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Cos Cob is a neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. [2] It is located on the Connecticut shoreline in southern Fairfield County. It had a population of 6,873 at the 2020 census. [1] Cos Cob is located on the western side of the mouth of the Mianus River.
For longer stays, they boarded at the Holley House (now known as the Bush-Holley House), a rambling old saltbox overlooking Cos Cob's small harbor. Old Holley House, Cos Cob by John Henry Twachtman (1890-1900) During the winter, Twachtman and Weir taught at the Art Students League of New York. Probably beginning in 1890, Twachtman established ...
Cotati – Italian community in the area's grape-growing industry. [3] Excelsior District, San Francisco – Italian-American Social Club is on Russia St., and Calabria Brothers Deli is around the corner on Mission Street. [4] Fresno and some Italian descendants in portions of the San Joaquin Valley (i.e. Kern County with its grape industry). [5]
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica.
The Bush–Holley House is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 39 Strickland Road in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut.It was constructed circa 1730 and in the late nineteenth century was a boarding house and the center of the Cos Cob Art Colony, Connecticut's first art colony.
Leonard Ochtman (1854–1935), his wife Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), artists and part of the Cos Cob Art Colony [65] Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), sculptor, designed the lions in front of the New York Public Library [66] John von Bergen (born 1971), sculptor; Mort Walker (1923–2018), cartoonist; creator of Beetle Bailey [67]
The Cos Cob art colony flourished from the late 1800s to the 1920s. [32] [33] At the height of its influence in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had a distinct presence in the county and county politics. The group was most active in Darien, but had small chapters in Norwalk, Stamford, and Bridgeport. [34] The Klan has since disappeared from the county.
Mianus / m aɪ ˈ æ n ə s /, [citation needed] formerly Mayamus and Upper Landing, [1] is a neighborhood in the town of Greenwich in the U.S. state of Connecticut.Unlike other Greenwich neighborhoods such as Cos Cob or Old Greenwich, Mianus does not have its own ZIP code or post office.