Our Summer Discovery Program was extremely successful this year!  We engaged over 35 students in the humanities and sciences.  Local youth attended free due to grants from the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, and the Chelsea Groton Community Fund.

Understand the changes as State Street in downtown New London morphs from one of the most desirable residential addresses to the commercial core of the downtown.

Online version of of an exhibit mounted at the Shaw Mansion to honor the visit of the Charles W. Morgan to New London and commemorating the industry that shaped the community and established much of its architecture.

The second largest whaling port in the world by the middle of the 19th century. Money from whaling enterprises defined much of the character of the community.