HISTORIC HAVEN

摘要

BEFORE THERE was even a United States of America, there was a man named Deacon James Morgan. In 1712, he became owner of the land at the mouth of the Mystic River, a spot we know today as coastal Connecticut at the intersection with Long Island Sound. Morgan's descendants-who spent their lives building ships and going to sea themselves-eventually sold the land to the federal government. The original Morgan Point Light was built in the early 1800s along with a keeper's house of stone. Abrighter lighthouse was established later that century, what with all the marine traffic in this part of the New World.