| 词条 | North Stamford |
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|name=North Stamford |settlement_type=Neighborhood |image_skyline= |image_caption= |imagesize= |established_title= |subdivision_type=Country |subdivision_name={{flag|United States}} |subdivision_type1= State |subdivision_name1={{flag|Connecticut}} |subdivision_type2=County |subdivision_name2=Fairfield |subdivision_type3=City |subdivision_name3=Stamford |population=14,904 |timezone=Eastern |utc_offset=-5:00 |timezone_DST=Eastern |utc_offset_DST=-4:00 |area_code=203 }} North Stamford is a section of Stamford, Connecticut, USA, north of the Merritt Parkway. Mostly woody and hilly, it is the least densely populated, and highest income section of the city. The two main roadways in North Stamford are High Ridge Road (Connecticut Route 137) and Long Ridge Road (Connecticut Route 104). North Stamford borders Pound Ridge, New York at the New York line to the north, the "back country" section of Greenwich, Connecticut to the west, and the Town of New Canaan, Connecticut to the east. According to the 2010 census, North Stamford has a population of 14,904. The City of Stamford as a whole had a population of 122,643 (per the 2010 Census) with most recent estimates showing Stamford's population around 128,000. High Ridge Road, in the area just south of the Merrit Parkway, is the largest shopping district near North Stamford. A shopping plaza and some surrounding stores are also nearby on Newfield Avenue, and downtown Springdale also offers nearby stores. When Stamford's population began to grow during and after World War II, 30,000 new residents arrived from 1940 to 1960. "North Stamford developed with one- and two-acre zoning, looking just like Wilton or New Canaan," Janice Green, the manager of the William Pitt Real Estate office, told The New York Times in 1989. "Executives moved up there who had no connection with the factories and ethnic working-class neighborhoods downtown."[1] Landmarks and institutionsWater reservoirs which provide water service to the City of Stamford are located in North Stamford, as are the Bartlett Arboretum and the Stamford Historical Society headquarters and museum. Also in the neighborhood is the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, a {{convert|118|acre|km2|adj=on}} facility on Scofieldtown Road. The museum works with schools in Stamford, Bridgeport, Norwalk, Darien and Greenwich, and more than 10,000 students visit every year. In 2007 the museum and nature center started working with Aquarion, a water utility serving much of Fairfield County, in a program meant to educate children about water ecology and watershed protection.[2] Buttonwood Manor, a Colonial-style house on an estate of {{convert|8|acre|m2}}, is in North Stamford. The original main house was built by Jacob Stevens in 1809, then sold it in 1821 to Gould Raymond. For 77 years the Raymond family farmed the land. By 1926 Mary Stella Tisdale Atwood had bought the house from Otto Sarrach and began restoring it. She sold the estate to William E. Stevenson, a Gold Medal winner in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris (setting a new world record of 3:16.0 as member of the American 400-meter relay team) and later a president of Oberlin College. While Stevenson and his wife were in England running American Red Cross operations in World War II, they rented the house to Dorothy Fields, a lyricist.[3] Parks1. Chestnut Hill Park-Chestnut Hill Rd & Webbs Road 2. Dorothy Heroy Park-Riding Stable Trail 3.Scofieldtown Park-Scofield Town Road. 4.Woodley Road Bird Sanctuary-Off Scofield Town Road 5. Mianus River Park-Merribrook Lane 6.Newman Mills Park-Riverbank Road Emergency ServicesFire service in North Stamford is provided by a combination of volunteer and professional firefighters. Stamford Fire Rescue Department's Fire Station #'s 8 and 9 serve the neighborhood, as well as the Turn of River Volunteer Fire Department Station #'s 1 and 2 and the Long Ridge Volunteer Fire Department's Station #'s 1 and 2. North Stamford is patrolled by police officers from the City of Stamford Police Department (SPD). Emergency Medical Service coverage in North Stamford is provided by Stamford EMS units. Stamford EMS has paramedics respond to all of their calls for service. Secession Movement of 1990sThe New York Times reported in 1995 that in the 1990s many North Stamford residents were seriously considering a secession movement to form a town separate from the City of Stamford.[4] Many North Stamford residents calculated that creating their own town would significantly reduce property taxes. The Concerned Citizens of North Stamford argued that North Stamford residents pay nearly a third of Stamford's property taxes although they make up less than 15 percent of the city's population and in return receive less city services. North Stamford residents do not receive city garbage collection (as does most of the rest of the city), must provide their own water and sewerage systems, have less police protection and, largely, have their children bused to schools in other parts of town. The New York Times reported that in 1995, that Stamford's then Mayor Esposito strongly opposed the movement. Mayor Esposito cited a plan by the city to permit the conversion of the vacant Riverbank School into a 53-bed residential hospice along with offices for Hospice Care Inc as a strong reason against the movement. Although the Concerned Citizens of North Stamford received about 600 signatures in a petition for the secession movement, it ultimately failed because many North Stamford residents were opposed to the plan and were discouraged by the complex process of secession in the State of Connecticut. Secession would require a revision of the City charter and the approval of the State Legislature. It is unlikely the City of Stamford would allow the lucrative revenue stream of property taxes from North Stamford to cease and for State legislators to approve a major municipality separation without the City of Stamford's support. There is very little to no legitimate discussions on secession in our current day as North Stamford is seen as an established part of the City of Stamford legally and functionally. Secession movements also took place in 1990s in the Rowayton section of Norwalk, Connecticut and the East Shore section of New Haven, Connecticut with those residents citing similar concerns. All of these movements were unsuccessful and their neighborhoods remain within their larger cities jurisdiction. Historical CemeteriesNorth Stamford contains numerous old cemeteries from the nineteenth century and before, some quite small and often with gravestones bearing elaborate engravings and even poetry.[5] These old cemeteries are in North Stamford:[5]
William S. June, 1846, age 25: Dear young friends, as you pass by As you are now so once was I As I am now so you must be Prepare for death & follow me
Mary E. Dann, 1861, age 26: Dear husband and children and sisters, farewell I go to the land of the blest Where our parents and children dwell Where soon we all may find rest. Two bright little cherubs up there Call out for their mother to come Our mothers and children are there Awaiting to welcome me home. Then grieve not, dear loved ones, that I Must leave this sad world and its woe Tis to join with the loved ones on high {{col-break}}That I part with the loved ones below. Hannah Jones Lockwood, 1842, age 4: O Father dear, prepare to follow me In Heaven your wife & sweet babes to see Affliction sore this infant bare Physicians aid was in vain Till God did please to call her home And freed her from her pain. Oren S. Palmer, 1865, age 1: Two more little hands Close folded on the breast One more little form {{col-end}}Is gently laid to rest. Notable North Stamford residents, past and present
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