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Stonington

Connecticut, United States
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Stonington, town (township), New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound and the Rhode Island state line. The town includes Stonington borough (incorporated 1801) and the villages of Mystic and Pawcatuck. Settled in 1649 by colonists from Plymouth, it was given its present name in 1666. Stonington developed prosperous shipbuilding and whaling industries; it also suffered naval attacks by the British in 1775 during the American Revolution and again in 1814 during the...

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