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The Lower Post Road hugged the shoreline of Long Island Sound all the way to Rhode Island and then turned north through Providence to Boston. This is now the best-known of the routes. The Lower Post Road roughly corresponds to the original alignment of U.S. Route 1 in eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
Darien (/ ˌ d ɛər i ˈ æ n / DAIR-ee-AN) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under 13 square miles (34 km 2 ), it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast .
Darien was settled by colonists as part of Stamford, and was first known as Middlesex Parish. A church parish separate from that of Stamford was established in 1737, and the town was incorporated in 1820. In 1740 a meeting house was built on the site where the present First Congregational Church now stands at Brookside Road and the Post Road ...
Kailash Parbat is an Indian multi cuisine and casual restaurant chain, founded in 1940 by the Mulchandani Brothers, headquartered in Mumbai, India.Kailash Parbat operates its own retail chain stores and a variety of eateries throughout India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Kenya, Portugal, Canada, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.
Darien Downtown is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.It represents the built-up center of town around the intersections of U.S. Route 1 (Boston Post Road), Connecticut Route 124 (Mansfield Avenue), and Connecticut Route 136 (Tokeneke Road).
Boston Post Road Historic District may refer to one of several historic districts along the Boston Post Road: Boston Post Road Historic District (Darien, Connecticut), listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Boston Post Road Historic District (Weston, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
Downtown Darien, originally known as "Darien Depot", grew up around the train station, replacing the Noroton commercial district (2–3 miles to the east, along the Post Road) by the 1870s. By then, the train connection to New York City allowed wealthy New Yorkers to build vacation homes along the shore, beginning Darien's history as a wealthy ...
The Pond-Weed House is a historic house at corner of the old Boston Post Road and Hollow Tree Ridge Road in the Noroton section of Darien, Connecticut. It has also been known as The House Under the Hill and Half-Way House. [1] Built ca. 1730, [2] the house is a classic wood frame saltbox, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories in height, five bays wide, with a ...