median household income in town grew 20%, ranking Oxford the 26th wealthiest of 169 communities in the state. m, the people of Oxford and the Oxford Historical Society were honored for their work in preserving the Homestead, and designated with a Connecticut Trust Preservation Award. The award was presented in Hartford at the State Capitol on April 4,2012, the following is from the Connecticut Trust website, Built in 1755, this house has a long connection with prominent local families and is listed on the State Register of Historic Places
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Waterbury-Oxford Airport
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Location in New Haven County, Connecticut
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Seymour, Connecticut
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Seymour is a town located in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,540 at the 2010 census, Seymour is surrounded by the communities of Ansonia and Derby to the southeast, Beacon Falls to the north, Woodbridge to the east, and Shelton and Oxford to the west. Seymour was incorporated as a town in May 1850, and was named for Governor Thomas H. Seymour, the area that now encompasses the lands of the town was originally part of the town of Derby. The downtown portion of what is now Seymour was eventually called Humphreysville, named after Revolutionary War hero David Humphrey, aide-de-camp to General George Washington. Humphreys had purchased a factory in what is the portion of the town. In 1836, Humphreysville was incorporated as a borough within the town of Derby by the General Assembly, upon the creation of the town of Seymour in 1850, the borough government was dis-incorporated. The Town of Seymour, CT has its own department,2 fire companies. The Police Chief is Michael Metzler, the Police Department currently operates out of its headquarters located at 11 Franklin Street. The department was located at 4 Wakeley Street. The chief of the Fire Department is James Smith who is assisted by three assistant chiefs, the department consists of two fire companies each led by one captain and two lieutenants. The fire marshals office is located at the Town Hall and is staffed by a fire marshal and several deputy marshals. The Citizens Engine Company No 2 is located on DeForest Street with its primary response area being the downtown, Citizens Engine was organized in 1884 when the town purchased a Button steam powered fire engine. The original fire company, which was organized in 1882, was later disbanded, the current firehouse was erected in the 1890s and a few years later the hose / bell tower was struck by lighting, which severely damaged it, the tower was then dismantled and rebuilt. The current apparatus bay addition was erected in 1976, the Citizens operate two engines, one mini-attack / brush pumper, a heavy rescue, a tower-ladder and a hazmat unit. The Great Hill Hose Company was organized in 1945 to help improve fire protection to Seymours rapidly growing Great Hill, since the Citizens Engine Company was located downtown it took quite some time for the firefighters and apparatus to reach the west side area. The Company was first located on Great Hill Road near the old Grange building, since the Great Hill area did not have the luxury of fire hydrants, the company utilized ponds and also tanker trucks that carried water. Since the 1950s the Great Hill area continued to grow with new homes, the Great Hill Hose Company operates two fire engines, a water tanker truck, a heavy rescue truck, a mini attack / brush unit, a rescue boat and a utility vehicle. Seymour Ambulance Association was organized in 1969 and incorporated as an entity in 1972
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"Panorama From Castle Rock" of Seymour, from a 1905 postcard
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Downtown Seymour Historic District
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Seymour train station, 2012
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Seymour Welcome Sign
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Bridgeport
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Bridgeport is a seaport city in the U. S. state of Connecticut. It is the largest city in the state and is located in Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, Bridgeport had a population of 144,229 during the 2010 Census, making it also the 5th-most populous in New England. It is bordered by the towns of Trumbull to the north, Fairfield to the west, the Greater Bridgeport area is the 48th-largest urban area in the United States and forms part of the Greater New York City Area. Bridgeport was inhabited by the Paugussett Indian tribe at the time of its English colonization, the English farming community became a center of trade, shipbuilding, and whaling. The town incorporated itself to subsidize the Housatonic Railroad and rapidly industrialized following its connection to the New York, manufacturing was the mainstay of the local economy until the 1970s. Industrial restructuring and suburbanization caused the loss of jobs and affluent residents, leaving Bridgeport struggling with problems of poverty. In the 21st century, conversion of office and factory buildings to residential use, the showman P. T. Barnum was a resident of the city and served as the towns mayor in the late 19th century. Barnum built four houses in Bridgeport, and housed his circus in town during winter, the first Subway restaurant opened in the North End section of the city in 1965. The Frisbie Pie Company was located here, and Bridgeport is credited as the birthplace of the Frisbee, the first documented English settlement within the present city limits of Bridgeport took place in 1644, centered at Black Rock Harbor along North Avenue and between Park and Briarwood Avenues. The place was called Pequonnock, after a band of the Paugussett, one of their sacred sites was Golden Hill, which overlooked the harbor and was the location of natural springs and their planting fields. The Golden Hill Indians were granted a reservation here by the Colony of Connecticut in 1639 that survived until 1802, a village called Newfield began to coalesce around the corner of State and Water Streets in the 1760s. The area officially known as Stratfield in 1695 or 1701 due to its location between the already existing towns of Stratford and Fairfield. During the American Revolution, Newfield Harbor was a center of privateering, Newfield initially expanded around the coasting trade with Boston, New York, and Baltimore and the international trade with the West Indies. The commercial activity of the village was clustered around the wharves on the west bank of the Pequonnock, in 1800, the village became the Borough of Bridgeport, the first so incorporated in the state. It was named for the Newfield or Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, Bridgeport Bank was established in 1806. In 1821, the township of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford, the West India trade died down around 1840, but by that time the Bridgeport Steamship Company and Bridgeport Whaling Company had been incorporated and the Housatonic Railroad chartered. The HRRC ran upstate along the Housatonic Valley, connecting with Massachusettss Berkshire Railroad at the state line, Bridgeport was chartered as Connecticuts fifth city in 1836 in order to enable the town council to secure funding to provide to the HRRC and ensure that it would terminate in Bridgeport. The Naugatuck Railroad—connecting Bridgeport to Waterbury and Winsted along the Naugatuck—was chartered in 1845, the same year, the New York and New Haven Railroad began operation, connecting Bridgeport to New York and the other towns along the north shore of the Long Island Sound
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Bridgeport, the
Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry, the United Congregational Church, St. Patrick's Church, and the P.T. Barnum Museum
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Iranistan, the residence of
P.T. Barnum, in 1848
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Sterling Block-Bishop Arcade, a Victorian-era
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1912 postcard showing Main Street in Bridgeport
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The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U. S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureaus primary mission is conducting the U. S. Census every ten years, in addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U. S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey, furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the Census Bureau. The Bureaus various censuses and surveys help allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and help states, local communities, the Census Bureau is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States. The Census Bureau now conducts a population count every 10 years in years ending with a 0. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections, the Census Bureau is mandated with fulfilling these obligations, the collecting of statistics about the nation, its people, and economy. The Census Bureaus legal authority is codified in Title 13 of the United States Code, the Census Bureau also conducts surveys on behalf of various federal government and local government agencies on topics such as employment, crime, health, consumer expenditures, and housing. Within the bureau, these are known as surveys and are conducted perpetually between and during decennial population counts. The Census Bureau also conducts surveys of manufacturing, retail, service. Between 1790 and 1840, the census was taken by marshals of the judicial districts, the Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office. Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals, in 1902, the temporary Census Office was moved under the Department of Interior, and in 1903 it was renamed the Census Bureau under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The department was intended to consolidate overlapping statistical agencies, but Census Bureau officials were hindered by their role in the department. An act in 1920 changed the date and authorized manufacturing censuses every 2 years, in 1929, a bill was passed mandating the House of Representatives be reapportioned based on the results of the 1930 Census. In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code, by law, the Census Bureau must count everyone and submit state population totals to the U. S. President by December 31 of any year ending in a zero. States within the Union receive the results in the spring of the following year, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau regions are widely used. for data collection, the Census Bureau definition is pervasive. Title 13 of the U. S. Code establishes penalties for the disclosure of this information, all Census employees must sign an affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment. The Bureau cannot share responses, addresses or personal information with anyone including United States or foreign government, only after 72 years does the information collected become available to other agencies or the general public
U.S. Census Bureau
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Census headquarters in
Suitland, Maryland
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A card puncher, part of the tabulation system used to compile the thousands of facts gathered by the Bureau. Holes are punched in the card according to a prearranged code transferring the facts from the census questionnaire into statistics.
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New England City and Town Area
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A New England city and town area is a geographic and statistical entity defined by the U. S. federal government for use in the six-state New England region of the United States. NECTAs are classified as metropolitan or micropolitan NECTAs. A micropolitan NECTA has a core with a population of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000. In New England, towns are a more important level of government than counties. Because towns are smaller than counties, a NECTA usually provides a closer approximation to the real metropolitan area than a metropolitan statistical area does. Large NECTAs may be subdivided into smaller groupings known as NECTA Divisions, adjacent NECTAs that have a high degree of employment interchange may also be combined to form Combined NECTAS. NECTAs that are part of a CNECTA retain their separate identities, the following is a list of metropolitan and micropolitan NECTAs as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. Definitions are as of February 2013
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Gold Coast (Connecticut)
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The area is about 50 miles northeast of New York City, and is home to many wealthy NYC based business people. This area is often portrayed in culture as a bastion of wealth, despite not being on the coast, New Canaan and other landlocked towns are still generally included, with the Gold Coast boasting the historic and scenic Merritt Parkway as its centerpiece. With more land area, average values in New Canaan may be higher than Darien. With a higher population, a larger demographic weighs greater on the income in a town like Greenwich. This plus the 47 square miles in land area makes Greenwich essentially incomparable, New Canaan is also given an advantage, being well over 50% larger than Darien but still having a similar population. According to the 2000 US Census, New Canaan was first in per capita income, Darien second, however, per capita income does not take into account personal assets, homes, jewelry, art, boats or automobiles. Greenwich has the lowest mill rate, which may indicate higher property value, in 2000, New Canaan had a higher percentage of resident homeowners than Greenwich, which may indicate more wealth. According to some sources, the wealthiest town along the Gold Coast should be New Canaan because of their rate of home ownership suggesting a higher level of personal assets. More recently, another source named Darien the states richest town in 2011, an additional consideration is to measure wealth per person - not aggregate town wealth. Both the Adjusted Equalized Net Grand List per Capita Wealth Value, the AENGLC is based on the value of residential and commercial real estate, and measures the towns tax base available to pay for public education. It is not a measure of the wealth of individual residents. Yet another definition for the Gold coast is the one provided by the University of Connecticuts Five Connecticuts study and these are Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Weston, Wilton, Ridgefield, and Easton. A last method is to check the planning regions and this yields very similar results to the above method but adds Stamford and Norwalk while subtracting Ridgefield. A2015 Connecticut Post article named Darien the snobbiest town in Connecticut
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Gold Coast of
Fairfield County
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Newtown, Connecticut
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Newtown is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as the New York metropolitan area, Newtown was founded in 1705 and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2010 census, its population was 27,560, in 1705, English colonists purchased the Town site from the Pohtatuck Indians, a branch of the Pasgussett. It was originally known as Quanneapague, settled by migrants from Stratford and incorporated in 1711, Newtown residents had many business and trading ties with the English. It was a stronghold of Tory sentiment during the early Revolutionary War, late in the war, French General Rochambeau and his troops encamped here in 1781 during their celebrated march on their way to the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, which ended the Revolution. An important crossroads throughout its history, the village of Hawleyville briefly emerged as a railroad center. The towns population grew to over 4,000 circa 1881, in the following decades, the population dwindled to a low of 2,635 in 1930 before again growing. Local industry has included the manufacture of furniture, tea bags, combs, fire hoses, folding boxes, buttons, and hats, as well as farming, the game of Scrabble was developed here by James Brunot. From the period of development and suburbanization following World War II, the town has developed as a suburb of Danbury, with many people also commuting to Norwalk, Stamford. In November 1986, Helle Crafts was killed by her husband Richard Crafts in the infamous Woodchipper Murder, on December 14,2012, Adam Lanza shot his mother at home and then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he killed 26 people before killing himself. The northeastern border of the town is a border that follows the Housatonic River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 59.1 square miles, of which 57.8 square miles is land and 1.3 square miles. Newtown is located in northern Fairfield County, about 45 miles southwest of Hartford, the states fifth largest town in area, it is bordered by Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Easton, Monroe, Oxford, Redding and Southbury. As of the census of 2000, there were 25,031 people,8,325 households, the population density was 433.4 people per square mile. There were 8,601 housing units at a density of 148.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 95. 14% White,1. 75% Black or African American,0. 14% Native American,1. 40% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,0. 64% from other races, and 0. 89% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 36% of the population,14. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.90 and the family size was 3.24
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Edmond Town Hall
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Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 2007
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Redding, Connecticut
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Redding is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,158 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, Redding has an area of 32.1 square miles, of which 31.5 square miles is land and 0.6 square miles. Redding borders Bethel, Danbury, Easton, Newtown, Ridgefield, Redding has four primary sections, Redding Center, Redding Ridge, West Redding, and Georgetown, which is situated at the junction of Redding, Ridgefield, Weston and Wilton. Reddings topography is dominated by three ridges, running north to south, with intervening valleys featuring steep slopes and rocky ledges in some sections. Four streams flow south through Redding toward Long Island Sound, the Aspetuck River, the Little River, the Norwalk River, the Saugatuck River flows through the Saugatuck Reservoir, Reddings largest body of water which stretches south into Weston. The reservoir was created in 1938 through the flooding of a portion of the Saugatuck River Valley, as of the census of 2010, there were 9,158 people,3,470 households, and 2,593 families residing in the town. Redding has the third lowest population density in Fairfield County at 285.3 people per square mile, between 2000 and 2010, Reddings population increased 10. 7%. There were 3,811 housing units as of 2010, up 23. 5% from a decade earlier, for an average density of 118.7 units per square mile. The racial makeup of the town as of 2010 was 94. 90% White,0. 70% African American,0. 10% Native American,2. 20% Asian,2. 10% from other races or from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 60% of the population, individuals comprised 21. 3% of all households and 12. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the family size was 3.07. In the town, the population was out with 26. 0% under the age of 18,3. 2% from 18 to 24,16. 3% from 25 to 44,36. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 46.4 years, for every 100 females there were 92.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males, the median income for a household in 2000 was $104,137, and the median income for a family was $109,250. In 2009, the family income rose to $141,609. Males had an income of $77,882 versus $52,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $50,687, about 1. 2% of families and 1. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 1% of those under age 18 and 3. 5% of those age 65 or over
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Historic USGS topographical map of western half of Redding, Connecticut.
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Gilbert & Bennett in Georgetown, Connecticut.
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Redding Center in Redding, Connecticut
