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The Mechanic Street Historic District encompasses a historic 19th-century mill and mill village in a 14-block area of the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, Connecticut. Extending along the Pawcatuck River and south of West Broad Street ( United States Route 1 ), the area includes a large brick mill complex on the banks of the river, and a ...
The house was threatened with demolition in the early 1990s, and was purchased by the Stonington Historical Society in 1995. [3] Nathaniel Palmer was born into a seafaring family, and made his first voyage at the age of 14. Stonington was a center of the seal-hunting trade, which Palmer was drawn to in 1819.
Stonington is a borough and the town center of Stonington, Connecticut, United States, referred to by locals as "The Borough". The population was 976 at the 2020 United States Census, up from 929 in 2010. [1] The densely built Borough of Stonington occupies a point of land that projects into Little Narragansett Bay. It has two main streets that ...
Stonington is a town located in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic. Stonington is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The ...
Aug. 1—Repairs to the commercial fishing pier in Stonington and building a new child care center in Groton for Thames Valley Council for Community Action, are both set to receive federal funding ...
Quiambaug is an area of Stonington, Connecticut, consisting primarily of the valley of the Mistuxet Brook and Quiambaug Cove, and comprising roughly one-sixth of the town. One of the first four settlers of Stonington, Thomas Miner, built his house in Quiambaug in 1653. His diary of life there in the 17th century.
The Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District is located in the village of Mystic in Stonington, Connecticut. Its main focus is the former Rossie Velvet Mill, a large brick industrial facility on the east side of Greenmanville Avenue that is now a research center for the nearby Mystic Seaport Museum. The district extends along Greenmanville Avenue ...
Skipper's is moving from New Richmond to a new location about 50 miles downriver in Maysville, Kentucky, its owners announced Jan. 3. It is listed as temporarily closed online. It is listed as ...