Stonington, a town and port of Connecticut, on the Atlantic, 14 miles by rail E. of New London, and at the junction of one of the railway and steamer routes between New York and Boston. It has a capacious harbour, a foundry, and tin-factories. Pop. (1890) 7184.
Stonington
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 749
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