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NORWALK’S SHORE non DRAWS
MANY NEW MWS HERE

Attractive Settings Overlooking the Sound on
Every Side for “Home Ideal”—Exodus
From Dirt and Noise of City Brings Hun-
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Today, as never before. the
southwestern Connecticut shore is
becoming known as the garden resi-
dential spot of the metropolitan
area. Beautiful as it is. iii no place
.is the coast line more attractive to
the lmmc-mvner than the parts sur-
rounding Norttnlk and Darien.

On it peninsulas. jutting out in
the sen, nestled in among the coy“.
on the little islands that stud the
Sound and cluster beside the con-
crete shore roads. one finds the at-
tructivo settings for that “home

ideal" that. every American man and
woman dreams of.
t‘otnhined with natural beauty.

with shore recreational facilities.
with riding. boating. swimming and
llelllllg. is the most important fact
that at no part of the shore line is
one more than five minutes' drive
away irom a railroad station—the
railroad that brings one to New

 

 

York in a little less than an hour.
Where Life Is Worth Living.

it is this fact. that is annually
bringing New York residents by the
hundreds and thousands out to the
shore line developments about Nor-
walk. where they find life really
worth living in thoroughly American
communities. Some come as sum-
mer residents-and stay as all-year-
round home-owners. Each morninfl
train takesdown its hundreds of
commuters whose business necessi-
tates their being in New York. Each
evening brings back those same hun-
dreds. who find home life really
worth while away from the bustle of
the city.

While hundreds of great estates,
with rolling lawns and shaded drives.
are within the confines of the City
of Norwalk and the Town of Darien.
it is the new communities of the men
of average means that reflect the

population is awsy from New York
and toward the suburban areas is
appare'nt to all. The cry of the mod-
ern American is "l'lack to the. Penn-
try." where life is worth living. The
Norwalk shoreline has all the charm
of rural lite—yet it is next door to
New York.

The development of Greater Nor-
walk's residential sections is easy of
comprehension. The town and vii-
lages date back in history to Revo-
lutionary times. Norwalk gained its
name because in its purchase from
the Indians tho only measurement.
of the site of land was that it was
"as far as a man could walk to the
north in a day”; in other words—I
“north walk." Incidentally. it has

been said that the walk was made

on the longest day of the summer.
or the one who made the walk did
a little running once in a while.
What the Railroad Did.
These villages. then. developed
into towns. and through thesetowns
the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad was built. in
realiity. the story of real estate de-
velopment could be written around
the development of locomotive ma-
chinery. With this railroad as a
feeder. community life. centered
round the railroad depots. The near-
er the rnllroad the better the land.
This held true until the develop-
ment of the modern automobile and
the building of modern concrete
roads. The main artery of the Con-
necticut shore—~tho Boston Post
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present trend. That this trend in

along the highway. They came to

know the countryside along the turn-
pike and began to purchase land
there and to build there. The auto-
mobile revised real estate schedules.
A spot “11! no longer “four miles
from the railroad station." it be-
came “only ten minutes' drive."

ltlentinl development and. on either
side or the Post road. new residen-

msny modern homes in this restrict-
ed development.

it is at Darien center that the
Post road sheet-s inland and the con-
crete Shore road begins its winding
journey along the coast. lictween
this road and the shore is the next
This brought another stage of res- development.
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yond is Fuller‘s Isl
of the old time "is
up by man, so that it connects with
lioutul wtntls the road——
throuuh the old fishing village of
ltownyton. along the Five Mile River.
and to llowuyton beach.

This development looks off into
the Sound, and across

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mouth to Butler‘s island. The latter httilt up. The other. Covewo. ;
Is now build up. but l’towayion Beach
in still building and many choice lots
are to be had there. builder.

(in goes tlte road—concrete all the
Close by the beautiful estate
of James A. Farrell are the two do-
velopments of Bell Island and Cove-
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tinl communities grow.

The present development. while
similar to the last. is peculiar in that
it folio!" the coast line in every in-
stance. A map of Greater Nortvslk
shows the'rsllrosd and the Post
road interlacing eachother. Alenar
the shore. closely following the con-
tours of the bays and peninsulss.
however-y. is the pretty. .winding
Shore road. Roundthe curves of the
coast. edged by vistas of blue sea
water and the gold of sandy beach-
es. the charm of the Shore road can
not be denied. The modern trend
brought to this utmost shore section
the concrete auto highway. Once
again it was means of transit that
influenced residential settlement and
the trend of population. now takins
place. is from the cities and along
the shore and islands class by this
highway.

Nomton Manor Comes First. _

"Pliny”: at the westerly end. as
one comes from New York. the first
development is Noroton Manor. Here
the Post road runs close to the sea
and follows the old highway of
coaching days. Between the Post
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Round a bay curves the road 7
and the next peninsula. sees an
development—Wilson‘s Point.