The Siwanoy, a Munsee-Lenape people, lived along this shore long before the colonists, with a summer fishing camp out on the point that is now Greenwich Point. In 1640 English settlers established the town on land purchased from the Siwanoy, in the area first called Horseneck. Greenwich grew slowly through the colonial era as a farming and coastal-trade town until the Revolution put it on the map: on February 26, 1779, during the Battle of Horse Neck, General Israel Putnam was cut off from his men by British cavalry and — by the celebrated account still carried on the Town of Greenwich seal — escaped by riding his horse straight down the steep, rocky face of Put's Hill, where no dragoon dared follow. The railroad arrived in 1848 and changed everything, turning Greenwich into a wealthy New York summer retreat. It was that summer-resort era, and the luminous coastal landscape, that drew the artists.
Today Greenwich is known for its shoreline, its museums, and an art heritage that few American towns can match. Its story blends Siwanoy beginnings, a 1640 founding, a Revolutionary legend, and the birth of an American art movement on its harbor. Our Greenwich designs gather that identity into wearable form — the Impressionist coast, the 1779 ride, the Long Island Sound shore. Explore the collection and carry a little of the Gold Coast light with you.
Why People Visit Greenwich Connecticut
Greenwich draws people who love art, history, and the coast in equal measure. It is the birthplace of an American art movement, a Revolutionary-era town with its founding legend on the seal, and a Gold Coast shoreline of harbors, marshes, and beaches on Long Island Sound. Visitors come for the rare combination — fine-art heritage you can walk through, colonial history you can stand on, and a refined coastal town that wears its wealth quietly, all an easy train ride from New York.
