Stop and visit the Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center in Olde Mistick Village, a quaint shopping center with boutiques from the wall. Have some great advice. In addition to the famous aquarium, indoor and outdoor exhibits and hands on exploration of Mystic Seaport, teachers and artisans in costume of the 19th century to describe life in a shipbuilding port city offers a ride across the river and explore the houses on the coast. Not only were granted review crowdedMystic Seaport with hundreds of children roaming on ships, buildings and other artifacts, they also have the narrow streets of the waterfront. Drive at a walking pace, admiring the houses of citizens. Each house has a plaque naming the original owner, employment and the construction date. There were carpenters, captains, sail makers, doctors, priests, traders, caterers, mechanics, etc. This is a real pleasure, not only far from the madding crowd, but also see 19Century actually lived in homes where these men and their families. From the outside, design, size, architecture and landscape design environment, these wealthy men.
Leaving the rest in water, the rest of the city, past Mystic Pizza, where it was filmed in 1988. The rest of the town lies on the hills, overlooking the Mystic River and Long Sound Iceland. On the way out of town on Rte. 1 Find a small war cemetery1812th
Stop in Stonington, Connecticut, another surprise. Once again, the streets are closely related to people's homes in the shipment. A house of great Captain Edmund Fanning who was the first in the United States of America flag flying around the world in 1798-9 on board the Betsy.
A little known event that occurred here, a bitter struggle against the British. Holding the first landing of English ships of the three parties, local civil Stonington and Mystic before the 'Invasion. A lighthouse at the point is since the battle. The cemetery is home to move to these brave men of Mystic. Stonington's men are buried in the cemetery of their historic city.
On the other side of the Pawcatuck River, the dividing line between Connecticut and Rhode Island, to dare to Westerly, Rhode Island. Look at the banquet to Watch Hill Point. This carousel was built in 1870. Each horse is hand carved from one pieceof wood. The mane and tail are real horsehair. The horses swing when the revelry of flying to illusing laps. The party is still in operation.
The next visit to New London. New London is also the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill's Monte Cristo Cottage. In view of the harbor, O'Neill used, the only playwright to win the Nobel Prize, this setting for two of his plays, Wilderness Long Day's Journey Into Night and Ah,. Signage in Connecticut is wonderful until you get intoCity. The founding fathers assumed that you know what you're on the road. They are very well cross over giving the names of streets, but are careless on the main roads. You might have a hard time finding Pequot Street, where O'Neill was at home. Use a card.
Trumbull House, the Ministry of War. In the heart of Lebanon, Connecticut, where the home of Jonathan Trumbull, colonial governor, only sided with the revolutionaries. London was halfway between Boston and New York. His housewas the meeting place of over 1,200 meetings strategy. Perhaps the most important has been with Washington and Comte de Rochambeau before the Battle of Yorktown.
His neighbor to the event, Dr. William Beaumont, the "father of physiology". He observes and documents the digestion in humans from a wound in the stomach of the patient would not have healed properly.
