Article: History in towns: Stonington Borough, Connecticut.

Stonington Borough, part of the Town of Stonington in southeastern Connecticut, was first settled in 1753, a little more than a century after William Chesebrough (1594-1667) established a trading post at nearby Wequetequock Cove in 1649. Built on a granite peninsula less than a mile long, with wetlands to the north and the sea on the other three sides, the borough had only limited possibilities for expansion (see Fig. 1). In 1873 the New York Daily Graphic described it as one of the most picturesque of the Connecticut villages along the northern shore of Long Island Sound." (1) Although some houses survive from the eighteenth century, the majority are in the ...