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Stamford ( / ˈstæmfərd /) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 34 miles (55 kilometers) outside of New York City. It is the sixth- most populous city in New England. Stamford is also the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region, and Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport.
Stamford. / 41.046937°N 73.541493°W / 41.046937; -73.541493. Stamford station, officially known as the Stewart B. McKinney Transportation Center [5] or the Stamford Transportation Center, is a major railroad station in the city of Stamford, Connecticut, serving passengers traveling on Metro-North Railroad 's New Haven Line, and Amtrak ...
Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Siwanoy Native American inhabitants to the region, and the very first European settlers to the area also referred to it that way. On July 1, 1640, Nathaniel Turner of the New Haven Colony signed an agreement to purchase the land comprising present-day Stamford, Darien, western New Canaan, and Pound Ridge and Bedford in present-day New York with Siwanoy ...
Stamford Museum & Nature Center. / 41.126; -73.547. The Stamford Museum & Nature Center, located in Stamford, Connecticut, is an art, history, nature, and agricultural sciences museum. The property covers 118 acres (ca. 48 hectares) beginning about half a mile north of the Merritt Parkway. It was originally a private estate.
Old North Stamford Road at Rippowam River in northern Stamford: 2 41°06′54″N 73°32′42″W / 41.115°N 73.545°W / 41.115; -73.545 ( Turn-of-River A lenticular pony truss bridge built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1892, using a design patented by William O. Douglas in 1878 for a lens-type truss bridge .
CT Transit Stamford is the division of CT Transit for the Stamford, Connecticut metropolitan area. It provides service on 20 bus routes in Stamford and nearby towns and cities. [4] All routes originate from the Stamford Transportation Center , in Downtown Stamford , and connect to other neighborhoods in Stamford, as well as Greenwich , Darien ...
Connecticut Route 137. Route 137 is a main highway running north–south through the city of Stamford, Connecticut. It runs for about 9.3 miles (15.0 km) from Downtown Stamford up to North Stamford and then to New York state line in the town of Pound Ridge, New York .
The Fort Stamford Site, site of Fort Stamford, is a public park at 900 Westover Road in the Westover neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] It is the site of the archaeological remnants of a military earthworks erected during the American Revolutionary War.