Darien

Darien, town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound. Originally part of Stamford, the area was settled by colonists from Wethersfield about 1641, and a separate community life began in 1737 when the newly named Middlesex Parish was separated from Stamford. It was incorporated as a town in 1820 (including the village of Noroton) and renamed by Thaddeus Bell, who supposedly likened its location to the Darién region in Panama, an area...