The New Student's Reference Work/Stamford, Conn.

Stam′ford, Conn., a town 33 miles northeast of New York, on Long Island Sound. It is a suburb of New York City and a summer-resort for the business men of the city, whose handsome homes are on all the surrounding hills. There are iron and bronze foundries, manufactories of hats, drugs, sashes, blinds and locks. The town was settled in 1641. Population 25,138.