Long Island Sound · CT
Old Saybrook
Where the Connecticut River meets the Sound, and Yale began.
- Population
- 10,481 (2020 census)
- Saybrook Colony
- Late 1635
- Yale chartered here
- October 9, 1701
Then
- 1635
The Saybrook Colony is founded at the river mouth under John Winthrop the Younger, with Lion Gardiner.
- 1636–1637
Saybrook Fort is besieged for months in the Pequot War.
- 1701
The Collegiate School, later Yale, is chartered here. It moves to New Haven in 1716.
Now
Katharine Hepburn lived in the borough of Fenwick, and the arts center downtown bears her name. Lynde Point and Saybrook Breakwater lights mark the river mouth.
This stretch runs up the Connecticut River past Essex and Hadlyme, and along the shore from Branford, Guilford and Madison to Westbrook.
14 tide stations around Old Saybrook
- Saybrook Point1.5 mi
- Lyme, highway bridge2.5 mi
- Saybrook Jetty2.6 mi
- Essex3.9 mi
- Westbrook, Duck Island Roads5.3 mi
- Clinton Harbor8.2 mi
- Hadlyme9.3 mi
- Madison11.2 mi
- Tylerville12.0 mi
- Haddam14.8 mi
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- Guilford Harbor15.1 mi
- Sachem Head17.5 mi
- Norwich22.2 mi
- Branford, Branford River23.1 mi