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| Groton Congregational Church, 1902 |
This stone church is
the congregation's fourth meeting house, the church having been founded in 1702, three years before Groton became a town separate
from New London. Members over the past three centuries have included
most defenders of Fort Griswold, many sea captains and numerous Groton community leaders.
Six major contributors
giving $1,000 each about 1902 help make this fine structure possible. They were members Capt. Jason L. Randall,
Thomas Avery Miner, William H. Miner and Frederic Bill; and philantropists John D. Rockefeller, who mother was descended
from the Groton Averys; and New York City philanthropist Morton F. Plant who also had a summer mansion on the Groton
shoreline.
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