Old Lyme, Connecticut

New London County

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Old Lyme is a town in New London County in the U.S. state of Connecticut, with about 7600 inhabitants ( 2010). Old Lyme is with the neighboring town of Lyme the namesake for Lyme disease. In Old Lyme is the U.S. headquarters of Sennheiser.

History

Old Lyme is located on the eastern shore of the mouth of the Connecticut River and was on February 13, 1665 from lying on the west bank city of Saybrook founded.

When New England hurricane in 1938 parts of the city were destroyed.

Old Lyme art colony

At the beginning of the 20th century, an artists' colony was founded in Old Lyme, which exists to this day. Many major American Impressionists lived in the colony, including Childe Hassam, Edward Charles Volkert, Willard Metcalf, Wilson Irvine, Robert William and Henry Ward Ranger Vonnoh. The Florence Griswold House, the seat of the colony, is today a museum of Impressionist painting.

Universities

The city has an art college

Sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who are associated with the city

  • Albert Einstein had a summer home in Old Lyme
  • The U.S. politician Thomas R. Ball died in 1943 in the city.
  • The economist Richard Theodore Ely died in 1943 in the city.
  • The U.S. politician Thomas J. Dodd died in 1971 in the city.
  • The comedian and actor Chris Elliott has lived here since 2008.
  • Neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and cybernetician had a farm here.
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