Town Revisit: Groton

The same day we visited another fort. We went to the Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park. It's partially in New London, but it's listed on the CT Department of Environmental Protection site as Groton, so I'm going with the official designation.

New England Geography Blurb:
One thing that's been challenging about visiting all the towns in Connecticut is that the state is so small a lot of things are in more than one town. On the upside, the fact that everything is so close together makes it possible to take on a project like this and the limited number of towns means I should be able to finish it. But it can also be confusing. Sometimes I think I'm in one town and find out I'm in another. Or I drive down a road and I enter and leave five towns in the space of half a mile. In a couple spots, I have stood by a town sign and been able to read the next town sign from where I was standing.

So that aside, we were officially more in Groton than New London visiting Fort Griswold. Fort Griswold would be a great place for kids to visit, and in fact there were quite a few little boys running around. There is a marker for where Griswold fell and the fort is flanked by dirt sides covered in grass, a small opening leads to a covered walkway that leads out to another area with a few buildings.
This is the site where Benedict Arnold, Connecticut's least favorite famous native, led a battle against and captured the fort killing more than half of the 165 soldiers defending it. There is a museum on site, but it was closed for repairs which we have gotten used to encountering at this point. We'll make a point of heading back here on another day as this seems to be an interesting part of the state's history.

Check out our first Groton visit.