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The property is in both Norwalk and Westport, Connecticut, with about 15.5 acres (63,000 m 2) in Norwalk and 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2) in Westport. [1] The location was sometimes referred to as Westport, which has more theater than Norwalk. Lortel later donated much of her memorabilia to the Westport Public Library.
The islands are used for several different types of recreational activities, including camping, boating, kayaking, swimming, bird watching. Ownership of the islands varies, with about a half dozen held in private hands, some owned by the governments of Norwalk or Westport and some are part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. [1]
Coyote (Canis latrans) — first spotted in Connecticut in the mid-1950s, with the first 10 years of reports only in the northwestern part of the state, although they have since spread across the entire state. [17] The state Department of Environmental Protection estimates there are 2,000 to 4,000 in the state as of 2007.
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Located in the Gold Coast along the Long Island Sound , it is 48 miles (77 km) northeast of New York City and is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Spotted Horse and Spotted Horses may refer to: Spotted Horse, Wyoming, an unincorporated community in Campbell County; Spotted Horses, a novella written by William ...
The Compo–Owenoke Historic District encompasses an early 20th-century summer resort beach community in Westport, Connecticut.Developed between 1910 and 1940, the Compo Beach area contains one of the largest assemblages of period resort architecture in Westport, and one of the best such collections in the region.
Acting for the state, Westport farmer and public citizen William H. Burr Jr., who led the fight to create the park, bought two small parcels in 1914, including a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) strip of beachfront, [4] [11] giving Sherwood Island its designation as Connecticut’s first state park, although it took another two decades for the park to be ...