Groton is a town in New London County, Connecticut located upon the Thames River. It is the house of General Dynamics Electric Boat, which is the major contractor for submarine pretend for the United States Navy. The Naval Submarine Base New London is located in Groton, and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer is next a major employer. Avery Point in Groton is house to a regional campus of the University of Connecticut. The population was 38,411 at the 2020 census.

Groton was traditional in 1705 next it estranged from New London, Connecticut. The town was named after Groton, Suffolk in England. A hundred years past it was established, the Niantic people settled in the Place between the Thames River and Pawcatuck River, but they eventually decided in Westerly, Rhode Island. The newcomers to the house were the Pequots, a branch of the Mohawk people who moved eastward into the Connecticut River Valley.

The summer of 1614 was the first grow old that the Pequots encountered white settlers. They started trading furs for the settlers’ goods, such as steel knives, needles, and boots. In 1633, the Dutch bought estate from them and opened a fur trading post. Meanwhile, the English bought house for unity from the local tribes. The Dutch had by mistake killed the Pequots’ chief, and this prompted revenge by the Pequot tribe, and this escalated into the Pequot War (1636–1638). On the night of May 26, 1637, the Colonial forces arrived outside the Pequot village near the Mystic River. The palisade surrounding the village had forlorn two exits, and their leader Colonel John Mason gave the order to set the village on blaze and block off the exits. Those who tried climbing higher than the palisade were shot; anyone who succeeded in getting more than was killed by the Narragansett forces.

The house was poor for farming, but entrance to the region’s waterways left room for commerce and trade, and Groton became a town of oceangoing settlers. Most of the community began to construct ships, and soon traders made their exaggeration to Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony to trade for food, tools, weapons, and clothing. John Leeds was the primeval shipbuilder, coming as a sea captain from Kent, England. He built a 20-ton brigantine, a two-masted sailing boat with square-rigged sails upon the foremast and fore-and-aft sails upon the mainmast. Thomas Starr built a 67-ton square-sterned vessel, and Thomas Latham launched a 100-ton brig on the Groton bank considering mast standing and fully rigged. The sturdy ships built in Groton engaged in intensely profitable trade in imitation of the islands of the Caribbean.