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Nineteen of the towns in Connecticut are consolidated city-towns, and one is a consolidated borough-town. City incorporation requires a Special Act by the Connecticut General Assembly . All cities in Connecticut are dependent municipalities, meaning they are located within and subordinate to a town.
In practice, as is the case in most of New England, their authority has been very broadly construed, and there is a long-standing tradition of local autonomy. Towns traditionally had the town meeting form of government, which is still used by some of the 169 towns.
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Darien (/ ˌ d ɛər i ˈ æ n / DAIR-ee-AN) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under 13 square miles (34 km 2), it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast.
In 1683, New York and Connecticut reached a final agreement regarding their common border. This resulted in the cession of the town of Rye and all claims to the Oblong to New York. From the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several new towns were incorporated in western Connecticut and added to Fairfield County, namely Danbury (1687 ...
Probably more accurately, however, town history attributes the name to John Read, [8] an early major landholder who was a prominent lawyer in Boston as well as a former Congregationalist preacher who converted to Anglicanism. Read helped in demarcating the boundaries of the town and in getting it recognized as a parish of Fairfield [9] in 1729 ...
Norfolk (NOR-f Ōk) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census. [1] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region. The urban center of the town is the Norfolk census-designated place, with a population of 553 at the 2010 census. [2]
The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. Officially recognized as a parish in 1726, Wilton today is a residential community with open lands, historic architecture such as the Round House, and many colonial homes. [4] [5] Many residents commute to nearby cities such as Stamford or New York City.