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Local Town Informations
Town of Stonington
The Town of Stonington is in New London County, Connecticut in the southeastern corner of that U.S. state. It includes the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck and Wequetequock, and the eastern half of the village of Mystic (the other half being in the town of Groton).
Known as "The Borough" to the locals, the densely-built Borough of Stonington occupies a point of land that projects into Little Narragansett Bay. It has two main streets that link two squares, Cannon Square and Wadawanuck Square, named for the former Wadawanuck Hotel that brought fashionable visitors in the post-Civil War era. The lack of through traffic or modern industry, together with the borough's role as a fashionable summer residence, have preserved its colonial, Federal, and outstanding Greek revival domestic architecture, while the activity of Connecticut's last remaining fishing and lobstering fleet keep it from being simply a quaint, historic village. There is a large community of Portuguese descent.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 50.0 square miles (129.6 km²), of which, 38.7 square miles (100.2 km²) of it is land and 11.4 square miles (29.4 km²) of it (22.68%) is water.
In the waters off Stonington, the states of New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island come together at a single point.
History
The first European colonists came to the town in 1649, on lands that had belonged to the Pequots who referred to the areas making up Stonington as "Pawcatuck" and "Mistack." It was named "Souther Towne" or Southertown, by Massachusetts in 1658, and was renamed as Stonington when Connecticut established its claim over the territory in 1665. Thomas Miner and Walter Palmer were among the founders. The town of North Stonington was set off as a parish from Stonington in 1724 and incorporated as a town in 1807.
Stonington first gained wealth in the 1790s when its harbor was home to a fleet engaged in the profitable sealing trade in which the skins of seals clubbed on islands off the Chilean and Patagonian coasts were sold as fur in China.[3]
Stonington repulsed two British naval bombardments. One, during the American Revolution, was a desultory bombardment by Sir James Wallace in the frigate Rose on August 30, 1775. The other was a more damaging three-day affair between August 9 and 12, 1814. During the War of 1812, four British vessels, HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror, under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy, appeared offshore on August 9, 1814. The British demanded immediate surrender, but Stonington’s citizens replied with a note that stated, "We shall defend the place to the last extremity; should it be destroyed, we shall perish in its ruins." For three days the Royal Navy pounded the town, but the only fatality was that of an elderly woman who was mortally ill. The British, after suffering many dead and wounded, sailed off on 12 August.
Westerly, Rhode Island
Westerly is a town on the south shore of Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1669 by John Babcock, it is a beachfront community on the south shore of the state. The population was 22,966 at the 2000 census.
Westerly's primary industries today are textiles and tourism, but historically Westerly was also famous for its granite, mined from quarries in Bradford and Potter Hill.
Westerly was named for the settlement's location, respective to Rhode Island's geography, being the westernmost town in the state. There is also a possibility that Westerly got its name from the English village of Westerleigh, England. The English village was the home of one of Westerly, Rhode Island's founding fathers, Elder John Crandall (abt. 1612-1676). Elder John settled in Westerly in 1661 and the early history of Westerly contains many references to him and to his sons.
Westerly sits atop a glacial moraine, which is a series of small hills of debris left behind by receding glaciers in the last ice age.A pristine sample of the moraine encompasses a 140-acre (0.57 km²) preserve owned in perpetuity by the Westerly Land Trust. Within the trust land are the rare "kettle formations that extend out under the sea to Block Island.
On the western border of Westerly flows the Pawcatuck River, once renowned for its own species of Westerly salmon, three of which are on the town's crest. The Pawcatuck River flows from some fifteen miles (24 km) deep into neighboring towns in the north and empties in Little Narragansett Bay. The Pawcatuck River also serves as the boundary between Westerly and Stonington, Connecticut. Along the coast of Westerly lie salt ponds, which serve as shallow reeflike pools, whose outer walls form the long, white beaches for which the town became renowned. From west to east, these ponds are called Winnapaug Pond, Weekapaug Pond and Quonochontaug Pond. The town also has a fresh water lake, Chapman's Pond, which is undergoing revitalization. Also, Westerly granite is mined here, some of it even made the Georgia state house.
Westerly becomes a large tourist attraction during the summer months - some argue that the population nearly doubles. Famous beaches, from west to east are Watch Hill Beach, East Beach, Misquamicut Beach, Westerly Town Beach, and Weekapaug Beach.The ponds and accesses to the open water make fine areas for safe kayaking.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 74.8 square miles (193.8 km²), of which, 30.1 square miles (77.9 km²) of it is land and 44.7 square miles (115.8 km²) of it (59.78%) is water.
Villages
Westerly consists of a number of small villages. Downtown Westerly, on the Pawcatuck River, is the municipal seat of the area, with the old town post office, library, YMCA, railroad station police headquarters, granite buildings and Wilcox Park.
Other villages are Watch Hill (with its fantastic beaches and summer cottages - along with the world-renowned club, the Misquamicut Club), Misquamicut (a beachfront community with small amounts of nightlife and lots of hotels), Winnapaug (with its public golf courses.), Weekapaug, Dunn's Corners, Bradford(the only village with its own post office and postal zip code), Shelter Harbor (a private residential community with its new private golf course, the Shelter Harbor Golf Club), Avondale (an old New England fishing community, with antique colonial and Queen Anne style homes and tree-lined streets), Potter Hill (where the Town Forest is located), and White Rock.
For the most part, Westerly's citizens identify themselves with the town, as opposed to the village in which they reside. The town is renowned for its pride, fostered by its beautiful beaches and events such as First Night and The Summer Pops, hosted by the Chorus of Westerly every June in the town park. In recent years the Columbus Day Parade (October) and Westerly-Pawcatuck Chamber of Commerce Duck Race (April) along with several high-profile events on the Misquamicut beachfront, such as the Annual Misquamicut Music Festival, have attracted many visitors.
The granite mining and the stone-cutting industry put Westerly on the map. Its quarries produced some of the finest blue granite in the world, in addition to pinks and reds. The Smith Granite Co, which employed some of the finest granite cutting craftsmen in the world, was one of the town's major employers until the quarries stopped operating in the 1950s. Hundreds of examples of their work can be seen in the battlefields of Gettysburg and in city squares, municipal buildings and cemeteries throughout the United States.
The Guild Guitar Company, founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge in New York City, moved production to Westerly in 1967 and continued to make it's well respected archtop, acoustic and solid body guitars there until 1996, when they were bought by Fender Musical Instruments and production was moved to Corona, California.
Westerly also boasts a rich sports history. Eddie Sawyer, former major league baseball manager (Philadelphia), is from Westerly, as is former Washington Senators pitcher Dave Stenhouse. Frankie Frisch, player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' famous "Gashouse Gang," retired to and lived the remainder of his life in Westerly, and Elisson "Tarzan" Brown, one of the finest marathon runners in the world, is from the Westerly area.
