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Stanton's first house in Stonington was demolished in the 19th century and today the site is marked by a large inscribed stone. A subsequent dwelling built beginning about 1670 is the oldest house still standing in Stonington and is now preserved as the Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum .
The American poet James Merrill and his partner David Jackson moved to the borough of Stonington, Connecticut, in 1954, purchasing a property at 107 Water Street. [3] It had once been a nineteenth-century residential and commercial structure that had first served as a drug store and a residence for the owner's family.
Coat of Arms of William Chesebrough. William Chesebrough (c.1594–1667) was a farmer and trader in the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was one of the four co-founders of Stonington, Connecticut, along with Thomas Stanton, Thomas Miner, and Walter Palmer.
The Groton and Stonington Street Railway was a trolley line created in 1904 to serve the Stonington area. The trolley was dismantled and replaced by buses in 1928. [13] In recent decades, Stonington has experienced a large influx of new home owners using historic Stonington Borough houses as second homes.
Thomas Minor (23 April 1608 – 23 October 1690) was a founder of New London [1] and Stonington, Connecticut, United States, and an early colonial New England diarist. Early life and marriage [ edit ]
Stonington: 1685 Notable for its restoration in the 1930s by early preservationist Norman Isham. NRHP. [14] [15] Samuel Harris House: Middletown: 1686 [16] May be Middletown's oldest building. NRHP. Loomis Homestead: Windsor: 1688 [17] Part of Loomis Chaffee School, main house dates to 1688, with attached ell dating to some point between 1640 ...
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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 ...