Stamford

Stamford, a town of Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, 33 miles by rail NE. of New York. It has a handsome town-hall, and the hills around are embellished with the summer residences of well-to-do New Yorkers. Steamboats run daily to New York. There are iron and bronze foundries, and manufactories of hats, drugs, sashes and blinds, and Yale locks (see LOCK, p. 680). Stamford was settled in 1641. Pop. (1880) 11,297; (1890) 15,700.