The New Student's Reference Work/Norwalk, Ct.

Nor′walk, Ct., a town in Fairfield County, at the mouth of Norwalk River on Long Island Sound, 41 miles from New York.  The city has a state armory, Fairfield County Hospital and Norwalk Hospital.  Public and parish schools and a Carnegie Library are the principal educational institutions.  It has the largest straw hat factory in the United States and large manufactories of felt hats and goods, woolens, shirts, shoes, silks, corsets, locks, door knobs, besides foundries and iron works.  It has a good harbor and large oyster fisheries.  Population of Norwalk, 6,954; of South Norwalk, 8,968—total, including Norwalk town, 24,211.