What is the history of East Lyme, Connecticut?
The Thomas Lee house is the oldest home in Connecticut that is maintained in its original state, circa 1660. This building is located in the southwestern section of East Lyme, adjacent to Rocky Neck State Park, at the intersection of Connecticut Route 156 and Giants Neck Road. Co-Located on this site is the one room ‘Little Boston Schoolhouse” which was relocated from across CT Route 156. Town features no less than 6 homes from 1699 or earlier and the Old Stone Church Burial Ground from 1719 located off Society & Riverview Roads. Originally inhabited by the Nehantic Indians with villages in the modern day Indian Woods section as well as on Black Point, McCooks Beach area and near the Niantic River. Allied with the colonists in the 1636 war against the Pequot Indians the Nehantic eventually died out in the mid 1800s. The 1750s map of Ezra Stiles shows the village in modern day Indian Woods of the Nehantic people as was described as “12 or 13 huts”. East Lyme then a part of Lyme had seve
