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Profile of the City of New London

Settled: 1646 (named 1658)
Incorporated: 1784
Land area: 5.7 square miles
Population: 26,820
Government: City Council – City Manager
Council appoints Mayor (1-yr term)

Access: Interstate 95; Auto ferry service to Long Island and Fishers Island; High Speed passenger ferry service to Long Island and Block Island; Amtrak regional and Acela rail service; Shoreline East commuter rail (approximately 20 trains daily)

Attractions: Historic downtown waterfront district and Waterfront Park; Garde Arts Center; Cruise ship and cargo destination port; Ocean Beach Park; United States Coast Guard Academy; Fort Trumbull State Park; USCG Three-masted Barque EAGLE (training tall ship for the Coast Guard Academy); Schooner Mystic Whaler; sportfishing and yacht harbors.

Distinctive architecture marks New London’s Historic Waterfront District. Many structures are 100+ years old, including the 1784 Courthouse, H.H. Richardson’s Union Station and the New London Public Library, the Historic Hempstead Houses, Starr Street, and Whale Oil Row on Huntington Street.

Colleges: New London is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy (the only Federal Service Academy in New England), Connecticut College and Mitchell College. The Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut is in nearby Groton, and the Lyme College of Art is in Old Lyme.

Museums include the Lyman Allyn Museum, the 1833 Custom House Maritime Museum, the Shaw Mansion, the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, Monte Cristo Cottage (Eugene O’Neill home), and museums at Fort Trumbull State Park and the Coast Guard Academy. Nearby museums include Mystic Seaport Museum, the Historic Ship USS Nautilus and Submarine Force Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum.

Arts and culture thrive in New London with numerous galleries and the active Garde Arts Center, which hosts theatre, music and dance, as well as being the home of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

Local area attractions include Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Marinelife Aquarium, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, as well as historic villages of Essex, Mystic, Stonington.

Employers include Pfizer Inc, Electric Boat (General Dynamics), Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, AT&T, Sonalysts, Inc., Millstone Nuclear Power Station, the colleges, The Day publishing company and the U.S. Naval Submarine Base.

Regional Industries include Healthcare and Biotechnology, Defense (including nuclear submarine construction), shipbuilding, engineering and manufacturing, education, tourism, hospitality and entertainment, and marine education and research.