Groton (city), Connecticut
New London County
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Groton is a town in New London County in the south of the U.S. state of Connecticut. In 2000, Groton had 10,010 inhabitants; up to the 2009 estimate, the population fell to 9365.
Main employer in the town is the Electric Boat Company, a shipyard of General Dynamics, which builds mainly submarines for the U.S. Navy. Have so far been launched, inter alia, the USS Nautilus (SSN -571 ) ( as the first nuclear-powered submarine ), which later sunk USS Scorpion (SSN -589 ), as well as several classes of boats Ohio, Los Angeles, Seawolf and Virginia.
Train
- Charles Barnum School
- Claude Chester School
- Colonel Ledyard School
- Eastern Point School
- Groton Heights School
- Mary Morrison School
- Noank School
- Pleasant Valley School
- S. B. Butler School
- Cutler Middle School
- Fitch Middle School
- Westside Middle School
- Fitch Senior High School