Everything about The Connecticut Panhandle totally explained
The
Connecticut Panhandle, informally known to locals as
the Tail, is in southwestern
Connecticut, where it abuts
New York State. It is contained entirely in
Fairfield County and includes all of
Greenwich,
Stamford,
New Canaan, and
Darien, as well as part of
Norwalk and containing some of the most expensive residential real estate in the United States.
The irregularity in the boundary is the result of
territorial disputes in the late 1600s, culminating with New York giving up its claim to this area, whose residents considered themselves part of Connecticut, in exchange for an equivalent area extending northwards from
Ridgefield, Connecticut to the
Massachusetts border as well as undisputed claim to
Rye, New York.
The two British colonies (at that time not yet U.S. states) negotiated an agreement on November 28, 1683 establishing the
New York -
Connecticut border as east of the
Hudson River, north to
Massachusetts. The east of the Byram River making up the
Connecticut Panhandle were granted to Connecticut, in recognition of the wishes of the residents. In exchange,
Rye was granted to New York, along with a wide strip of land running north from Ridgefield to Massachusetts alongside
Dutchess,
Putnam, and
Westchester Counties, New York, known as the "Oblong".
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