Where is Groton Bank?
What is Groton Bank? Groton Bank is a historic village on the east bank of the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut. Geographically it comprises less that a half square mile–about 1 % of the Town of Groton and about 10% of the Town’s major subdivision, the City of Groton. Today the Groton Bank neighborhood contains a few hundred houses, three churches, a library, two museums, a Revolutionary War fort and business structures dating primarily from Colonial times to a century ago. Groton Bank and Fort Griswold are separate but adjacent Historic Districts listed on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places. Historic Village of Groton Bank Soule, Ellis and Beers, 1868 Atlas of New London County Connecticut In 1655 the ferry operator Cary Latham became the first permanent English settler on the east bank of the Thames River when it was part of the Pequot Colony, later to become New London. After Groton became a separate town in 1705 the east bank of the river
