Groton, Connecticut This article is about the Town of Groton.
Town of Groton USS Nautilus moored in Groton at the Submarine Force Museum USS Nautilus moored in Groton at the Submarine Force Museum Flag of Town of Groton Flag Official seal of Town of Groton Location inside New London County, Connecticut Location inside New London County, Connecticut Groton / r t n/ is a town positioned on the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
Groton is the home of the Electric Boat Corporation, which is the primary contractor for submarine work for the United States Navy.
The Naval Submarine Base New London is positioned in Groton, and the pharmaceutical business Pfizer is also a primary employer.
The Avery Point section of Groton is home to a county-wide ground of the University of Connecticut.
8 Pictures of Groton Groton Monument and Fort Griswold, a sketch by John Warner Barber for his Historical Collections of Connecticut (1836) Groton was established in 1705 when it separated from New London, Connecticut.
Groton is the home of General Dynamics Electric Boat which has been supplying the Navy with submarines since 1899, employing thousands in the Groton/New London area.
The Old Mystic Baptist Church was established in Groton, the first Baptist church in Connecticut.
A hundred years before the town was established, the Nehantic citizens settled in the region between the Thames and Pawcatuck rivers.
The Pequots finally settled in what is now Groton.
They assembled three villages at Groton Heights, Fort Hill, and Mystic.
The rivers in Groton were their transit routes; on the west side was the deep Thames River; on the east is the Mystic River with shelving shores and a safe anchorage.
On the south was Fishers Island Sound, part of Long Island Sound, rimmed by a ragged, rocky shoreline with many coves and inlets, and three sandy beaches at Eastern Point, Bluff Point, and Groton Long Point.
The first pioneer of Groton were subsistence farmers.
Groton became a town of oceangoing settlers.
Thomas Starr assembled a 67-ton square-sterned vessel, and Thomas Latham launched a 100-ton brig on the Groton bank with mast standing and fully rigged.
The sturdy ships assembled in Groton engaged in very profitable trade with the islands of the Caribbean.
Rough times came to the Connecticut town of Groton when the French and Indian War ended and the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 were passed.
Parliament closed down the port of Boston, crippling Groton's commerce.
On September 6, 1781, the Revolutionary War Battle of Groton Heights was fought between a small militia detachment led by William Ledyard and various British forces led by Benedict Arnold.
Across the Thames River in New London, Benedict Arnold was dominant an 800-man detachment which finished stockpiles of goods and naval stores.
Meanwhile, a British force of 800 men moved towards Fort Griswold in Groton, which was garrisoned by 164 militia and small-town men.
The British then attacked, opening the bloody Battle of Groton Heights.
A memorial for the Battle of Groton Heights was put up in 1830 for the 88 men and boys who were killed at the fort.
Fort Griswold is the only endured memorial in town left from the Revolutionary War.
The 135-foot-tall (41 m) monument has turn into the town's motif and is now featured on the Groton town seal.
Monument erected in 1830 memorializes the American troops massacred by the British following the surrender of Fort Griswold in the Battle of Groton Heights amid the American Revolution.
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, Groton started to re-establish its commercial activities.
These ships went on trips to Florida, and the resulting profits made Mystic the most grow part of the town.
Between 1784 and 1800, 32 vessels were assembled in Groton.
Most of the United States' small navy was landlocked in the Thames River.
This frightened the citizens in Groton for fear that there would be a repeat of the Groton Heights massacre of 1781, and many inhabitants fled inland for safety.
The British never attacked but created a blockade that ruined Groton's trade.
Some men from Mystic flourishing a British barge to Groton Long Point on August 12, 1814, the day after the British attacked Stonington, gaining themselves 2,600 dollars in prize cash.
Seventeen Mystic men also tried out a new weapon called the spar torpedo to rid themselves of the British blockade.
All the men made it safely to the shore while being fired at by the British ship and the American sentries at Eastern Point.
Groton received word that the war was over on February 21, 1815.
The land-locked frigates left the Thames in April, leaving Groton to resume its marine pursuits.
After the War of 1812, whaling became a very meaningful part of Groton's economy, but most of the expeditions were still for seal skins.
By 1846, Groton became one of the world's prime whaling ports.
Allen, another son of Groton, spent 25 years commanding a whale ship.
The most meaningful vessel assembled at the Mystic River Shipyard was the clipper ship Andrew Jackson.
The Mystic shipyards started building ships with a greater cargo capacity after the Civil War.
A business in Groton was chosen to build a bomb-proof steamer designed by C.S.
During the Civil War, 56 steamships were assembled for government service in shipyards on both sides of the Mystic River.
After the war, there were dozens of excess war steamships and, after 1870, ship assembly moved up to Noank inside the Groton town limits.
A marine stockyards assembled in Groton in 1860 allowed them to pull vessels out of the water for repairs, which brought in a lot of company and cash.
Iron ships began to be demanded, and their assembly thriving workers to Groton.
Housing was beginning to run short, so Groton Realty had to hurry to build hotels and cottages.
The Naval Submarine Base New London was established in Groton in 1872 as the New London Navy Yard.
Groton used to include what is now the town of Ledyard, which separated from Groton in 1836.
The initial center of Groton is still known as Center Groton at the present-day intersection of Route 184 and Route 117, now in the north-central part of town, due to the departure of Ledyard to the north.
Groton Center was the locale of the town's first school, church, tavern, and stagecoach shop.
In the 20th century, the ship assembly trade moved from the Mystic River to the Thames River.
However, until 1931, submarines designed by Electric Boat were subcontracted to other shipyards, primarily Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Electric Boat commenced industrialized operations in Groton with the establishment of the New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) as a subsidiary in 1911.
In 1931, the USS Cuttlefish was laid down as the first submarine assembled in Groton.
During World War II, Electric Boat instead of submarines every two weeks.
Groton is sometimes referred to as the "Submarine Capital of the World," due to the long-standing history of submarines in the town, and the fact that Groton has one of the biggest submarine bases in the world.
The National World War II Submarine Memorial East is positioned in Groton, including parts of USS Flasher. The Groton and Stonington Street Railway was a street car line that was created in 1904 to serve the Groton area.
There are two primary companies in Groton: General Dynamics Electric Boat and Pfizer.
Pfizer is one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, and the business maintains a 137-acre (0.55 km2) research and evolution facility in Groton.
1 Naval Submarine Base New London 10,150 4 Town of Groton 947 6 City of Groton 266 According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 45.3 square miles (117.3 km2), of which 31.0 square miles (80.4 km2) is territory and 14.2 square miles (36.9 km2), or 31.47%, is water. Center Groton City of Groton positioned along the Thames River Groton Heights or Groton Bank historic precinct in the northern part of the town/city area Groton Long Point Mystic (06355) primarily in the neighboring town of Stonington, but a small portion (West Mystic) is in Groton Climate data for Groton New London Airport (GON) (1981-2010), snow data from Norwich, Connecticut (1981-2010).
Average snowy days ( 0.05) 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 In the town, the age distribution of the populace shows 24.8% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 33.0% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
There are many schools in the Groton area.
Groton Public Schools presently include 11 schools, but there are plans to consolidate the three middle schools into two middle schools.
Grasso/Southeastern Technical High School, a technical school which serves Groton and encircling communities Groton Monument, one of the earliest obelisks in the United States Town inhabitants or the rest closely associated with Groton: Albion (1896 1983), influential maritime historian who died in Groton 1946), marathoner who interval up in Groton Silas Deane (1737 1789), delegate to the Continental Congress and the United States' first foreign diplomat; born in Groton Navy admiral and commander of the Pacific Fleet at the time of attack on Pearl Harbor, died in Groton John Ledyard (1751 1789), global explorer born in Groton Lou Palazzi (1921 2007), NFL player and umpire born in Groton Thomas Rogers (1792 1856), builder of innovative locomotives, born in Groton Samuel Seabury (1729 1796), first American Episcopal bishop, born in Groton Tookoolito (1838 1876), famous Inuit guide to Arctic explorers, lived in Groton and is buried there in the Starr Burying Ground From the Ocean House, Groton (about 1860) by Charles De - Wolf Brownell The Groton part of downtown Mystic Morgan Point Light is positioned in Noank in southeastern Groton.
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