New London information

New London is a city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut.
New London was founded in 1646. It was a base of American naval operations during the Revolutionary War and was a major whaling port in the 19th century. The harbor at New London was at one time considered to be the best on Long Island Sound. The city is home to Connecticut College and the United States Coast Guard Academy. New London Harbor is home port to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter http://www.uscg.mil/d1/units/seclis/Chinook/index.htm Chinook, the Coast Guard's tall ship Eagle, and to seventeen http://www.subasenlon.navy.mil/history.htm nuclear-powered attack submarines of the U.S. Navy.
The Norwich-New London metropolitan area (NECTA http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html) includes twenty-one towns http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro_general/List7.txt and 266,618 people http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:VLcHybZQSfcJ:www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metropop/2005/cbsa-01-fmt.xls+site:census.gov+%22Norwich-New+London,%20CT%22+%22266,618%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11. The population of the city of New London is 26,174 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-state=dt&-context=dt&-ds_name=PEP_2005_EST&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=PEP_2005_EST_G2005_T001&-tree_id=805&-redoLog=true&-all_geo_types=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=06000US0901152350&-search_results=04000US09&-format=&-_lang=en. (...) more....

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