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Greenwich (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ɪ tʃ / GREH-nitch) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. [2] It is the largest town on Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast. Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and ...
Roughly bounded by Railroad, Arch, Field Point, W. Elm, Greenwich, Putnam, Mason, Havemeyer, and Bruce, in downtown Greenwich 41°01′33″N 73°37′36″W / 41.025833°N 73.626667°W / 41.025833; -73.626667 ( Greenwich Avenue Historic
The community is situated on Cos Cob Harbor, a sheltered area on the north side of Long Island Sound. Cos Cob's role as a commercial shipping port, supplying potatoes and apples to New York City, disappeared with the appearance of the railroad and damming of the Mianus River. The river is now one source of the town's drinking water.
The property was purchased by Dr. James C. Greenway and his wife Harriet Lauder Greenway, the daughter of multi-billionaire (in today's currency) George Lauder and niece of Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest Americans ever, in 1905. At the time of purchase, the estate included 57 acres (23 ha) and included fruit-bearing orchards, a chicken ...
The Greenwich Metro-North station is in the center of the community, just north of I-95. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Greenwich CDP has an area of 4.4 square miles (11.5 km 2 ), of which 4.1 square miles (10.6 km 2 ) are land and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km 2 ), or 7.23%, are water.
The Byram River flows from north to south through the community. According to the United States Census Bureau , Pemberwick has a total area of 0.693 square miles (1.79 km 2 ), of which 0.679 square miles (1.76 km 2 ) is land and 0.014 square miles (0.036 km 2 ), or 2.02%, is water.
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.
Early records show that in February 1680, a Greenwich Town Meeting ordered Justus Bush, John Lockwood and Joseph Ferris to lay out a township upon the land lying nearby Horseneck Brook, to number twenty home lots of four acres each and a piece of land for a common. Captain Israel Knapp bought the Horseneck property in 1692.