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.

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  • 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
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