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Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ... Mary's Catholic Church was established in 1858 to serve the Catholic residents of Ayer. [30]
It was named in honor of one of the original Selectmen, Dean Winthrop, who was born in Groton, Suffolk County, England. In 1676, during the King Philip’s War, Indians attacked the town and burned down all but four garrison houses. The surviving residents fled to Concord and other safe havens returning two years later to rebuild the town.
Groton seamen sailed to the ends of the earth hunting seals and whales. Major shipyards developed. At West Mystic, Maxson & Fish built clipper ships and the Civil War ironclad Galena. After the war, in 1868, a Navy Yard was established on the Thames River, which during World War I was officially commissioned as a submarine base.
Groton School. Groton School was founded in 1884 by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, a member of a prominent Massachusetts family. The land for the school was donated to Peabody by two brothers, James and Prescott Lawrence, whose family home was located on Farmers Row in Groton, Massachusetts, north of Groton School's present location.
Groton is known primarily as the seat of two famous preparatory schools. Lawrence Academy, founded as Groton Academy in 1793, was renamed in 1846 for Amos and William Lawrence, who endowed it. Groton School was founded in 1884 by the Reverend Endicott Peabody as a privately endowed boarding school (grades 8–12) for boys.
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Jan 31, 2024 · European settlers established the Groton Plantation in 1655 along a preexisting Indigenous trail, and the settlement functioned as a trading post for exchange with the Nashaway people. For a time, the Nashua River formed a contentious boundary between White and Indian territory; a stone on the edge of Groton School’s campus memorializes John Davis, “killed by Indians at his door” in 1704.
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Apr 9, 2020 · History. Groton was established in 1705, named after Groton, Suffolk in England. In 1931, USS Cuttlefish was the first submarine built in Groton. During WWII, Electric Boat completed submarines every two weeks. In 1954, Electric Boat launched USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. You can tour this submarine at the ...
