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Facts about Darien

Darien is also known as: Darien.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Ryan Shannon (ice hockey player), Matthew Porretta (actor), Steve Stafford (film director and actor), Tom Gammill (screenwriter and television producer), and Robina Marchesi (screenwriter and film director).

And featured attractions of Darien: Stephen Tyng Mather Home, Boston Post Road Historic District, Pond-Weed House, Summer House, Darien, and Darien.

Darien is represented by First selectman Gerald A. Nielsen, Jr.and Selectmen Edward R. Tierney.

Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. A relatively small community on Connecticut's "Gold Coast", the population was 20,732 at the 2010 census. Darien is one of the wealthiest communities in the US; it was listed at #7 on CNN Money's list of "top-earning towns" in the United States as of 2011.Situated between the cities of Norwalk and Stamford, the town is a bedroom community with relatively few office buildings. Most workers commute to the adjacent cities, and many also work in Manhattan. Two Metro-North railroad stations - Noroton Heights and Darien - link the town to Grand Central Terminal and the rest of the New Haven Line. For recreation, the town includes four small parks, two public beaches on Long Island Sound, four country clubs, a hunt club, and two yacht clubs.The town name is pronounced with stress on the last syllable, and has been referred to as such at least as far back as 1913. Residents say this is still the proper pronunciation, which in the local dialect is more precisely [dE�EE¹iE�E�En]. "You can always tell when someone is not from here, because they do pronounce it the way it's spelled," Louise Berry, director of the town library, said in a 2006 interview.

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