New Canaan There & Then
New Canaan There and Then: Top-10 List — The Perambulation Line
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‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli and Dawn Sterner. In the spirit of former New Canaan resident David Letterman, we present the “Top Ten Things About The Perambulation Line”:
10. What was the Perambulation Line? The Perambulation Line was a formal, straight, generally north/south property line established by royal surveyors in 1685 that officially delineated the boundaries between Norwalk and Stamford prior to New Canaan’s incorporation in 1801. This followed decades of disputes between the two future cities, each of which sought to tax landowners on both sides of the Line. The surveyors started at the mouth of the Five Mile River, and following a south-to-north course established a border ending at the Connecticut colony line, which at that time was situated within present-day Westchester County.