Stonington: A Bibliography

 

Introduction

Wherever we live or spend even a few months a year, we collect books about the location. This list of books is the beginning of a collection about Stonington, Connecticut.

We welcome suggestions for additions.

          Stonington: A Bibliography

Bailey, Anthony. In The Village. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Boas, Norman. Stonington During the American Revolution. Mystic: Seaport Autographs, 1990.

Boeschenstein, Warren. “Stonington Connecticut,” Chapter Six in Historic American Towns Along the Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999. 116-136. 

 

 
 

Brown, Peter MeGargee, Village: Where to Live and How to Live. New York: Benchmark,
     1997.

Calabretta, Fred, ed.  Fishing Out of Stonington. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2004.

De Kay, James Tertius, The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the
     War of 1812
. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Dodge, Anne Atwood. Recollections of Old Stonington. Stonington: Pequot Press, 1966.

Du Pont, Judith G. The Stonington Tragedy: Murder at Darling Hill. Stonington: Stonington
   
 Historical Society, 2007.

Fought, Leigh. A History of Mystic Connecticut from Pequot Village to Tourist Town.
     Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2007. (Note: Despite its title, this book includes a lot of
     information about Stonington, although not all in one chapter.)

Haynes, Williams. Stonington Chronology, 1649-1976. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1976.

McCain, Diana Ross, “Stonington” in Connecticut Coast: A Town-by-Town Illustrated
     History
. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2009. 244-252.

Palmer, Henry Robinson. Stonington by the Sea. Stonington: Palmer Press, 1913.

The Stonington Historical Society. An Hour’s Walk Through the Borough of Stonington, CT,
     2008.

 

We greatly appreciate the assistance of Betty Richards in identifying these books.