GREENWICH, a town of Fairfield county, Conn., U.S.A., on Long Island sound, in the extreme south-west of the State, 28 m. N.E. of New York city. It contains a borough of the same name and nine villages, including Cos Cob, Riverside and Sound Beach, and is served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, by motorbus lines, as well as in summer by a ferry to Oyster Bay, Long Island. The population of the borough in 192o was 5,939; of the town 22,123, 192o; 33,112, 193o. The town occupies 48 sq.m. of gently rolling land, rising from the sea-level to an elevation of 55o ft., and presents a beautiful panorama of bays, coves, lakes, rivers, hills, woods and valleys. It is primarily a residential community and a summer resort, the home of many New York business men, artists and writers. There are beautiful estates, clubs, hotels and facilities for all kinds of sports; the northern part of the town is covered with a network of 33o m. of bridle paths. Greenwich was settled in 1614 as a part of New Amsterdam. The Dutch relinquished their claim in 165o; 6 years later the town submitted to the New Haven colony; in 1662 it was one of the first towns of the colony to submit to Connecticut. On the old post-road is the inn (built about 1729 and restored as a memorial in 1901) where Israel Putnam was surprised by Tryon in Feb. 1779, and, according to tradition, escaped by riding down a steep flight of stone steps. The borough of Greenwich was incorporated in 1858.