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SOUTH NORWALK

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

SOUTH See also:
NORWALK
NORWALK , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

FAIRFIELD

Fairfield See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, U.S.A., at the mouth of the Norwalk See also:

RIVER

river, on See also:

Long See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island See also:

Sound, in the township of Norwalk, and 42 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.E. of New See also:

York. Pop. (1900) 6591, including 1528 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born (many Hungarians) and 83 negroes; (191o) 8968. It is served by the See also:

main See also:

LINE

line and the See also:

DANBURY

Danbury See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division (of which it is a See also:

TERMINUS

terminus) of the New York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford railway, by inter-See also:

urban electric lines, and by steamboats to New York. The business and manufacturing See also:

section is See also:

close to the river and only a few feet above it; behind this, along a See also:

ridge, is the residential See also:

DISTRICT

district; along the Sound are summer cottages and See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure resorts. \\Test See also:

AVENUE (the past participle feminine of Fr. avenir, to come to)

Avenue is a finely shaded drive. The city has a public library and a soldiers' See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument. South Norwalk is chiefly a manufacturing and commercial city. It has a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour (in which there are three lighthouses), considerable coastwise See also:

trade, and important See also:

OYSTER

oyster See also:

FISHERIES

fisheries. South Norwalk, long an unincorporated See also:

VILLAGE

village called Old Well, was chartered as a city under its See also:

PRESENT

present name in 187o, and its See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was revised and amended in 1882, 1897 and 1909.

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