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Cos Cob is on the Mianus River . The community name is of uncertain origin and meaning.According to the local historical society as quoted in the New York Times , September 22 2002 . The American Impressionist Cos Cob Art Colony flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s. An offshoot of the group, the Art Society of Greenwich continues to support local artists in town. COMMUNITY FACILITIES
HISTORY , ca. 1894]]The community is situated on Cos Cob Harbor, a sheltered area on the north side of Long Island Sound . Cos Cob's role as a commercial shipping Port , supplying potatoes and apples to New York City , disappeared with the appearance of the railroad and Dam ming of the Mianus River. The river is now one source of the town's drinking water. Cos Cob gets a train for Christmas The Cos Cob train station and the Mianus River Railroad Bridge are listed on the National Register Of Historic Places . :"On Christmas Day, 1848, the last rails were laid over the Cos Cob Bridge, thereby supplying the last link needed to complete the railroad from New Haven to New York," according to the Stamford Historical Society Web site. "The first trial run was made on that day."Web page titled "Murals: Scenes from Yesteryear" {Link without Title} on the web site of the Stamford Historical Society . Accessed 25 August 2006 . Editors of two Stamford newspapers reported on the event. William H. Holly, Esq., founder of the ''Stamford Sentinel'' and a guest on the first trial run, wrote: "The train had to remain at Cos Cob Bridge some three hours for the last rails to be laid over it and the delay gave ample opportunity to the people to come and witness the wonderful feat. The general impression among them seemed to be, that the first train that attempted to cross this pass would also be the last." Edgar Hoyt, editor of the ''Stamford Advocate'': "The citizens of the village as well as the horses, cattle, etc., were nearly frightened out of their propriety ... by such a horrible scream as was never heard to issue from any other than a metallic throat. Animals of every description went careening round the fields, snuffling the air in their terror." Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries ]]The coal-fired steam turbine Cos Cob Power Plant built by Westinghouse in 1907 was a Mission Style structure. It was designated a National Historic Engineering Landmark in 1982 by the ASME and the IEEE . Despite being listed on the National Register Of Historic Places and local and national debate, the plant was decommissioned in 1987 and demolished in 2001 . Ernest Thompson Seton lived in Cos Cob on an estate which is now a town park. Over 75 years ago what would eventually become the Boy Scouts Of America was in part founded by him here. On June 28 1983 , a 100 foot (30.5 m) elevated portion of Interstate 95 (the Mianus River Bridge ) collapsed, killing and injuring several motorists. Interstate 95 is the principal highway between Maine and Florida , and one of the most heavily traveled roads in the country. Because the road was not fully reopened for six months, it created a bottleneck which affected the New York to Boston transportation corridor. In , printed June 22 2006 in the ''Stamford Advocate'', page A6. RESIDENTS OF NOTE
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