Greenwich, Connecticut. Greenwich is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 63,518. The largest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast, Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and other financial service firms.
Greenwich is a principal community of the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut as well as in the six-state region of New England.
The town is named after Greenwich, a royal borough of London in the United Kingdom. The town of Greenwich was settled in 1640.
One of the founders was Elizabeth Fones Winthrop, daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, founder and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What is now called Greenwich Point was known for much of the area's early history as Elizabeth's Neck in recognition of Elizabeth Fones and their 1640 purchase of the Point and much of the area now known as Old Greenwich. Greenwich was declared a township by the Connecticut General Assembly in Hartford on May 11, 1665. During the American Revolution, General Israel Putnam made a daring escape from the British on February 26, 1779 in Greenwich. Although British forces captured and sacked the town, Putnam was able to warn Stamford. In 1974, Gulliver's Restaurant and Bar, on the border of
As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 63,518. The largest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast, Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and other financial service firms.
Greenwich is a principal community of the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk-Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County. Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut as well as in the six-state region of New England.
The town is named after Greenwich, a royal borough of London in the United Kingdom. The town of Greenwich was settled in 1640.
One of the founders was Elizabeth Fones Winthrop, daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, founder and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What is now called Greenwich Point was known for much of the area's early history as Elizabeth's Neck in recognition of Elizabeth Fones and their 1640 purchase of the Point and much of the area now known as Old Greenwich. Greenwich was declared a township by the Connecticut General Assembly in Hartford on May 11, 1665. During the American Revolution, General Israel Putnam made a daring escape from the British on February 26, 1779 in Greenwich. Although British forces captured and sacked the town, Putnam was able to warn Stamford. In 1974, Gulliver's Restaurant and Bar, on the border of
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