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Stamford (City in Fairfield co Conn)

a city in Fairfield co., Conn.; on Long Island Sound, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 34 miles E. of New York. Here are the Ferguson Library, high school, hospital, town hall, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It is the residence place of many New York business men. The industries include woolen mills, lumber mills, and manufactories of carriages, chemicals, wire, pianos, paints, chocolate, hardware, stoves, straw hats, machinery, shoes, locks, dye-stuffs, pottery, etc. Pop. (1910) 25,138; (1920) 35,096.

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