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Great Captain Island, also known more familiarly as "Great Captain's Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut. The 17.2-acre (7.0 ha) island is the largest of a three-island group that also includes Little Captain and Wee Captain. The island is a remnant of a glacial moraine and has a large glacial erratic on the southern ...
Fl WR 6s. Great Captain Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Great Captain Island in the western Long Island Sound off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Built in 1829, the first lighthouse, made of stone, was of such poor construction that the walls were severely cracked a decade later. In 1868, a new granite dwelling with ...
The U.S. state of Connecticut has fourteen active lighthouses in the state, two of which are maintained as private aids; six are standing but inactive. Another was destroyed after its deactivation. The earliest lighthouse in the state was erected in 1760, but that tower, the first New London Harbor Light, was replaced in 1801, and its successor ...
Greenwich (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ɪ tʃ / GREH-nitch) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.At the 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. [2] Greenwich is a principal community of the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County, and is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.
Current listings. / 41.0338°N 73.5977°W / 41.0338; -73.5977 ( Bush-Holley House) Home of Cos Cob Art Colony, c.1890-1920. Current headquarters and museum of the Greenwich Historical Society. / 41.012778°N 73.653611°W / 41.012778; -73.653611 ( Byram School) "Exceptional" for its architecture.
Feake-Ferris House, circa 1645-1689, likely the first and oldest house in Greenwich Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut (about 1890–1900) by artist John Henry Twachtman. On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, jointly purchased the land between the Asamuck and Tatomuck brooks, in the area now called as Old Greenwich, from Wiechquaesqueek Munsees living there for "twentie-five coates."
Old Greenwich is a coastal village in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. [2] [3] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 6,611.[4]The town of Greenwich is one political and taxing body, but consists of several distinct sections or neighborhoods, such as Byram, Cos Cob, Glenville, Mianus, Old Greenwich, Riverside, and Greenwich (sometimes referred to as central, or downtown ...
Putnam Hill Historic District. The Putnam Hill Historic District encompasses a former town center of Greenwich, Connecticut. Located on United States Route 1 between Milbank Avenue and Old Church Road, the district includes the churches of two historic congregations, a former tavern, and a collection of fine mid-Victorian residential architecture.