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The Mystic River Historic District encompasses the part of the village of Mystic, Connecticut that is on the Groton side of the Mystic River.The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 1979, approximately 235-acre (95 ha) which includes much of the village of West Mystic and many buildings from the 19th century.
It includes the Mystic Seaport Museum, whose grounds and floating vessels represent the area's history, and the 1924 Mystic River Bascule Bridge. The district is significant as a well-preserved shipbuilding and maritime village of the 19th and early 20th centuries, [2] and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
The “streets” of the open-air Seaport Village at the Mystic Seaport Museum are lined with 200-plus-year-old trade shops that were transported from maritime towns throughout New England.
Mystic is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut, United States. Mystic was a significant Connecticut seaport with more than 600 ships built over 135 years starting in 1784. [ 4 ]
Noank (/ ˈ n oʊ æ ŋ k / NOH-ank) is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut, United States.This dense community of historic homes and local businesses sits on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River and has a long tradition of fishing, lobstering and boat-building.
Mystic Seaport Museum (founded as Marine Historical Association) is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, the largest in the United States. [1] Its 19-acre (0.077 km 2) site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and ...
Police said the group appeared in front of Olde Mistick Village on Coogan Boulevard at 3:00 p.m. and stayed for about an hour. Drivers passing by reported that the […] Community alarmed by man ...
The men in Mystic captured a sloop, the cargo of which they later sold for 6,000 dollars. Seventeen Mystic men also tried out a new weapon called the spar torpedo to rid themselves of the British blockade. They brought the torpedo from New York; it was 30 feet (9 m) long, 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter, and had a 12-foot (4 m) crossbar at one end.