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Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats Stonington and Narragansett
…Her sister ship, the S.S. Stonington, left the steamboat dock in Stonington shortly after 9:30 p.m., bound for New York. The boats were unknowingly on a collision course. The subsequent…
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North Stonington: Shunock River and Local Ambitions Powered a 19th-century Mill Town
European settlement in the area of North Stonington dates back to the mid-1600s. An agricultural village for much of its existence, North Stonington enjoyed a period of prosperity as a…
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The Incident of the Stonington Schooner ‘Breakwater’: A View from Indian Country
…Carew of Stonington, first mate Oliver York, of Stonington Second mate, Mr Coffin, of Stonington third mate, Robert Sutton, of Stoneington. Steward, Matthew Flores A Portuguese of the Western Isalnds,…
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North Stonington Fairs Preserve Connecticut’s Agricultural Heritage
…while also improving livestock and assisting buyers and sellers in the exchange of materials, products, and ideas. Today, North Stonington still hosts its agricultural fair. Sponsored by the North Stonington…
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The Stonington Battle Flag
…approximately 12 feet by 18 feet, and would fly on a flag pole above annual training sessions and reviews. Stonington flag, photograph by F. Stewart Greene – The Stonington Historical…
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Borough of Stonington
By Edward T. Howe The borough of Stonington is the oldest continuous borough in Connecticut. It is located in the Town of Stonington in the extreme southeastern part of the…
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Stepping Back in Time: North Stonington Village Historic District
…land, North Stonington was already bustling with mill activity. The mills in North Stonington helped give the modern historic village its character. Gristmills, sawmills, and cotton mills, among others, provided…
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Stonington
…the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic, the borough of Stonington, and the villages of Lords Point, Wequetequok, and Pawcatuck. Settled in 1649 and named Stonington in 1666, the town…
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North Stonington
…in what was then Stonington. Named in 1724, North Stonington separated from Stonington and incorporated in 1807. In the 19th century, the town prospered with numerous farms, mills, and tanneries…
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North Stonington’s Randall House, Nothing Ordinary about It
…Stonington in 1986. They converted the house, which dated to the 1680s, into a restaurant and inn that offered guests colonial-style food and accommodations, all prepared using traditional 17th-century methods….
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James Merrill: Connecticut’s First Poet Laureate
…heart attack related to AIDS. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington. Several volumes of his work were published posthumously and the James Merrill House in Stonington is now…
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The Sea in their Blood: The Portuguese in New London County
…Portuguese sailors chose to stay. The Portuguese Find Work in New London County St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Stonington – Connecticut Historical Society By the 1850s, New London, Stonington, and…
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Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18
…of the sloop Hero, part of a fleet of Stonington sealers. Stonington’s brisk trade in fur sealskins and seal oil made it a leading sealing port of the time. In…
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Causes of the Pequot War
…includes the towns of Groton, Ledyard, Stonington, and North Stonington, as well as southern portions of Preston and Griswold. The Thames and Pawcatuck Rivers formed the western and eastern boundaries,…
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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape
By Tobias Glaza, with Paul Grant-Costa for Connecticut Explored Descending from the highest point on the Eastern Pequot’s Lantern Hill reservation in North Stonington, past the powwow and burial grounds,…
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Rails and Paper Trails
…Stonington Rail Road Company Act of Incorporation, 1832 – New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records, Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Libraries This transformative enterprise first came…
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Map – Connecticut Landmarks of the Constitution
…the following especially early ones: 28. New London: New London Harbor Light 29. Stratford Shoal: Stratford Shoal Light Several early Lighthouses are now museums, including: 30. Stonington: Stonington Harbor Lighthouse…
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Young Artist in Pomfret
…region. For a few years between 1837 and 1839, Whistler’s family lived in Stonington, Connecticut as his father, George Whistler, worked as an engineer for the Providence and Stonington Railroad….
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Venture Smith, from Slavery to Freedom
…thereafter, Mumford sold Venture to a farmer named Thomas Stanton II in Stonington, Connecticut. Venture convinced his new master to purchase his wife Meg, but Venture’s relationships with the Stantons…
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Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut
…Joshua Hempstead of New London wrote of using the ferry between New London and Groton frequently. Hempstead owned property in both New London and Stonington and often transported goods and…
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The British Raid on Essex
…a large squadron of the enemy.” Four months later the British bombarded Stonington. Unlike the strategic raid on Pettipaug, the attack on Stonington was a punitive bombardment of an extremely…
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Defending Connecticut: Fortifying New London Against the British in 1812
…of its fortifications. In April 1814, British troops rowed up the Connecticut River and burned about 20 vessels in Essex. In August 1814, they attacked Stonington. After the first night…
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Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story
…the Rhode Island coast. Using protected Stonington Harbor as its rail/water connection, the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad linked the two cities beginning in 1837. Taftville Tunnel. Photograph by…
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The Gettysburg Address and Heroic Fathers Bronze Tablets at the State Capitol
…by the organization. On August 26, 1923, the WRC erected a monument in Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut, dedicated to, “THE BRAVE SONS OF STONINGTON – WHO FOUGHT IN THE…
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Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights
…As James Tertius de Kay recounts in The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines and Rockets in the War of 1812, “On 12 December an overcast sky and lack of moon…
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The Hurricane of 1938 Rocks Connecticut
…to land the next morning in New London, no docks remained. The Shoreline Express, filled with passengers from New York bound for Boston, was marooned outside Stonington on tracks that…
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Vivien Kellems Takes On the IRS
…Connecticut shoreline to Stonington—after the town of Westport notified her of her business’s location in an area zoned strictly for residential purposes. Fourteen years later, Kellems closed her company, proclaiming…
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“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840
…it. The 207-foot-long boat, en route from New York to Stonington, was laden with passengers and freight–including 150 bales of cotton on the upper deck. The fire broke out near…
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Hurricane Gloria: “Storm of the Century”
…Hurricane Gloria, September 15 through September 28, 1985 – National Weather Service, NOAA Although inland areas suffered immensely, Connecticut’s coastline communities found themselves the hardest hit. From Milford to Stonington,…
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An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1776-1818
…the Federalist-dominated General Assembly refused to put Connecticut troops under the authority of the US Army. The British attacked the state, nonetheless, and caused great destruction in Stonington and Essex….
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Oystering in Connecticut, from Colonial Times to the 21st Century
…the taking of oysters in Connecticut waters appeared, and some of the earliest town records (in Stonington and Groton, for instance) relate to the separation and designation of individually parceled…
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Aristocratic Dental Cream Gets Squeezed
Dr. Washington Wentworth Sheffield was born in North Stonington, Connecticut. After graduating from dental college, he worked in the practice of Dr. J.A.G. Comstock of New London, practiced briefly in…
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Charles W. Morgan: New England’s Last Surviving Wooden Whaling Ship
By Matt Belden The Mystic Seaport Museum houses the Charles W. Morgan, a historic whaling ship and a vital link to Connecticut’s maritime heritage. As the last surviving wooden whaling…
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Mystic-built USS Galena Part of Plan to Strengthen Union Navy
…Maxson Company shipyard. According to the Mystic Pioneer and an account from William Maxson, between 1,000 and 2,000 people from Mystic, Norwich, New London, and Stonington were present for the…
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The War Connecticut Hated
…coast and crush the region’s commerce. Their attack on Stonington in August, ably defended by a shoreline battery backed up by three regiments of state militia, was a key moment…
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Connecticut Arms the Union
…Firearms Company in Stonington were single-shot breechloaders using .56-caliber rim-fire metallic cartridges. West Point trials documented the firing of 40 shots in five minutes. Connecticut manufacturers of breechloaders and repeaters…
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New London’s Indian Mariners
…Hill (present-day North Stonington), the Mohegan in present-day Montville, Niantic in present-day East Lyme, Wangunk in Middletown, Tunxis in Farmington, Paugussett in Derby, and Schaghticoke in Kent. The loss of…
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Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front
…the bank. A “sound truck” in Stonington broadcast the news of house-to-house canvasses. Volunteers often wore military-style uniforms and operated under a regimented structure. When the war ended, most civil…
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Revolution and the New Nation 1754-1820s
…Stonington. Connecticut even hosted delegates from its New England neighbors at the Hartford Convention in December 1814 to draft formal opposition to the War of 1812. Connecticut representatives played crucial…
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…Assembly actively sought to promote economic growth by granting charters of incorporation to the new turnpikes, banks and factories essential to the economy. Shelling of Stonington In the early 1800s,…
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Preston
…settlers to establish a plantation on the tract of land between Norwich and Stonington, and in 1687 incorporated it as Preston, after the English city of Preston, Lancashire. Early trades…
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War of 1812
…and Stonington garnered increased support for the war. Arms, munitions, and textile manufacturers in the state benefited, as did privateers, by meeting wartime needs. Connecticut also supplied a national hero:…
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The Rogerenes Leave Their Mark on Connecticut Society
…1695 the New London Congregationalist meetinghouse was burned, and the Stonington meetinghouse was damaged by “daubing it with filth.” Bathsheba (Rogers) Fox, John Rogers Jr., and William Wright, an Indian…
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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose
…Liguria with $20.30 in his possession and took up residence with his uncle in Rhode Island. Within four years, Nicholas had left his uncle’s house to live in Stonington, Connecticut,…
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Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?
…in Stonington, just 15 miles from Hinman’s home in New London. Emily Clark is a freelance writer and an English and Journalism teacher at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge….
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BF Clyde and the Steam-powered Cider Mill – Who Knew?
…that the oldest steam-powered cider mill in the US still operates in Mystic. Apple cider, traditionally a mildly alcoholic drink, and its production date back to the earliest days of…
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