Greenwich
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- Names
Greenwich
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Long Island Sound in SW Connecticut; land purchased by New Haven Colonists from Indians for 25 English coats; named for Greenwich, England; controlled by Dutch; returned to Connecticut in 1650; seized by British in Revolutionary War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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