Groton

Buildings Index (Scroll down for Noank; see also Mystic)

Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park
Fort Griswold (1775)
Groton Battle Monument (1830)
Powder Magazine (1843)

Fort Street
2 Ebenezer Avery House (1750)

Monument Street
118 Charles Merritt House (1855)
149 Capt. James Monroe Buddington House (1854)
240 Bill Memorial Library (1890)

North Road
259 Jabez Smith House (1793)

Shennecossett Road
1084 Branford House Mansion (1903)
1084 Avery Point Lighthouse (1943)

Thames Street
142 Rufus Avery House (1787)
154 Avery-Copp House (1800)

Noank

Cathedral Heights
18 Noank Baptist Church (1962)

Church Street
18 John Palmer House (1859)
25 Robert Palmer, Jr. House (1907)
39 William Gadson Rathbun House (1858)

Cove Street
11 Cornelius Fowler House (1880)
20 Harriet Arnold House (1909)

Front Street
22 William Latham House (1844)
31 John D. Latham House (1843)
45 Capt. Pardon T. Brown House (1840)
78 Former St. Joseph’s Church (1902)
82 James Potter, Jr. House (1858)
102 Noank Depot (1858)

Main Street
43 Carson’s Store (1900)
59 Moses Latham House (1845)
72 Thomas Jefferson Sawyer House (1840)
87 Noank Jail (1913)

Pearl Street
11 John T. Wheeler House (1846)
20 Roswell B. Fitch House (1850)
32 Stephen Murphy House (1851)
29 Ray S. Wilbur House (1840)
40 Horace W. Davis House (1850)
53 Charles H. Smith House (1882)
64 Rouse Davis House (1846)
81 Deacon Robert Palmer House (1884)

Spring Street
31 Abner Spencer House (1862)

Sylvan Street
17-21 Grace Episcopal Church – Noank Museum (1902)
55 Noank Methodist Church (1902)

Mystic River

Clift Street
2 Capt. Waterman Clift House (1837)

Elm Street
9 Leonard W. Morse House (1855)

Gravel Street
3 Capt. John Anthony Wolfe House (1809)
5 First Church of Christ Scientist (1820)
7 Masonic Temple (1911)
9 Capt. George Wolfe House (1818)
11 Capt. Avery Brown House (1812)
15 Edgecomb-Gates House (1835)
17 Henry Holdredge House (1835)
19 Capt. John E. Williams House (1861)
21 Denison-Smith House (1840)
23 John Gallup House (1837)
27 Daniel R. Williams House (1834)
29 Capt. John Appleman House (1837)
31 Thomas Eldredge House (1842)

High Street
76 Portersville Academy (1839)
92 Hannah Fish Brush House (1854)
119 Union Baptist Church (1829)
134 Amos C. Tift House (1851)
159 Captain William E. Wheeler House (1853)
169 John Heath House (1862)
193 Capt. William Clift House (1838)

Library Street
40 Mystic & Noank Library (1894)

New London Road
2 Lyman Dudley House (1810)

Park Place
1 John Prentice House (1860)
3 William Cann House (1860)
5 John Prentice House (1853)

Pearl Street
6 Allen Avery – Welcome Fidler House (1879)
15 St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (1867)
17 Allen Avery House (1874)
18 John Batty House (1842)
28 Parmenas Avery House (1880)
32 James Gallup House (1854)
43 Milton H. Ricker House (1869)
44 Thomas Ryley House (1859)
56 Rev. Erastus Denison House (1851)
81 Deacon Robert Palmer House (1884)

Water Street
15 The Emporium (1859)

West Main Street
1-17 Gilbert Block (1907)
54 Mystic River National Bank (1931)

West Mystic Avenue
6 Capt. Henry S. Stark House (1852)
8 Albert G. Stark House (1850)
9 (1889)
13 Chapman House (1840)

Links

Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2716&Q=325198

Avery-Copp Museum
http://www.averycopphouse.org/

Avery Memorial Association
http://www.averymemorialassociation.com/

Submarine Force Library & Museum
http://www.ussnautilus.org/

Avery Point Lighthouse
http://www.averypointlight.com/

Noank

Noank Historical Society
http://www.noankhistoricalsociety.org/aboutus.html

Mystic

(Mystic is divided between Groton & Stonington)

Mystic River Historical Society
http://www.mystichistory.org/

Books

Groton, Conn. 1705-1905 (1922), by Charles R. Stark

Historic Groton; Comprising Historic and Descriptive Sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic and Old Mystic, Conn. (1909), by Local Writers

The Stone Records of Groton (1903), by Frances Manwaring Caulkins

Battle of Groton Heights

A sermon delivered at Fort Griswold, September 6th, A. D. 1821 (1821), by Timothy Tuttle

An address, in commemoration of the sixth of September, 1781: Spoken on Groton Heights, Sept. 6, 1825 (1825), by William F. Brainard

Description of the monument of Groton Heights (1830), by Stephen Hempstead

Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun: with accurate accounts of the capture of Groton Fort, the massacre that followed, and the sacking and burning of New London, September 6, 1781, by the British forces under the command of the traitor Benedict Arnold; by Rufus Avery and Stephen Hempstead, Eye witnesses of the same (1840)

The battle of Groton Heights; the Massacre of Fort Griswold; and the Burning of New London; Historical sketch by John J. Copp, Esq., of Groton and Address by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, of Norwich on the Ninety-eighth Anniversary, Sept. 6, 1879 (1879)

1781. Groton Heights and New London: Letters from Zabdiel Rogers and Thomas Mumford (1881)

The Battle of Groton Heights (1882), by William W. Harris

Celebration of the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Battle of Groton Heights (Groton Monument Association) (1891)

The battle of Groton Heights: a story of the storming of Fort Griswold (1894), by Rev. N. H. Burnham