Old Lyme, Connecticut Old Lyme, Connecticut Official seal of Old Lyme, Connecticut Old Lyme is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

The US command posts of Sennheiser is positioned in Old Lyme, as is Callaway Cars, the Florence Griswold Museum (including the Florence Griswold House), the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the Lyme Art Association.

Old Lyme and its neighboring town Lyme are the namesake for Lyme disease.

The town of Old Lyme contains a several villages, including Black Hall, Laysville, Lyme, Soundview, and South Lyme.

2 Old Lyme Art Colony Railroad Bridge over the Four Mile River's mouth which joins East Lyme to Old Lyme's easterly shore.

Old Lyme is a improve of about 7,600 permanent residents, in addition to a several thousand cyclic vacationers who occupy a seaside improve of summer residences.

The town of Lyme was set off from Saybrook (now known as Deep River), which is on the west bank of the river mouth, on February 13, 1665.

South Lyme was later incorporated from Lyme in 1855, then retitled Old Lyme in 1857 because it contains the earliest-settled portion of the "Lymes". Old Lyme is situated in about 27 square miles (70 km2) of shoreline, tidal marsh, inland wetlands and forested hills.

Its neighbor to the north is the town of Lyme, and to the east is East Lyme.

Other placenames from the same root are Hadlyme (between Lyme and East Haddam) and South Lyme (a beach resort region of Old Lyme).

The placename "Lyme" derives from Lyme Regis, a small port on the coast of Dorset, England, from which it is believed the early pioneer migrated in the 17th century. The picturesque Old Lyme Cemetery contains the graves of the initial settlers.

The "Lyme" in Lyme disease was titled after the town.

It was identified in 1975 after a mysterious outbreak of what appeared to be juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in kids who lived in Lyme and Old Lyme.

Old Lyme Art Colony see chief page Old Lyme Art Colony The Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme homed an art colony for many years in the early 20th century to many prominent American Impressionist painters.

These artists made Old Lyme a grow art community, which still continues today.

The Griswold House was transformed into an art exhibition, the Florence Griswold Museum, or affectionately called "Flo Gris", by inhabitants of Old Lyme.

The building of the Old Lyme Congregational Church is known for the many paintings that have been made of it, most prominently by Childe Hassam.

View of the Connecticut River in Old Lyme near its mouth at Long Island Sound Church at Old Lyme, petroleum on canvas, Childe Hassam, 1905 Florence Griswold House and Museum 96 Lyme St.

Old Lyme Historic District Lyme Street from Shore Road to Sill Lane, Old Boston Post Road from Sill Lane to Rose Lane (added November 14, 1971) Jim Calhoun (1942- ), head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team, which won three nationwide championships, and who was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005; began his longterm position as a coach in town at Lyme-Old Lyme High School Elisabeth Gordon Chandler (1913 2006), sculptor, resident, and founder of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Albert Einstein, who had a summer home on the Old Lyme shore Walker Evans, photographer; lived in Old Lyme until his death in 1975 Childe Hassam (1859 1935), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Wilson Irvine (1869 1936), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Willard Metcalf (1858 1925), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Henry Ward Ranger (1858 1916), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Edward Charles Volkert (1871 1935), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Clark Voorhees (1871 1933), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony Old Lyme, along with neighboring Old Saybrook, appreciates a mostly mild temperate climate.

Old Lyme center Other minor communities and geographic features in the town are Between the Rivers, Black Hall Pond, Brighton Beach, Ferry Road, Flat Rock Hill, Four Mile River, Griswold Point, Hall's Corners, Hawk's Nest Beach, Homestead Circle, Johnnycake Hill, Miami Beach, Mile Creek, Neck Road, Old Colony Beach, Old Lyme Estates, Old Lyme Shores, Rogers Lake, Sill Lane, Smith's Neck, Tantummaheag, Tuttles Sandy Beach, Whippoorwill, and White Sands Beach.

Rogers Lake is positioned in the suburbs of Old Lyme and Lyme and is formed by a dam along Town Woods Road in Old Lyme.

Relaxing behind the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme 1,450 kids from the suburbs of Old Lyme and Lyme were enrolled in the five schools of Regional District 18 at the start of the 2011 2012 academic year.

Lyme Consolidated School is for grades pre-k through 5, Mile Creek School is for grades K through 5, Center School is for pre-k the rest of the building is being used for office space, Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School is for grades 6 through 8, and Lyme-Old Lyme High School is for grades 9 through 12.

Old Lyme also has a number of students who travel to private schools, including close-by parochial schools such as Xavier High School, Mercy High School, and Saint Bernard School, and some students who go to college preliminary schools such as The Williams School in New London.

Founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative art academy for the teaching of sculpture, drawing, illustration and painting, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the disciplines of painting and sculpture.

The Estuary Transit District provides enhance transit throughout Old Lyme and the encircling towns through its 9 Town Transit Service.

"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Old Lyme town, New London County, Connecticut".

Old Lyme, Lyme, and Hadlyme.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Old Lyme.

Town of Old Lyme official website Lyme - Line, an online improve journal covering Old Lyme and Lyme

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