Description
| Ring’s End, Connecticut, was a typical example of a New England trading town. Most of these communities were set up the same way: a pond, a dam for waterpower, the mill, a coal yard, three or four stores, each with a dock, and a cluster of houses for the local entrepreneurs. Originally a part of Stamford, Darien became Middlesex Parish in 1737 and was incorporated as Darien in 1820. |