Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Norwalk (Connecticut)

NORWALK, a town in Fairfield co., Conn.; on the Norwalk river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 60 miles S. W. of Hartford. Here are Norfolk and South Norwalk Public Libraries, high schools, Carnegie Library, Norwalk Hospital, State Armory, electric lights, electric street railroads, waterworks, National and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The town has manufactures of paper boxes, stoves, earthenware, machinery, builders' hardware, air compressors, locks, cigars, elastic webbing, woolen goods, corsets, shirts, shoes, straw and fur hats, etc. It also has a large coast trade, and an extensive oyster industry. Pop. (1910) 24,211; (1920) 27,743.